My first Lux visitor!

After all of my weekends away visiting friends and other European cities, it was finally my turn to host my first visitor to Luxembourg (first of many, I hope). The honor of this first visit fell to Timmy, my buddy who people might remember from previous trips as ‘The Rumble in London’ and ‘Relaxing in Amsterdam’. While I was very happy to host my first visitor, I was also unsure of what exactly to do and show as I am still not that familiar with all of ‘the spots’ here in Lux, and honestly there really are not many ‘spots’ to begin with. My only idea was to show one of the truly best parts of Lux…the location!

The plan was to have fun in Luxembourg on Friday night (this is us walking back from having fun, and Timmy is indeed quite strong):

Get up on Saturday and make the 25 minute drive just across the German border to Trier for a bit of breakfast.....

and some site seeing of what is a very cool town. I have heard Trier has great shopping and amazing Christmas markets, but it didn’t realize its history. It is actually Germany’s oldest city, and was founded by the Romans in 16 BC and served for a time as the western capital of the Roman Empire. As such, there were a lot of great Roman ruins to go with the charm of a smaller German town.

After spending the first part of the day in Germany, we drove back to Luxembourg so I could show Timmy around during the day and see a bit more of the city:

To cap off the weekend on Sunday, Timmy had the great idea to drive up to Bastogne, a town about 50km away in Belgium. BASTOGNE was a key town in the last great battle of WWII, The Battle of the Bulge. We did not know exactly what we would find there, but we were lucky to discover a cool museum and memorials, including a small monument to the 101st Airborne (of Band of Brothers fame), on a small one lane road between Bastogne and the tiny town of Foy. We even drove back along General Patton’s route through the Ardennes forest to liberate Bastogne from the German siege. Cool stuff.

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Wow, what a great weekend. Partying in Luxembourg, seeing Roman ruins and a cool German town, and finally reliving some WWII history. I know Timmy and I enjoyed it, and I can’t wait for my next visitor. Cheers!