On Saturday, the most skilled thieves in Luxembourg were recognized at a glamorous ceremony that left attendees with a sense of awe – and without their wallets.  Among the audience at the Luxembourg Awards for Excellence in Pickpocketing were many of those who have been victimized over the years. Despite their misfortune, they couldn’t help […]

The world is made up of all sorts of people, and Luxembourg is no exception. Here you find people from all over, and they bring with them the customs, traditions, and habits from their homelands.  Sometimes we might be inclined to judge these people. Why is that woman kneeling in front of the H&M and […]

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 […]

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 […]