A weekend in the Gibraltar of the North! (Luxembourg!!)

Another weekend, another trip to a new city (and country!). This time we went to Luxembourg for a couple of days and it was pretty good! We took off from where we have been staying in Aachen on Friday morning and headed down through Belgium to Luxembourg. We had booked a hotel on the net to stay for the weekend, so with that programmed in to the GPS we headed straight there. After driving round in a few circles around the city we finally made it. It seems that my GPS didn't know that there was a circus perched right in the middle of the road we wanted to go down.

It is quite a nice city, which was once dubbed the Gibraltar of the North because it was basically one massive fortress. But then in the late 1800's, they declared their neutrality and in return dismantled about 90% of their walls. There are still some small sections there and also some underground tunnels carved in to the rock that the city is perched on.

There are plenty of shops and shopping to be done and Melinda is now sporting a new pair of expensive sunglasses - mission accomplished for her for the weekend!



Looking out from one of the tunnels underneath the original castle


Luxembourg Flags on a remaining portion of the original wall