Well, I'm back from my first weekend trip to Luxembourg and Brussels and everything went well. Our group woke up at 7:00am on Saturday to catch a 9:00 train for Luxembourg where we walked around taking lots of pictures. We found a map of downtown with a walking tour outlined for us at the tourist office and spent until lunch seeing the sights in Luxembourg. My pictures include a World War II memorial, the 14th century city walls that were constructed by the Spanish, as well as the ravine/park that ran underneath the city's bridges. The sights were beautiful but there was a lot of walking and elevation change, so after we had Kebabs for lunch we decided to head back to the train station and catch a train to Brussels.
After a three hour train ride to Brussels with some annoyingly loud french kids next to us, we found our hotel in the heart of downtown. We grabbed lunch at a cafe nearby while listening to a street performing band in the square next to us. We also walked around to the different shops in the area to see what was near us. That night we made sure to stop by the Delirium Cafe (since the brewery wasn't near us), and tasted some of the local micro-brews along with the famous Delirium Tremens. We then bar and club hopped for the rest of the night until we were too tired to continue.
The next morning was rather quick since we do have to get back for school work, but we did stop for a Belgian waffle for breakfast and took some pictures of the major square nearby. Overall it was a fun weekend that wasn't planned out at all and turned out great. With all the things we crammed into a two day weekend it's hard to imagine what our upcoming three, four, and the one five day weekend could be like. Well I'm off to do homework and learn some French for class this week, but I hope you guys enjoy the new pictures I posted from this weekend.
-Brian
