Summer in Europe 2014: The Luxembourg

I was reasonably excited about visiting Luxembourg City. It would mean I've visited the capital city of all three tiny countries in Europe, after visiting Andorra earlier on this trip and Vaduz (the capital of Liechtenstein) on a previous trip.

Luxembourg City is up on Flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/81692166@N05/sets/72157646146172011/

We decided to park a fair way away at a free park and ride and walk to the city centre. I'd picked out a few things for us to see on the way. It was about 40 minutes without a stop to the city from the car park.

Our first stop was at a park called Parc de Merl. It was a green spot in the middle of what was otherwise a concrete jungle, complete with well-kept flower boxes, sunflower beds and a couple of fountains:

Parc de Merl

We then wandered towards the Adolpho Bridge, which supposedly gives you the best view of the city. We arrived to find out it was closed for construction work for a serious stretch of time. In typical European style, they'd built a completely new bridge while the main one was closed for construction. It did have a nice view of the old town:

Old town from the bridge

We wandered along the opposite side of the river for a while, before coming across another bridge back towards Luxembourg's Notre Dame. Inside the church it was quite nice, but nothing we hadn't really seen before - we've been into so many churches by now it's not even funny any more.

We also walked past another manicured flowerbed with some flags, I later found out it was a Remembrance Monument of some description:

Remembrance Monument

After cruising old town for a while, we headed back to the car via a green park that stretches the entire western side of old town. It was quite nice to walk through, and we followed that up with a walk through Grund, which is the park that runs next to a tiiiiiny canal that is at the bottom of a massive valley in Luxembourg.