Breakfast with the seniors at Floreal. Typical continental breakfast where I seem to always indulge in the pack of chocolate-hazelnut spread!
We walked around the property a bit before leaving. It would be a great place to take a family for a couple of weeks in the summer. We needed to bundle up though - it's cold! Maybe I don't want to go back to Canada in the winter after all. I've gotten soft!
We went into town to wander around although it's clear that the town thrives on summer business. Less than half of the shops were open but we managed to find a place for a cup of coffee (2.20€).
Then we went on a wander to find the castle entrance. We failed! With all the twisty, windy roads we thought we were on the right track and then we appeared to be getting further away again. Sigh! Well, at least we managed to explore some more of the town and we were happy to admire it from afar.
We were ready to start the next part of the adventure around noon. We programmed the TomTom to avoid motorways and stuck to pretty side roads on our journey south traversing Luxembourg from north to south. We grooved in Gigi to several great road-trip songs while she got checked out by several other drivers. A green '92 Mini-Cooper gets noticed!
Both of us have obviously spent a long time in the Netherlands. Our jaws were dropped while driving through the countryside. 'Look! A hill!'. 'Wow, what a gorgeous valley!' It was such a pretty drive, especially with the fall colours.
Luxembourg City is surprisingly small. It's really nice though and a pleasant surprise. We checked in to our funky, artsy hotel and then hit the Centrum before the shops closed. We managed to do some damage at the shops in a short time and I bought a great dress for Argentina.
Stephane met us at the hotel around 5:30 and gave us quite the city tour. We learned all about the history from the 10th century until now. Lots of passing the territory backhand forth, details on the history of the Dukes - starting with Guillaume II, the somethingth king of the Netherlands was made after the battle of Waterloo in about 1815 when they revisited the powers of Europe. (sidenote: I'm not sure that info was correctly interpreted by me-I was mostly interested in snapping photos and may have misheard)
Dinner at a delicious Italian restaurant, a wander down past the abbey we could see from the Cornice walk, an excursion through some dark corners to meet up with the path along the river to a brewery that reminded me of the Barley Mill in Calgary. It was a great walk that J and I simply wouldn't have found without Stephane as our tour guide. We hit a brewery and a piano bar and interestingly enough it didn't feel so cold on the walk back to the hotel!
Word of the day: swissish (Stephane)
Phrase of the day: I want to marry you. (Laurent-the-Luxemburgian)
We walked around the property a bit before leaving. It would be a great place to take a family for a couple of weeks in the summer. We needed to bundle up though - it's cold! Maybe I don't want to go back to Canada in the winter after all. I've gotten soft!
We went into town to wander around although it's clear that the town thrives on summer business. Less than half of the shops were open but we managed to find a place for a cup of coffee (2.20€).
Then we went on a wander to find the castle entrance. We failed! With all the twisty, windy roads we thought we were on the right track and then we appeared to be getting further away again. Sigh! Well, at least we managed to explore some more of the town and we were happy to admire it from afar.
We were ready to start the next part of the adventure around noon. We programmed the TomTom to avoid motorways and stuck to pretty side roads on our journey south traversing Luxembourg from north to south. We grooved in Gigi to several great road-trip songs while she got checked out by several other drivers. A green '92 Mini-Cooper gets noticed!
Both of us have obviously spent a long time in the Netherlands. Our jaws were dropped while driving through the countryside. 'Look! A hill!'. 'Wow, what a gorgeous valley!' It was such a pretty drive, especially with the fall colours.
Luxembourg City is surprisingly small. It's really nice though and a pleasant surprise. We checked in to our funky, artsy hotel and then hit the Centrum before the shops closed. We managed to do some damage at the shops in a short time and I bought a great dress for Argentina.
Stephane met us at the hotel around 5:30 and gave us quite the city tour. We learned all about the history from the 10th century until now. Lots of passing the territory backhand forth, details on the history of the Dukes - starting with Guillaume II, the somethingth king of the Netherlands was made after the battle of Waterloo in about 1815 when they revisited the powers of Europe. (sidenote: I'm not sure that info was correctly interpreted by me-I was mostly interested in snapping photos and may have misheard)
Dinner at a delicious Italian restaurant, a wander down past the abbey we could see from the Cornice walk, an excursion through some dark corners to meet up with the path along the river to a brewery that reminded me of the Barley Mill in Calgary. It was a great walk that J and I simply wouldn't have found without Stephane as our tour guide. We hit a brewery and a piano bar and interestingly enough it didn't feel so cold on the walk back to the hotel!Word of the day: swissish (Stephane)
Phrase of the day: I want to marry you. (Laurent-the-Luxemburgian)
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