Luxembourg & France

The first day of using our Inter Rail passes for train travel we headed from Belgium to Luxembourg.

In Luxembourg we had only 1 day, but did a fair amount. We visited a museum, sat outside 'chocolate house' with a milkshake and local beer watching the guard march outside the Palais du Grand Ducal, as well as generally looking around, seeing a glimpse of Luxembourg's deep valleys and enjoying the sunshine.

 

We were on a budget, so one way that we saved money was having make-shift lunches with food bought cheaply from supermarkets or whatever and putting it together ourselves. Even though this was initially done to save money, it actually became one of my favourite things as it was good yummy food like bread and cheese (yum!), fresh fruit or veg, sometimes some wine, and whatever various things we could find. It became quite fun (and tasty!) to see what we could find and enjoying our little picnics. In all sorts of locations - parks, to trains, all over Europe. It was nice. So Luxembourg is where we had our first picnic on the cheap

We went from Luxembourg to France.
We stayed in Nancy in France, but also took a day trip to Paris (getting up very early so as to make the most of it!). I have been to Paris before with my family. I think this might have been the only place we visited that I'd been to before, but I was quite excited to go there again as it had made a good impression on me the last time, and my mum lived there for a short while, so it interests me.

 

In Paris we did as much as we could for free!

 



Listening to poetry and choral Music at Luxembourg Gardens



 

Some views from L'Arc de Triomphe which we were able to

 

go up for free because we were under 25!

 

 

On the way to our next destination, we also went to Strasbourg on the edge of France, where we again had one of our picnics!

 

 It was a very nice, pretty place to go to. And we also went to a bakery in St. Louis, because why not!

Our next destination was not part of the European Union but still in Europe... Switzerland!