Since they were children, most Luxembourgers have heard stories about a scary creature who wears a navy blue uniform and mysteriously appears on buses demanding tickets from every passenger. Those who fail to produce a ticket, the story goes, are forced to pay an awful fine. While this spooky tale seems right out of a […]
Anthropologists discover isolated Luxembourg village where inhabitants drive 5-year-old Audis
Calling it a discovery that “fundamentally changes our understanding of Luxembourgers,” a pair of anthropologists have found a village in the north that is so isolated that its inhabitants still drive Audis from five years ago. The researchers from the Center for Ethnographic Studies set out in search of the village last week after being […]
Help! We’re new here and our neighbors won’t smile at us
We didn’t do anything wrong, so why are they treating us like we did? By Wise Expat Sage Dear Wise Expat Sage, Six months ago, my husband and I moved to Luxembourg with our two children. No matter how many times I’ve tried to be friendly to my neighbors, no one ever smiles at us. […]
Confirmed: Luxembourg actually in Germany
Prompting a series of rather clumsy admissions from politicians, diplomats, and historians alike, an old friend from home has asserted that Luxembourg is actually in Germany. “Hey, long time no see, where are you living now?” the friend, whom you hadn’t seen in nearly 10 years, said when you saw him at a bar during […]
Archeologists: current Luxembourg roadworks actually started 6000 years ago
LUXEMBOURG-VILLE — Archaeologists working in the capital have uncovered artefacts that suggest many of the city’s most aggravating road construction projects currently underway have been going on since the end of the Neolithic Era. Among the artefacts found in a dig near the Bierger-Center — just one of a dozen sites currently being excavated — […]