Trying my best to catch up to present day diary news but it's not easy, here goes again!
We had high expectations of Luxembourg City and in the first few hours of our arrival it was looking to meet them. Caught a decent train from Trier to Lux where we could secure our bikes easily with a seatbelt AND get a seat. Arrived in Lux City, walked for an hour through the hilly city to our hostel. Was a little early to check-in so locked up bags and spent a good hour taking in the views across the city while walking around some of the historical sights. Even stopped at a free art museum which had a few nice pieces and some art by Turner & Victor Hugo.
That's when life got real painful... Checked into the hostel fine, decided we would wash our clothes using the hostel washer. It was a five-hour ordeal... The only washing machine they owned was also used by the hostels cleaning staff. Someone must have washed with some serious chemicals because it smelt like methylated spirits & paint brushes inside the machine. Not wanting to risk all our clothes in that, we searched online for a Laundromat, closest was 20km away... Went to get a refund from the hostel counter, he offered to wash & dry our clothes in the staff facilities. Naturally we thought this was awesome. 2.5 hours later we thought the clothes would be dry. Super wet. Didn't want to hassle the guy anymore so went and hung all our clothes in our room.
As we were hanging them, I thought they smelt like BO and was concerned enough to mention it to a French guy staying in our room. Turns out it wasn't our clothes at all but the French guy who stank!
During this whole ordeal we were also surfing the net looking for a cheap place to eat but could find nothing, so felt like the city was just trying to destroy us...
Luckily Julie decided to turn down a dodgy strip-joint street on our hunt and we found some cheap Chinese food & a kebab shop for the next night.
Our second day in the city was much more successful. We went to a market to buy some fresh dips & olives for lunch which we chowed down upon on the steps of city hall. Perfectly timed a free organ show at a large church. Went on a walking tour of the city. It's worth noting that the only walking tour we could find was the official tour run by the city's tourist office.
Finished up with some pre-planned kebabs for dinner in strip-town & prepped for our epic bicycle journey from Luxembourg, through Belgium to Germany!
We had high expectations of Luxembourg City and in the first few hours of our arrival it was looking to meet them. Caught a decent train from Trier to Lux where we could secure our bikes easily with a seatbelt AND get a seat. Arrived in Lux City, walked for an hour through the hilly city to our hostel. Was a little early to check-in so locked up bags and spent a good hour taking in the views across the city while walking around some of the historical sights. Even stopped at a free art museum which had a few nice pieces and some art by Turner & Victor Hugo.
That's when life got real painful... Checked into the hostel fine, decided we would wash our clothes using the hostel washer. It was a five-hour ordeal... The only washing machine they owned was also used by the hostels cleaning staff. Someone must have washed with some serious chemicals because it smelt like methylated spirits & paint brushes inside the machine. Not wanting to risk all our clothes in that, we searched online for a Laundromat, closest was 20km away... Went to get a refund from the hostel counter, he offered to wash & dry our clothes in the staff facilities. Naturally we thought this was awesome. 2.5 hours later we thought the clothes would be dry. Super wet. Didn't want to hassle the guy anymore so went and hung all our clothes in our room.
As we were hanging them, I thought they smelt like BO and was concerned enough to mention it to a French guy staying in our room. Turns out it wasn't our clothes at all but the French guy who stank!
During this whole ordeal we were also surfing the net looking for a cheap place to eat but could find nothing, so felt like the city was just trying to destroy us...
Luckily Julie decided to turn down a dodgy strip-joint street on our hunt and we found some cheap Chinese food & a kebab shop for the next night.
Our second day in the city was much more successful. We went to a market to buy some fresh dips & olives for lunch which we chowed down upon on the steps of city hall. Perfectly timed a free organ show at a large church. Went on a walking tour of the city. It's worth noting that the only walking tour we could find was the official tour run by the city's tourist office.
Finished up with some pre-planned kebabs for dinner in strip-town & prepped for our epic bicycle journey from Luxembourg, through Belgium to Germany!
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