Snow and taxis

Last week I was in Luxembourg for working purposes and I cannot find a better way of summarizing what I did than with the title of this post. When I landed on Monday night, we were in the middle of a snow storm and the airport was completely white. That is the explanation of the snow. The explanation of the taxis is because in less than 24 hours I took six: from home to the airport in Frankfurt, from the airport in Luxembourg to the hotel, from the hotel to the meeting, from the meeting to the city centre, from the city centre to the airport, and from the airport in Frankfurt to home.

But there are more to write about this intense day in Luxembourg. First of all, the place of my meeting was in the third floor of a modern building which in the lower floor has... a shopping centre! I cannot believe it, but it is true, a shopping centre with Auchan.

The historical centre of Luxembourg is nice for walking as it lays in some hills and it still has part of the ancient wall which protected the city from invaders. Maybe as a consequence of the slopes, I could not see a single cyclist in Luxembourg (something quite common in Germany). The other reason behind this fact is that everybody in Luxembourg is rich enough as to own a car. The cathedral is also remarkable, although when one has visited Cologne's cathedral, everything else seems to be quite simple indeed.

Luxembourg ressembles in a certain way Andorra, as both of them seem to have been isolated places in the past, ideal for smugglers, which now make their living dressed with expensive suits and working in banks. I could walk along the headquarters of Fortis Bank (je, je, je) and I watched some advertisement in the airport of a Icelandic bank (je, je, je, again).