A Brummie Home and Abroad Guide to Luxembourg City

A Brummie Home and Abroad Guide to Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

I’m not going to beat around the bush. Luxembourg City is tiny. So tiny that you can see it all in half a day, or a full day with a stop in a bar or two to eke out your time. So how did we fill our three full days in Luxembourg?

Mr Fletche and I get our first taster of the public transport system straight off the plane, easily purchasing two short-trip €2 tickets from the machine outside and locating our bus stop. The No 29 bus takes us to within just a couple of minutes walk from our AirBnB on Rue des Trevires. It’s not long before we’re back out of the apartment when we realise we have forgot the vital travel adaptor and have several mobile devices that need charging. Rookie error. We trundle off to the local Monoprix, where we find one universal travel adaptor and plenty of other supplies. Including beer and bananas, which if you’ve read my Croatia blogs you’ll know are our staple holiday requirements. Dinner consists of a gin and tonic from Scott’s Pub and a ham and cheese sarnie in our apartment.

It’s a reasonably bright morning when we emerge from our apartment, although not particularly warm considering we are just one day away from July. Today has been earmarked as a day for exploring all that the capital has to offer. And already we are wondering how we are going to fill the next two and a half days. However, our day looks something like this: ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).
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Guide Name: A Brummie Home and Abroad Guide to Luxembourg City
Guide Location: Luxembourg » Luxembourg
Guide Type: Self-guided Walking Tour (Insider Tips)
Author: Emmalene Fletcher
Read it on Author's Website: https://abrummiehomeandabroad.com/2017/07/11/guide-to-luxembourgcity/
Sight(s) Featured in This Guide:
  • Scott’s Pub
  • Place Guillaume II
  • Place D’Armes
  • Casemates du Bock
  • Le Chemin De La Corniche
  • Parcs de la Petrusse
  • Adolphe Bridge
  • Place de la Constitution

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