On March 1, Luxembourg will become the first country in the world to offer free nation-wide public transport. How are people in the Grand Duchy celebrating this momentous event?
Archives for February 2020
Luxembourg woman wants people to stop smoking where she can see them
A Luxembourg woman is leading a drive to ban smokers from lighting up in places where non-smokers can see them. Karen Bizibahdi, who moved to the Grand Duchy in December, says she was shocked when she first exited the airport and observed a group of people smoking cigarettes in broad daylight while police stood by […]
Officials: speed cameras living, reproducing on their own
Luxembourg officials have confirmed that several mobile speed cameras that escaped from a warehouse last year have begun breeding, and that as many as 100 of the devices are now living on their own. The alarm was sounded on Monday by a motorist who stopped near Kopstal for what she believed was a group of […]
‘Little Switzerland’ indeed full of tiny Swiss
MULLERTHAL – Saying “well, it was rather obvious,” a group of hikers in Luxembourg’s region known as Little Switzerland have discovered hundreds of tiny Swiss people living there. For decades, experts wondered why the relatively low-lying area, home to a couple of hills and a creek, was named after a country that’s renowned for its […]
Man who only speaks English annoyed by people who only speak French
LUXEMBOURG-VILLE – A man who moved to Luxembourg last year under the belief he could easily get by with English has announced that he is officially fed up with dealing with people here who only speak French. “Luxembourg isn’t France or Belgium,” he said at an expat support-group meeting on Monday evening. “It’s very international […]