Esch-sur-Alzette — From the Red Lands to a New City

Esch-sur-Alzette was another stop that showed us how different southern Luxembourg is from the rest of the country. By the time we reached it, we had already seen how strongly this part of Luxembourg had been shaped by iron ore and industry, and Esch is really the...

Rumelange — Into Luxembourg’s Iron-Mining Country

Rumelange was one of the places in Luxembourg where the reason for our visit was very clear from the beginning: we came for the National Mining Museum and for the extraordinary industrial landscape surrounding it. After spending time in Luxembourg City and in quieter...

Junglinster — A Quiet and Practical Stop in Eastern Luxembourg

Junglinster was a very different kind of stop from some of the prettier places we had visited in Luxembourg. We did not come here for a dramatic landscape, a castle or a famous old centre. What we found instead was something extremely useful when travelling by...