Riding the high of finding an apartment Wednesday, we reverted into tourist mode on Thursday, with some purposeful exploring thrown in for good measure. I can never kick completely out of research mode, and Pete is quite patient with me, bless his easy-going heart. We rode a few buses around town, including down to the far end of Kirchberg, to the Luxexpo (basically a shopping mall) that also houses a hypermarche/supermarche called Auchan. It's a bit like a Fred Meyer or Super Walmart in the states, but you can push your shopping cart out into the rest of the mall with your groceries as well.
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| Auchan supermarche down on the right, 2 floors |
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| secretly pricing the essential merchandise |
We also located several other large and small grocery shops in the city, searching for items we typically buy weekly in the states, browsing unfamiliar foods, and getting a feel for prices in general. So far the Asian market was the only place with sweet potatoes. I know you were wondering.
Then in true tourist fashion, we stopped at the Chocolate House across from the Grand Duke's Palace.
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| Pete practicing his French with our server |
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| choose a square of chocolate molded onto the end of a wooden spoon (this one's "chocolate bourbon vanilla" flavor) |
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| stir chocolate into hot milk = hot chocolate. |
We thought we'd try dinner at an Italian/Pizza restaurant a few blocks from our apartment. Yummy and quite reasonably priced (I'm liking the no-tip thing, by the way, although I feel American-raised-guilt for it.)
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| Glowing pizza oven in the background. European unsliced knife-and-fork-it pizza. It's a workout. |
Friday will be our last day in town. Signing the rental contract in the morning! And...we have a scheduled visit to our neighborhood school!
1 comment:
Dad, if you read this, yes that was a local Luxembourgish reisling. And yes it was delicious!
Pkt
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