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Day 4 - Luxembourg city

Today we went to explore Luxembourg city in hope of finding some people and the Christmas  markets. 

Parking the campervan was a pain - we tried 2 open air car parks but found they had been taken over by said Christmas markets. There was plenty of multi storeys but the van is way too tall for those. Progress between the car parks was amazingly slow for a city that doesn't have loads of traffic. We could have got across Birmingham quicker.  

We finally found a Park and Ride just out of the city and as we were getting ready to leave the van it started snowing ❄️. We weren't really prepared for that but as it had taken ages to get a parking space, there was no going back.  A quick ride on a very clean bus got us to the Christmas market.

We were all a bit cold and wet by the time we got there so the first stop was vin chaud and a crepe.  This seemed to be a French Christmas market rather than a German Christmas market - perhaps Germany is too close to Luxembourg for a German market to be a novelty??  

Crepes to soothe a hangry toddler 

Then a quick ride on the merry go round. There was only 2 children on the ride and they both wanted to sit on the same thing 😂. And yes, its now sleeting and even colder at this point.


The city was very clean but a bit bland.  The best thing was finding out all public transport is free - you just hop on and off as much as you like, with no faff of buying a ticket. The Park and Ride carpark was free too. Bonus!

I'm still confused by the language in Luxembourg. The buses had notices in French but announcements in German 🤷. Maybe just covering all bases!

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