Luxembourg residents are quite spoiled with good restaurants, but how far do you have to go to dine at one of the world’s top 50 restaurants? Or maybe there just happens to be one where you’re going on holiday? “The Diners Club World’s 50 Best Restaurants Academy” has just released this prestigious list for 2013. […]
Spring – searching for shadows
28/04/2013 by 1 Comment
Baby green, the darling buds, snowdrops and daffodils, the tweeting (of real birds mind you), that smell in the air unlike any other and that something in the air. The clichés are never more numerous nor more beautiful than in spring. Spring fever hits a large portion of the population, caused by a very healthy […]
Getting off at “Semaphore Station”
21/04/2013 by 1 Comment
There’s something about old abandoned train stations. Nostalgia and a whiff of former glory and buzz. A landmark, a meeting point, and the starting point of a journey. Some get a new life, like the tiny Oetrange station in Luxembourg. Walking up the creaky stairs, there’s a smell of creativity. And if you can’t smell […]
We are European!
12/04/2013 by Leave a Comment
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
A different kind of matchmaker
07/04/2013 by 3 Comments
“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 […]
Don’t sit under the spaghetti tree
01/04/2013 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
Easter by the Med I
24/03/2013 by Leave a Comment
Easter holiday – for many the second word is the most important, and the first one is about chocolate, eggs, chocolate eggs, various animals and the colour yellow, about traditions. For others, the holy week starts today, on Palm Sunday. In France, Palm Sunday is called Branch Sunday, Dimanche des Rameaux. On this day, Catholics bring branches of […]
Day of Happiness
20/03/2013 by 2 Comments
Today is the first United Nations International Happiness Day. The 193 member countries have adopted a resolution to prioritize happiness, and they want your contribution. Today is a good day to start. The UN sees a global attitude change: “People are now recognising that ‘progress’ should be about increasing human happiness and wellbeing, not just […]
Macho HQ
20/03/2013 by 1 Comment
The desperate expat wife is blond enough to know next to nothing about cars. She likes to name her cars, they’re always female, and always small and cute and quite old, but she’ll forget from one time to the next how to open the hood. She’s very protective of her cute little car and doesn’t much care about big […]
90 and still shining
18/03/2013 by Leave a Comment
I was born in 1923 in Luxembourg. My father was Nicolas Joseph Cito from Bascharage. Everybody called him Claus. Claus met a model in Brussels, where he was studying art. When he came back to Luxembourg, wanting me to get solid roots in Luxembourgish ground, he was alone. He was already quite a famous sculptor […]
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