It’s been a year since I moved to Luxembourg, and only now do I feel comfortable sharing my experience with renting an apartment. Everything started off great. My first day here, I called a real estate agency and said that I really wanted something near Kirchberg. Just an hour later I was getting shown a […]
Luxembourg couple unaware cleaning lady despises them
An expat couple who pay a cleaning woman the bare minimum to make biweekly visits to their home have convinced themselves that she enjoys working for them — despite that they leave their house in such a filthy state that it could be mistaken for an actual pigsty where all the other farm animals hang out […]
Speedy: expat couple befriend locals after only 12 years
In what is being cited by integration officials as a new record, an expat couple has managed to forge a genuine friendship with a Luxembourgish couple after only 12 years. Andrew and Sarah Campbell, who moved to Luxembourg more than a decade ago, say they were shocked by the speed and ease with which they […]
French colleagues held hostage by anglophone
Several French employees of a Luxembourg marketing firm were held hostage for more than 20 minutes on Thursday after an anglophone joined their conversation. “Attendez, just a second, wait, er, how do you say, wait, I got it, je suis d’accord,” the anglophone said in response to what she thought was a discussion about typical […]
Fearless band of expats venture into working-class neighborhood bar
LUXEMBOURG-VILLE — Amid battle cries and hastily composed text messages bidding goodbye to loved ones, a group of brave expats ventured into a neighborhood working-class bar. The expats, who normally only go to trendy pubs where servers speak flawless English accented with just the right amount of irony and automatically slide you an imported IPA […]