Luxembourg - the Country

February 25: This Saturday, we visited Luxembourg. We got up early in the morning since it is supposedly about three hours south of Louvain-la-Neuve by train. As a sidenote, that's further than Paris or London. Anyways, we hopped on the train and took it to the last stop in Belgium. From there, we caught a local train into Luxembourg city. It's kind of confusing because Luxembourg is the province in Belgium that borders the country of Luxembourg, who's capital is also Luxembourg. Ayayay.

Anyways, from there, we decided to grab lunch at the grocery store since the city is so ridiculously expensive to get to. Then, we wandered for a while and came across Notre Dame de Luxembourg, where we took a little tour of the inside. We stopped and just sat in the sanctuary for quite a while. This church had an amazing pipe organ, and even more amazing stained glass. When we were rested and content, we headed out to see the rest of the city.

We thought there was supposed to be a museum pass, but when we got to the art museum, the lady told us there was nothing like what we were looking for. We left because that wasn't really the museum that we wanted to see, and decided to stop at the Nature museum along the way to the Bank Museum (which we really wanted to see). Of course that museum is like the children's science museum, so we spent the day playing with displays for children. When we left, we came across a playground. To continue the trend of the day, we were sure to play for a while before leaving to go to the bank museum, but it was unfortunately already closed.

Instead, we walked through the city quite a bit, saw the royal palace, the river, and some other local sites. Then, instead of seeing any more official sites, we decided to enjoy the sunny weather and sit outside at a cafe for a while. When we finished eating, we hopped the train for another 3 hours back home.