Luxembourg

We decided to add another country under our belt, so have left France for a couple of days and crossed the border into Luxembourg.  We didn't spend particularly long in this country - we based ourselves in Luxembourg.

Pretty canyons

 Quite a small country - about 1% the size of New Zealand land wise, and about 10% of the population.  Yet it is incredibly wealthy - it is one of the banking capitals of the world, and thousands of Europeans come in every day to work in the city from France, Germany and Belgium.  And being wealthy it is very expensive - it was cheaper for us to drive to Germany and have dinner there one night (in a lovely little town called Trier where we went to a Schnizel restaurant:  Nick had Schnizel, I had goose for the first time!  Delish, served with roasted chestnuts, potato dumplings and red cabbage!)

Nick's dinner - old school schnizel

And mine - roast goose!

Anyway, back to Luxembourg.  It's a city that is built around a set of canyons which provide natural defences for the city, which its human inhabitants have then made excellent use of, digging into the stone work.  Unfortunately with the weather now getting colder, these were closed to the public, but still the cliffs provide amazing views, and it's great to walk through the canyons with the bridges above you and the canyon walls running up.

Probably worth a couple of days exploring - at this time of year, like lots of places we've visited, it's stunning with the Autumn leaf colouring, but you do have to be careful, it can be rather cold and gray.  Although we were lucky.

Back into France again next!