Thursday morning I woke to find the sqaure full of booths as the weekly market came to town. Everything you can imagine was for sale. 

That night everything was open late so I could find some Vitamin I gel and wander around. Many of those wall to wall houses have lovely backyards with full gardens and the town has this huge rose garden.

There is also a memorial to WW2 in which the hands of the dutch couple are tied - this may explain why I was told not to use German.

Dinner was at this Chinese-Indoneasian place and was quite good if very different from both home and China. Shrimp sate and a tipan (sizzling platter) of three meats and veggies. And they had Two Deer!

The next day I spend time at work and also got to admire the fruit tree filled company garden with  grape vines, plum trees, apples, pears...

Then my hostess dropped me at the rail station so I could first go to Leige, where I saw the catherdral Luc and his wife took Connie and me to see so many years ago as well as the bridge into the city.

I grapped lunch at a little cafe in the station, treated myself to a single Leondias chocolate and caught the train to Luxumborg.

The trip was a beautiful ride, even with the coach being filled with high schoolers. They all got off in Trois Pont and it was quite lovely and quiet from there. The landscapes looked like what Swiss countryside is in the American imagination and I managed to finish analyzing some data for a project in the quiet. We got into Luxumbourg a little late and I went walking.

Luxumbourg is built around this canyon with a river at the bottom and a lot of the canyon has been turned into gardens and parks.
 

 

I saw that, the cathedral to Our Lady, and got to people watch. It looks like an expensive city from the locals.

 

After dusk started to turn to night, I found a place for dinner and had a very nice meal with a good local wine.

Por Fin Gourmand above: risotto with mushroom and sausage, local fish with a salsa and veggies, and white chocolate mousse with mango "soup" and apple "noodles".  This cost me a bear barbell complex for 20 minutes AMRAP after I got back

 

Then I headed back to work out and crash so I could make my 5 am train for Strasborg. The tower overlooking the river is lit at night.

 

Photos will be uploaded tomorrow have been added on 10-2-2010.