Our 15th country and 1st Grand Duchy was Luxembourg. We spent two days there and actually found the place really interesting and fun.
The capital city, also called Luxembourg, has two distinct parts. There's the old pretty part of town (pictured below) and the new one with ultra-modern office blocks which are home to over 150 banks. Due to the number of foreign workers in the country, during the week people speak French while on the weekend they speak Luxembourgish.
We didn't spend long in the city but did visit the casemate. This is basically a fortress dug into the rock beneath a castle from which to defend against Burgundians, Habsburgs, Spaniards, Prussians, French or whoever else might be attacking.
We left the city on day 1 for the quiet mountain commune of Echternach.
From there we hiked through the forested area known as Little Switzerland.
We came across several animals that day including red squirrels, snails, loads of mice and even one fox. Amazingly however, the quick brown fox was too cunning to be photographed by Josh. (Pangram Alert!!!)
We also came across the red slug. Before us, no one had ever seen them in Luxembourg (since the country wasn't mentioned in their Wikipedia article). So being the great contributors to human knowledge that we are, we updated the article.
On day two we went to the quaint village of Vianden, home to the appropriately named Vianden Castle.
In the afternoon we did a ropes course in the trees. It was fun but also surprisingly challenging. Yaz lost a contact on one obstacle which sadly could not be rescued. It wasn't all bad though, as from then on she couldn't see how high up she was.
Yaz
Josh
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