Luxembourg - Day 2

Our second day in Luxembourg, the weather was certainly less rainy, although it was still very cold. Since we figured that we might not have many more opportunities to travel to Luxembourg in the near future, we decided to take a tour bus to make sure we saw all that there was to see.




A big advantage of the tour bus is that SJ really seems to enjoy tour buses quite a bit. Since it was the offseason, we also got the chance to have the best seats in the house. An additional advantage of taking the tour bus is that we didn't have to navigate around Luxembourg. I must say that it has to be the most difficult city I have ever been in to try and find your way around. The streets are the narrowest and most windy I have ever seen. On top of that, there is so much construction and detours, that you very often find yourself having to double back the way you came because you "just can't get there from here".



The tour through the old part of Luxembourg is done pretty quickly, but the tour bus also took us out to the new business center of Luxembourg - which was somewhat interesting. Luxembourg is a major financial center - similar to Switzerland - so they have a lot of huge banks where people with more money than I stash their cash. There are also a number of new buildings for the EU, as they have a number of their offices in Luxembourg.


The most interesting stop on the tour is the new modern art museum that is built over the ruins of one of the forts overlooking the valley. Like all things in Luxembourg, it is currently under construction - which means that we couldn't really appreciate the stunning views because they were walled off with chainlink fences, but it looks like it will be impressive in the near future.



After the tour, we stopped by an outdoor market thinking that they, surely, would have some food stands with some Luxembourgish cuisine. Unfortunately, it was mainly blue jeans and overpriced knick-knacks trying to pass themselves off as antiques. So, we ended up at an Italian ice cream shop that served crepes. Well, at least we got closer to Luxembourgish than the chicken cordon bleu at the Turkish restaurant the night before.