Luxembourg Post Card

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Luxembourg news

11 year old got caught driving

Sunday, 19 February, 2017 

An eleven year old boy is reported to have jumped behind the wheel of the family car and driven one hundred and twenty kilometers into Germany because of an argument. Luxembourg police was informed by the family, then police informed Germany patrol to lookout. The eleven year old boy drove to Landstuhl,in the Rhineland Palatinate region of Germany. The German patrol saw a young boy and asked him to stop but the boy ignored him and turned into A6 motorway. Eventually the three police stopped the car on the motorway without causing any incident. At last, he was taken back to Luxembourg.

Train Collision

Thursday, 23 February, 2017 

Rail authorities in Luxembourg said, “We hope to shed more light on last Tuesday's train collision after a second black box was recovered from the wreckage on Monday.” The two black boxes can now be examined by an expert who has come to Luxembourg from Switzerland. Last week, a freight train and a passenger train collided between Bettembourg (Luxembourg) and Thionville, France. The driver of the Luxembourg train died in the crash. The spokesman for the Prosecutor's office, Eippers, said, “I hope to learn what caused the collision within days.” While people agree the dead driver passed the main stop signal without decelerating his train, Thümmel, the president at the railway unit, said, “I don’t want to suggest at this point that the collision had been the result of human error. It is the judiciary that must determine how this happened.”

Princess Stéphanie’s Birthday

Saturday, 18 February, 2017 
Princess Stéphanie was born on February 18,1984 in Belgium, she celebrates her 33rd birthday this saturday. She was the eighth child of Count of Lannoy. Stephanie married to Prince Guillaume, heir to Grand Duke. Princess grew up in Belgium with her seven brothers and sisters.Stephanie studied in University of Louvain. The princess learned Luxembourgish quickly, which she speaks fluently know. Her mother tongue is French.

Luxembourg Journal

The first place we traveled to is Luxembourg. We arrived there at 11:37. Just in time for lunch. We ate at Restaurant Mousel’s Cantine and tried some of their famous cuisine. We ordered Judd mat Gaardebounen and Träipen. Judd mat Gaardebounen is also known as Smoked Collar of Pork with Broad Beans. We asked the chef in German on how to make it. He seemed confused. We realized that he speaks French not German. We asked it in French this time and he kindly told us how to make it. He said, “The pork collar has to be soaked overnight and cooked with leeks, carrots, celery, and cloves for 2 hours. The sauce for the beans are made from chopped onions, bacon cubes, and flour added in meat stock.” The dish is very savory and delicious. We also asked how to make Träipen. The chef said, “The sausage is made from pork, pig’s blood, cabbage, onions, spices, and honey. It is served with homemade applesauce.” We were afraid to try the Träipen at first, but we ordered it because the waitress recommended it to us. To our surprise, the flavor is excellent. Don’t judge food by what it’s made of!

After lunch we decided to go to the national stadium called Stade Josy Barthel. We arrived there at 13:00. It is about 2.7 kilometers from Restaurant Mousel’s Cantine. Stade Josy Barthel is the country’s largest stadium, located in Western Luxembourg city. We wanted to go see a game, but there weren’t any. We got some information from a worker there. The worker there told us the history on how the stadium got its name. The worker explained, “This stadium is named after Josy Barthel. The country’s only official Olympic gold medalist of men’s 1500 meter. Sports in Luxembourg aren’t focused on one, national sport. It encompasses a variety of sports. Some famous athletes are: Marc Girardelli, an alpine skier, who won World cup champion five times between 1985 to 1993, Sylvie Hülsemann, the world’s water skiing champion in 1961, Nicholas Frantz, a cyclist, winner of the 1927 and 1928 Tours de France.” After the short lecture, we went to Hôtel Le Place d'Armes and checked in. That hotel is a 4.5 star hotel. It is very luxurious.

We are at the hotel when we heard a language that we never heard before. We ask the clerk in German and he said that this language is called Luxembourgish. It is a Franconian language. Countries that lies beside them, like, Belgium, France, and Germany also use this language. The clerk also said that Luxembourgish is mainly spoken, not a written language. French is the written language, and German is usually the first language taught in school.The 3 official languages in Luxembourg are French, German, and Luxembourgish. We learned Luxembourgish quite easily. Since we already knew German, French, Finnish, Greek, Russian, English, Mandarin, and Italian, it wasn’t that hard to learn a new language.

About Us

Hi! We are Yoyo and Yu-Shin. We love to travel! We traveled to Egypt last year, and around Taiwan the year before that. This year we decided to travel to Europe. Europe is a very big continent. In order to decide where to go, we used popsicle sticks to pick four countries. We picked Luxembourg, Finland, Cyprus, and Russia. We never even heard one of the countries before. We traveled to each country in the order we picked. We searched up some tourism spots and elements of culture before we left Taiwan. Our blog is about the elements of culture (we took notes during the trip), the major current events happening, and the post card we bought to send to our friends.