Following years of insistence by promoters that upscale properties would one day magically transform Luxembourg City’s Gare district, the opening of a pricey boutique has indeed tipped the scales and caused the area’s troublemakers to flee in horror. At precisely 9:59 a.m. on Monday, a business called Chic&Vine that is a cross between a wine […]
A good guy: contractor knocks off 25% of expat exploitation fee
In a show of extreme generosity, a company that was contacted to do some minor roofing work has agreed to knock 25 percent off the standard expat exploitation fee. Damien Fils, co-owner of Fils & Fils, spent around 30 seconds examining a leaky skylight from a distance of six meters, all while texting his wife, […]
Why the police in Luxembourg provide few details about violent crimes
Why the police in Luxembourg provide few details about violent crimes It is often the case that when a violent crime occurs in Luxembourg, the police release little information, leaving you curious, fearful, and possibly titillated. Many residents want to know the official reasons for this withholding of details. We asked around, and here’s what […]
Woman fails to send personalized Happy New Year greeting to all 248 of her friends, family members, and professional contacts
While most people know how to maintain relationships with the most effortless of token gestures, others are walking catastrophes of manners who should probably move to Siberia and find a dark cave to live in. Such is the case with a Luxembourg woman who, two weeks into the new year, still has not managed to […]
The hard times our grandparents warned us about: cleaning lady off sick
What seemed to have been wildly exaggerated stories of a bygone era — tales of hardship, suffering, and deprivation — were actually warnings that went largely ignored by a local man, he admits. Simon Till says he now faces an impossible situation, one he believed only happened to other people in faraway lands hundreds of […]
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