Day 29: Thu 14 Jul – Metz to Luxembourg to Metz

19 to 29 deg

Up early and caught the train to Luxembourg for €12 one way and €11 to get back. The train was 10 minutes late which is unusual here apparently. Took about 1h:40m to get to Luxembourg and again, my first impressions were not good. However, the more I wandered and the more I saw, the more I was impressed. Old, 13-14^th Century walls and buildings in the old part of the city and in the “young” part, there were churches built in the 17^th Century. There are huge cliffs/walls right near the city centre with gardens/trees etc in the low part, which looks like an ancient river bed. Lovely city centre with outside dining areas and not that expensive (by European standards at least). Looks like eating out at lunch time is a favourite pastime. There were lots of tourists.

Headed back to the hotel with some bananas and nectarines on board (as fuel). Although nice I don’t think I would recommend Luxembourg to anyone.  However, it was worth a day trip seeing I was this close to it. 

Dinner was a salad and soft serve from McDonalds. Because it was still in the “Bastille” Day season, idiots were letting off fireworks which echo off the narrow alley ways and make sleeping very difficult. And they weren’t small bangs either; at 2 in the morning they sounded like bombs going off.

Luxembourg

Ancient gardens

Garden from the 1400s

14th Century Castle

Flag station

Metz