A newcomer to Luxembourg who publicly expressed a few complaints about relocating and living here has been roundly rejected by the Council of Expats. The Council, composed of the smuggest transplants who are fiercely proud of the rather mundane fact that they have lived here for a certain number of years, issued the rebuke following […]
Everyone has weird interest in bus driver salaries
Everybody who lives, works, or merely has a tenuous link with Luxembourg has a strong and inexplicable interest in local bus driver salaries, it has been confirmed. “It doesn’t matter what your own salary is, if you have feelings about bus driving as a profession, or if your only link to the country is that […]
Duchy ‘to burn Gromperekichelcher reserves this winter’
Describing it as “sad but necessary” and “reminiscent of the time the country ran out of bottled water and was forced to drink water from the sink for two weeks,” officials have announced that this winter, the country will need to tap into the national reserve of Gromperekichelcher to use as fuel. The decision was […]
Expat confronts loud neighbor instead of first asking expat group for advice
A woman who moved to Luxembourg with her partner two years ago has taken the unusual step of directly confronting a rude neighbor instead of first consulting with an online expat group. For days, Uriella Bodaart and her partner Sam Cogsworth had been kept up late by their neighbor’s nightly habit of playing the “Friends” […]
Late-arriving passengers may now hang from bus exterior
Following revelations that every 3.4 seconds, a Luxembourg City bus departs just as a breathless, desperate passenger arrives, VDL buses will now come equipped with an exterior bar that passengers may grab and hang from as the bus is leaving. “The stainless steel bar will be covered in soft, easy-to-grip foam,” said Serge Farber, head […]
He speaks 5 languages but doesn’t know the word for these in any of them
A Luxembourg man who speaks five languages with a high degree of proficiency has admitted that the flip side is that he does not know the word in any language for certain everyday items. “It’s true that I can speak and understand five languages and get by in two others,” said Gil Martins, who not […]
Mixed nationality people to have own confused stand at International Bazaar
In recognition that many people in Luxembourg have multiple nationalities, mixed origins, or some unlikely combination of both that makes them shrug when people ask where they are from, several such blended-background people have decided to have their own stand at the upcoming International Bazaar. Explaining that they come from the Bewilderlands, which is located […]