Looking at Luxembourg...
(An alternative point of view)
(I better say this in case you think this page is government-sponsored or an official cultural site.)
As true world travellers, we all know there are only two cities in the world one really needs to know. They are New York and, you guessed it, Luxembourg. Any other city is somewhere inbetween. Hey, what's Paris? Paris isn't New York and it isn't Luxembourg. See what I mean? Of all the cities in the world, New York is the most interesting, and Luxembourg is, ah, the most compressed. New York is famous for its skyscrapers, its Indian summer, its cultural diversity. Luxembourg?
First, it too has tall stuff sticking into the sky.
Here's some of that Luxembourg skyscraping stuff - and a look at an average Luxembourg 1998 sky.
And it wasn't late in the day either. Just your average 98 late afternoon summer day.
(Not to worry, we have other trademarks than cranes. For example, the whole world knows about the banks and the European Institutions, also about others, which are... can't think of any right now. Maybe it's too early in the day to be promotionally
creative?)
But how bad was the Lux98 summer really? I hear you say not to look at the sky all the time. After all, there must be fine things on the ground.
Ok then, here's a look at this year's typical Luxembourg ground:
This is NOT one of Luxembourg's famous lakes seen from a space station. I included the tip of my shoes to bring you back to reality, on the ground so to speak.
There is above all our most famous lake, the "Stau", a dammed lake. Used to be the place in the seventies where young Luxembourgers went to get drunk and learn kissing, now it's become a dam-ned lake full of kids peeing in the water and people turning up their blasters. The "stau" has one exceedingly interesting feature though, a toothless, sucking fish (Wels) which, as its name suggests, eats its food by sucking it in. Which might explain why many swim naked in the "Stau" on hot
and lonely summernights.
21 Oct 98
