Luxembourg and other daily adventures

So on our other day off from work, the first week in Germany, we decided that it was a good time to go to Luxembourg since it is only an hour train ride from Oberemmel, and also because when else would you go to Luxembourg? It's so small. The noteable claims for Luxembourg are that is has the highest GDP per capita, and from a geography project at UCLA I found out that it has the highest meat consumption per capita as well (makes sense). Therefore, this seems like a dumb vacation destination for a vegetarian cheap girl, but the three of us WWOOF'ers thought that it seemed like fun.

After the train ride we arrived in cold, foggy tiny country. After a stop at un cafe, we figured out that between the three of us, knowing German and French got us halfway to Luxembourgish, which sounds kinda like German and French combined. A lot of people spoke French, which was fun for me because it meant I got to practice a little bit.

Our first stop was the Notre Dame cathedral. You can only go into the lower half, which looked just about like any other church. Then we attempted to walk to the World War II memorial, which is about 2km outside of Luxembourg city center. After walking for 45 minutes, we began to doubt our navigation. Or more accurately: I thought we were doing fine, but then Milena, my new buddy from Hong Kong, thought the fact that I 'felt we were doing fine' was not enough, since we were no longer on the portion of the road that appeared on the map that we stole from the Luxembourg Best Western hotel. Therefore, this was resoved when Wen, from Chicago, went up to a car at one of the few stop signs on this busy road we had been walking on. Luckily for us, Luxembourgers are very nice and all drive nice cars and apparently, don't mind chauffering tourists around. So in asking for directions to the WWII memorial, the older luxembourger gentelman said, "Oh I'll just drive you there!" and so we got there 5 minutes later (i had been right, BTW, with my directions I would like to point out here. But not walking was nice...)

The WWII American cemetary and memorial is very impressive. You walk in through big gates and immediatly see a white tower surrounded by grass.