We are European!

Hundreds of happy kids celebrating the 60th anniversary of the European School with a flashmob at Auchan today, singing and dancing to Stevie Wonder’s “Happy Birthday” Photos by Unni Holtedahl, April 2013

Luxembourgish Schools Support Group

Wherever you live, whether it is in your own country or abroad, choosing a school for your child is a big decision.  But in Luxembourg, when you are faced with the fact that your child will not only be learning in one language but three, it can seem like snorkelling through a bog backwards. How […]

Find your place

A quick DIY for your next dinner party: I got this idea from a friend who went on a wine trip to Burgundy. So easy to do; just cut the wine cork in two and make a little cut on top to place the name tags.   Text and photos: Ann-Kristin Øvreeide, April 2013

Lëtz Create – Valérie Conrot

Each month, Miranda van den Heuvel talks to creative people in Luxembourg and says “look, Luxembourg is creative! Here’s how and where!” The April talk is with “la denicheuse”, Valérie Conrot. 1. What is CREATIVITY? Creativity is the gift or the capacity to make a rather ordinary thing or idea extraordinary. It is to add a touch […]

A different kind of matchmaker

“There are no poor people in Luxembourg.” Have you heard this blinkers statement before? After starting Givingatlux, Rute Vendeirinho received an e-mail from a Luxembourgish woman stating exactly this. Rute doesn’t have blinkers on, and she knows already, after only a few months of living in Luxembourg, that this statement is not true. Shortly after […]

Out to get you

Moving. It’s one of the more stressful situations in one’s life. Plenty of preparation goes into organizing, selling, and throwing out some of the past. Simultaneously, you’re searching, restructuring and planning for the future. It’s downsizing on one side; upgrading on the other. That all occurs before the move takes place. The actual relocation has […]

Don’t sit under the spaghetti tree

The Museum of Hoaxes has made a top 100 list of April Fool’s Day hoaxes. This is the top 3, the rest you’ll find here. The Spaghetti Tree (1957) The respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, there was a […]