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 […]
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 […]
Embarrassing: they’ve lived in the neighborhood for 9 months and haven’t even been robbed
A Luxembourg City couple say they have been left feeling alarmed and deeply ashamed following revelations that they are the only ones in their Beggen neighborhood whose home has not been burgled. “All our neighbors’ homes have been broken into at least once, and even the family in the apartment across the street, which to […]
The plastic deposit token is what stands between us and anarchy
Moien, bonjour, and hello. How was your Glühwein, your vin chaud? How do you call it in English? Hot wine? No. Mulled wine, yes, that’s it. Did you enjoy it? You would like to get your deposit back? Wonderful. I will take the mug, but please also give me the – how do you say […]
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