A Week in Luxembourg

I have just returned from a week in Luxembourg visiting JC and his parents.  Luxembourg, like most other countries, is operating under Covid rules so we were limited with what we could do.  We did however manage a few walks on dry days. 

One day we headed to Little Switzerland and walked around Mullenthal.  Our route took us through woodlands with wonderful rock outcrops and startlingly bright moss green patches.  

It also did a fine line in fungi.

Our route not only took us past some amazing rock formations, but through them!

We then passed the largest waterfall in Luxembourg.  I present to you The Schiessentümpel Waterfall.

On New Year's Day we went for a stroll by the Mossel.

I do so love a water level.  So much so that these are the only photos I took!

The next day we walked what is dubbed one of the most amazing walks in Luxembourg.  Manternach Fiels, also known as a Dream Loop, covers a 10 km stretch by rivers, through woodlands and with wonderful views around Manternach.  It was a nice walk, indeed, if not super muddy underfoot. 

The first muddy part was through a woodland which, once again, did a superb line in fungi.

Then across a river, up past some wonderful rock formations, and down to another stream on a muddy footpath.  

We had a slight pause here whilst I waited for the photographer.

Then it was up through some muddy wood and around a few fields.  We dropped down through an ancient terrace vineyard and back through a muddy trial down to the river where there was an abandoned water mill.

It was a lovely walk, but I certainly wouldn't rate it as one of the best in Luxembourg.  Little Switzerland has some far more amazing ones.  And did I say it was muddy?

The rest of our time was spent popping in on relatives, random shopping, a hard jigsaw (which I sadly had to abandon) and prepping for our trip home - the paperwork for testing, entering France, leaving France, entering Britain etc was pretty extensive!

We drove home on Thursday, 4 countries in one day.  First off was the Luxembourg/Belgium border.

Then heavy rain followed by snow in Belgium!

The French border was hard to spot - I'd hoped for a flag or two but it was just a sign which we nearly missed.

Then it was Calais for the Eurotunnel.  As we drove towards the border control, we saw the long queue for the British passports and switched to the EU queue which was a lot shorter.  Now I'm wondering if it's a problem that we went in and out of Europe on different passports.  I doubt it.  

The drive back on the UK side was uneventful, which is how journeys should be.  We arrived home after 11 hours door to door which isn't too bad at all :-)