Luxembourg

To Luxembourg City from the French border, is only a 20 minute drive, so we arrived quite early and found a campground to use as a base from which to explore the city itself. The weather gave us little chance to venture out so we sorted our washing and planned a walking tour of the city for the following day.

The Grand Palace

The weather cleared enough for us to take a couple of hours exploring the old city and in a rare stroke of luck, the rain held back until we were safely inside a bistro ordering lunch.

The rain eased just in time for us to enjoy our walk around Luxembourg's balcony.

The next day we headed towards Echternach, near the German border, stopping at General Patton's grave at the Luxembourg American cemetery on the way.

Echternach is a beautiful little town surrounded by thick forest and a cobweb of popular walking trails...

One of the buildings in the town square

The view back to Echternach from the E1 trail

We found a campsite near the start of a trail and set off on a beautiful four hour walk through the forest.

The entrance to the Labyrinthe...

Flora...

Fauna...

The next morning the weather again turned sour although we were able to admire the Chateau de Bourscheid through the fog before heading to the Belgium border.