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| the Casemates du Bock and Eglise Saint-Jean |
We spent the night in Luxembourg eating at a Greek restaurant that happened to be close to our hotel. Andrew fell asleep and "forgot" his shoes, so we had to return the next day to get them. In the meantime, he was forced to wear his pool slippers for our morning touring.
Luxembourg City is built where the Alzette River winds back and forth through a steep valley, so fortifications dot the bends, many of them partly restored and open for touring. We didn't pay for the tour but did stroll along the top of the Bock Casements, which have numerous interpretive signs. We also took in the warm cathedral - "warm" in both temperature and decor. It is the first cathedral that we've seen that really looks like a church that is being used, rather than a museum piece that services happen to be held in.
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| arrow points to Patton's grave |
After lunch in the City and buying some supplies at the market, we headed just out of town to the American Luxembourg Cemetery, with graves of those killed in the Battle of the Bulge, and also of General Patton, who passed away soon after the end of the war and wanted to be buried with "his men". His marker is identical to every other cross in the cemetery, with the exception that his letters are painted black. As you'd expect from an American war graves site, it is immaculately groomed with plenty of parking and good accessibility. We then proceeded up-country to the Château de Bourscheid, listed by several websites as the most picturesque and well-preserved of Luxembourg's many ruins. Unfortunately, when we got there, in spite of carefully checking the hours (on the Luxumbourg Tourism and the castle's own websites), the interior was closed, in spite of the posted hours. So we continued on through the Duchy and out to Belgium.
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