I took a stroll through town

[Stormlight]

The weather was particularly lovely Friday, so I took a stroll through the old town during my lunch break. I had my iphone with me so I took a few pictures:

The palace of our most exalted ruler:

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and various other sights:

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One of the main landmarks of the city: the "Red Bridge" (d'Roud Bréck)

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[Nullifidian]

I looked as hard as I could, but those photographs are too low-res to detect a lost teddy bear in them. :sadcheer:

[Stormlight]

Yeah, I know. The iphone camera sucks. :sadcheer:

[Qingdai]

Pretty.

[Cliche Guevara]

What a lovely town! Is it real?

It kind of reminds me of here, only yours is much better:

http://www.hotelrooms.com/image/activities/2550LIN3A.jpg


It's very, very clever if you made it by yourself!


:tweak:

[Stormlight]

:glare: :shakecane:

[Cliche Guevara]

:giggle:

[Stormlight]

Damn foreigners! :unglare:

[BrotherMan]

:sadcheer: Everybody else beat me to the lolsmallcountry jokes. :sadcheer:

What a lovely old town, though. :aww:

[Shelli]

:thankee: for the :snapshot:

What a quaint, pretty, city/town. :=)

[JoeP]

Are there any parts where the buildings aren't all squished together like that?

:P

[Stormlight]

It really is, yes. And it's only a few minutes from my office. Also, and more embarrassing is the fact that after all these years, I have actually never been in this part of town. :facepalm:

[Stormlight]

Are there any parts where the buildings aren't all squished together like that?

:P

No, there's no room for such extravagance!

:shakejoep:

[livius drusus]

What a charming city. I love all the trees, too.

[Stormlight]

BTW, the red bridge on the picture:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2555/3996560814_5f197f7475.jpg

used to be the number one suicide spot in the country. The people who have houses underneath were not all that thrilled to regularly find dead people in their gardens, apparently.

[JoeP]

:scared:

So by implication the number one suicide spot in the country is now somewhere else?

[Stormlight]

Obviously. I don't know where, though.

[Miisa]

So, it doesn't divert you to another spot instead, then?

[Stormlight]

:lol:

[ITSOZAZ]

beautiful place you live in...thanks for the photo tour.

[Pinecone]

How pretty! It's nice your little country is so elevated so you can look out at the real countries. :excited:
You didn't say though ... which of the hills belongs to which other country?

[LadyShea]

That red bridge is so ugly compared to the lovely older structures.

[Stormlight]

Hey! We are proud of that bridge! We had on our money (before the Euro, that is).

[Stormlight]

beautiful place you live in...thanks for the photo tour.

I don't actually live in the capital. Prices are ridiculous here.

[Stormlight]

How pretty! It's nice your little country is so elevated so you can look out at the real countries. :excited:
You didn't say though ... which of the hills belongs to which other country?

:glare:

[Miisa]

I don't actually live in the capital. Prices are ridiculous here.
Oh, which building is the capital?

[Stormlight]

:muttercircle:

[godfry n. glad]

I enjoyed the 'antique' feel of the part of your area you strolled. It's the collection of tall skyscrapers in the distance that I found....fainting disturbing, in that they seem to be 'hovering', or 'lurking at a discreet distance', as though they were waiting to pounce.

I, too, wondered whether this was another of those cleverly constructed miniature villages at which the people in the nether regions are so adept, so I was glad it was mentioned as a suspicion.

So...In what country are the tall buildings in the distance?

Thanx for the pix.

[Watser?]

So...In what country are the tall buildings in the distance?

That would be Portugal.

[Stormlight]

:shakemonkey:

The taller buildings are the European institutions.

[LadyShea]

You may be proud of that bridge, but the bridge with the pleasant arches kicks it's ass.

[Miisa]

"European institutions"? Like imperialism, war and only slightly pink socialism?

[Stormlight]

Yup, that's the one. :unnod:

[Stormlight]

You may be proud of that bridge, but the bridge with the pleasant arches kicks it's ass.

It's a symbol of the steel industry which dominated our economy in the days of its construction in the 1960's. The largest steel company employed 25000 people back in those days. Luxembourg had a total population of merely 350000 back then.

[Crumb]

You may be proud of that bridge, but the bridge with the pleasant arches kicks it's ass.

It's a symbol of the steel industry which dominated our economy in the days of its construction in the 1960's. The largest steel company employed 25 people back in those days. Luxembourg had a total population of merely 350 back then.
:fixed: I think your 0 is stuck. :yup:

Nice pics though. :D

Luxembourg is small jokes never get old. :giggle:

[Stormlight]

:brooding:

I'm glad, btw, that you all like the pictures.

[Sock Puppet]

Oh, yes, the pictures were lovely. I'm grateful to you for posting them, and to your countrymen for moving to the other side of the street so you could take them without obstruction.

[Stormlight]

:shakeff:

[BrotherMan]

Now I really want to move there. I could be somebody! Not just a number or a blank face! Everyone could know my name! I could invite everyone over for cake and tea! You don't mind do you, Stormy?

[Ymir's blood]

I remember reading about Luxembourg as a child and thinking it a wonderful place. The fact that it was a duchy always made it seem like a gateway (or perhaps connection?) to the past, a good thing for me.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

:faint:

[Stormlight]

Now I really want to move there. I could be somebody! Not just a number or a blank face! Everyone could know my name!

That's one of the problems living in a small country. There are 500,000 people living here. 63% of them are Luxembourgish; that's roughly 300,000.

There's no keeping a secret in this place. :littlebird:

[Deadlokd]

Does Belgium mind that you've built most of your capital on their territory?

But seriously, lovely city. Thanks for sharing.

[Stormlight]

Belgium? Belgium stole most of our country back in 1839!

Never forget!
:luxembourger:

[Doctor X]

I looked as hard as I could, but those photographs are too low-res to detect a lost teddy bear in them. :sadcheer:

:orly:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u264/DoctorX_photos/Smilies/Pedo-Bear.gif

--J.D.

[Stormlight]

Now that I think of it: Is the title of the thread even correct English? Shouldn't it be "I took a stroll around town" or something? :tard:

[Qingdai]

I think it's correct, but I speak American English, the bastard off spring of English.

[BrotherMan]

Hello? It's Stormlight. He's part storm and part light! He can stroll through town if he wants! And besides, we know most of it is false fronts, like a movie set.

[Stormlight]

:lol:

[Al Terego]

Now that I think of it: Is the title of the thread even correct English? Shouldn't it be "I took a stroll around town" or something? :tard:To stroll around your town, wouldn't you have to have a passport?

[Miisa]

To stroll around your town, wouldn't you have to have a passport?
No, thanks to the Schengen agreement a passport is no longer necessary.

[Watser?]

Even before that there was the BeNeLux that would make sure Stormlight didn't need a passport to use his outhouse in Belgium.