You Might Wake Up in Luxembourg

The view from the Pont Grande-Duchess Charlotte

Luxembourg is small.  So this post will be brief.

I woke up in Trier.  I will explore it more tomorrow, but this is an interesting place.  Off to Luxembourg for today.

And Luxembourg became the 27th country that I have visited.

The train station is located to the south of the City of Luxembourg, which is not the totality of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

It was a cold wet rainy miserable day and I brought no umbrella, nor suitable rain gear.  So that means head to the most important site.  Not the palace.  Not the cathedral.

The funicular.  The ride is brief and the funicular is quite contemporary.  But it is a funicular and, therefore, it must be ridden.

The funicular is north of the main area of the City of Luxembourg, connecting the neighborhoods of Pfaffenthal and Kirchberg.  What made this funicular so awesome, despite the short ride and its gentle slope, is that is was free.

This is the Pfaffenthal neighborhood.

Rue du Pont (translation: Bridge Street) over the Alzette River.

That is the Eglise Catholique et Roumaine-orthodoxe Saint Matthieu.  It is not one of the churches ordinarily in the Luxembourg guide books.

This is a bridge as viewed from a bridge.  And this is the back alleys of Pfaffenthal, in the City of Luxembourg.

Lunch was at the Madeira, a local Portuguese restaurant.  Thank Goodness I was wearing my Benfica hoodie!

I had the duck and rice, which was good.  But the temperatures were dropping, the rain was not letting up, I was not appropriately attired for cold and rainy weather.  So it was off to Trittenheim, back in Germany, to view this bend in the Mosel River.

Where you see green is planted in wine grapes.  For your Mosel Valley Reislings.