I visited Luxembourg in early 2019 as part of an extremely long detour on the way back from the UK to Denmark after Christmas. Visiting Luxembourg was definitely worth the extra kilometres.
We visited Luxembourg City, which must be one of Europe’s most dramatic capital cities and is split between two distinct, almost unconnected levels. Complete with a fort, palaces and meandering river within a gorge, Luxembourg City has a very old-world Europe feel.
This traditional impression of Luxembourg City is starkly punctuated by visiting the new glistening glass district of Kirchberg. Kirchberg houses the European Parliament, European Investment Bank and European Court of Justice. On a personal note, nothing gave me more pleasure than visiting these wonderful institutions while my own countries xenophobic premier was doing everything she could to strip me of my European citizenship. Yep, I’m still not over Brexit.
Luxembourg City
Anyway, back to Luxembourg. Luxembourg also has excellent thermal baths, although as we learned you can’t buy swimming shorts anywhere in Luxembourg City in early January.
One thing we did get to try though was Luxembourg’s excellent Crémant de Luxembourg - a delicious sparkling wine. I think it may be my absolute favourite sparkling wine. What’s even better is you can go out and drink whatever you like because all of the public transport in Luxembourg City is absolutely free. If you don’t want to get too drunk though, I’d recommend trying the steak tartare. It’s truly excellent.
Steak tartare in Luxembourg
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