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Love the photos in town and especially of the Palais Grand. Sounds like a great day with the sites in town. Interesting , that you noticed what the guard was doing at the Palais! Too bad you missed a photo op on that!
I'm really sad I didn't get that.
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Love the elephants and in my town in CT there are many of these colored elephants and other animals in the down town area. Kind of interesting and brightens things up I suppose!
Sunday 8 September part three: can we see another back step?
We headed across the road to have a look at the view down to the battlements beneath. We could just about see the rivers Alzette and Petrusse, which flow through this gorge. I assume that once upon a time they carved out what you see here, but its hard to imagine.
I would not like to be going up those!
And because I told Mark he wasnt happy enough in the last couple of photos, heres what I got third time:
There were also some amazing engineering projects here. Look at these bridges!
The formal gardens here were also pretty spectacular, although we werent going to go down to see them, as that wouldve meant a hike back up.
We headed into the Place de la Constitution, which is where wed tried to find parking earlier, and got some photos of the Gelle Fra. This is a statue on a tall granite obelisk, and is a monument to those who died in the First World War.
We wandered back past the cathedral
and headed through some of the old town again.
I wanted to go back and have one final look at the palace, in the hope that I might see the soldier do his back step routine again. Sadly he didnt, but we did get to see the changing of the guard, although in truth there wasnt much to see certainly nothing like in London or Monte Carlo.
From there, we wandered back towards the car park .
.pausing to admire the view over the city again. We couldnt believe how much the mist had cleared away. As Mark said, it was as if the weather couldnt make up its mind what it wanted to do. In some parts of the sky, there were dark ominous clouds, whereas you looked elsewhere, and you saw the sun doing its best to peek through.
We felt a few spots of rain as we headed back to the car, but nowhere near as bad as first thing. We really had lucked out with the weather this trip.
We paid our 1.50 for parking (c. $2), and headed out of the city
On the way out, we saw the local football stadium. I suspect this will be where the Dutch Under 21 team, who were staying at our hotel, will be playing on Monday
Difficult terrain if you really wanted to see the gardens and other parts of the city! It looks beautiful, though, from your vantage point. If you have time when you're in Athens next summer you can see their changing of the guard ceremony in front of the Parliament building. I can't help but get the giggles when I watch them. I think John Cleese saw this before writing the "Ministry of Silly Walks" skit for Monty Python.
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More beautiful pictures of the city. I never realized just how beautiful Luxembourg is! I agree with you, there is no way I would be walking down those stairs!!
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Difficult terrain if you really wanted to see the gardens and other parts of the city!
I'm glad we didn't want to, given that...
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It looks beautiful, though, from your vantage point. If you have time when you're in Athens next summer you can see their changing of the guard ceremony in front of the Parliament building. I can't help but get the giggles when I watch them. I think John Cleese saw this before writing the "Ministry of Silly Walks" skit for Monty Python.
Oh cool - I don't know if we'll get the chance, as I think we'll be on a guided tour, but I'll keep it in mind.
You have traveled in and out of so many spots I don't know how you can keep track of what country you are in.
Trust me, over here it's no different to driving through different states, it's just that in continental Europe, you can travel into different countries without even realising it. Britain is an exception, as is Switzerland...
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Beautiful photos, even with the cloudy skies. At least Mark is pretending to enjoy himself. And who needs to use stairs to see the flowers below when you've got that zoom lens, right??
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Looking down over the battlements provided you all some beautiful views, but I don't know if I'd want to climb down and then back up all those steps. The bridges are such neat architecture, too.
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