Day 20: Luxembourg and on to Paris!

After an interesting evening that consisted of waking at 4:00am to the Airbnb unit’s radiator springing a leak and dumping water all over the floor, none of us could really get back to sleep. We snacked on baguettes and brie for breakfast, packed up our stuff while dumping water from the pan under the radiator every 30 min, and our girl found us a place to try for lunch.

We made a reservation at a restaurant called Batucada, which served Brazilian food. It was phenomenal! I had a beautiful vegetarian meal with a great Brazilian sauce, Marc and our girl each had steaks, and our boy had a seafood dish. All of them were delicious.

Here is a photo of my plate:

Next up had seemed like a good idea at the time…set our reserved train for early evening so we could have almost 2 whole days in Luxembourg before going back to Paris.

Well, it was and it wasn’t…in hindsight I should’ve scheduled our train for a few hours earlier, but who knew the Capitol would be mostly shut down on a Sunday?

After doing the “hop on, hop off” bus tour of Luxembourg to keep warm while killing a few of the hours before our train, we found out why…~90% of the folks who live in Luxembourg are Catholic.

But the bus tour itself was pretty cool, and we probably wouldn’t have chosen it otherwise. We learned about the Luxembourg financial district, how it’s the financial center of the EU, and got to see other landmarks in the city.

Here are photos taken from the bus during our tour around Luxembourg City:

Here is the 4th Eiffel Tower our family has seen, and the 3rd on this adventure:

And I found out why I hadn’t been able to locate this building in any list of Luxembourg castles. It’s not a castle – it’s actually owned by a bank, along with the similarly styled building across the street: