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 […]
French host going to quietly throw out wine you brought
A French friend and his Italian wife who have invited you to dinner are going to thank you for the great bottle of red wine you brought before placing it near the sink and pouring it out prior to the night’s end. The friend, who has a good nose for wine and who has learned […]
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 […]
Embarrassing: this Bierger-Center employee only speaks six languages
LUXEMBOURG-VILLE — A native and resident of Kehlen who works as a civil servant in the capital has admitted to suffering from “deep feelings of inadequacy” and worries that he is “linguistically challenged” when in the presence of colleagues who speak more languages than him. Marco Pohlen, who works in the Bierger-Center, says that recently […]
Registering for INL course a Kafkaesque nightmare
Trying to sign up for a language course via the Institut National des Langues (INL) website is very similar to reading a story by Franz Kafka and then, when the story becomes too horrifying to bear and you close the book, you realize you cannot because you are now the ill-fated protagonist and there is […]
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