Friday, June 26, 2009

Luxembourg- where people shit gold bricks and then spend them.

Next stop Luxembourg. This was kind of a random stop on our trip but we fit in there and just went for it in Luxembourg city. when we got there we had a bit of trouble finding our hostel. We were wandering around ( I was chatting on the phone with Heather not really helping) and this greasy long haired boy came up to us and asked if we were looking or the hostel. We said yes and apparently so was he- even though he had stayed there the night before and was just out for the day he couldn't remember where it was. Anyways we wandered around this place and eventually found the place. I realize by this time that we had not introduced ourselves and went to do so. Well this person introduced them selves as "Fishy" and I knew from then on I was avoiding this dude like the plague. Allie told me later on that his name was quite fitting because before she even knew it she was going to refer to him as sour patch because of his aroma.

So we settled in to the place then went to find some dinner. Well in Luxembourg its apparently a task just to find a place without valet- let alone somewhere we could actually afford to eat. We ended up finding a pizzeria type place and walked into to the chef asking us how we were. Allie answered by yelling hungry. Well this proved a good move because we got free appies sent to us by the kitchen. Besides this we decided to grab a beer at this place- just a local one, you know try the true Luxembourger experience. We got this stuff called Leffe (actually from Belgium) and it tasted just lie Kidney beans.

After dinner we walked down a canal and saw lovely sights- huge swarms of mosquitoes, some sort of derelict house being used as a anarchy clubhouse, the usual. When we got back to the hostel we wanted to ask where a good place for Internet and all that jazz was since it cost an arm and a leg to use at the hostel. Well the waste of space behind the counter responded with and I quote "well if you girls want to get wasted you pretty much have to go to town and one of those pub or whatever". I say sorry I was looking for an Internet cafe. he says oh yea I think they are opened till midnight. We just bypassed that question all together and asked him how to get to a walking trail. He was so helpful- actually had no idea what we were even talking about and kept talking about getting wasted. We decided to just give up on this turd and go to bed.

At this point Allie and I had been reading the last two harry Potter books aloud to each other on the trains. I now uber geeks, but passes the time. So we were over tired at this point and I decided I was going to come up with some spells. Well I saw a bike tire that had popped and thought I could come up with a spell to inflate it. Well in Harry Potter a lot of the spells end in '-io' so I went for the most obvious choice of yelling infellatio WRONG. I'm pretty sure they wont' be using that one in the next movie.

Luxembourg has all these fortified areas and underground castle tunnel things so we adventured in a few of these. We realized that we have been going underground in quite a few of the cities we visited, quite interesting. We also realized that Luxembourg is a little right for our blood, and it was time to move on the Brussels.

3 comments:

Pellatt said...

Infallatio still makes me laugh. Sooo inappropriate.

Anne said...

Hey Rachel, I guess you are writing your blog retrospectively as I just recieved a message from Allie that says she will be in Vernon tomorrow. Sounds like you are seeing some amazing things/ people and we envy your fun. I will call you again soon and keep up the interesting play by play...love you lots Mom

Freya said...

Reading aloud is good practice for when you come home and read to Carter - he loves books.