Today we left Esch and we are now in Strasbourg. The train was so old and had dark mustard yellow curtains and next to no ventilation. The journey was about 2.5 hours and it wasn't that busy. At one of the stops a woman got on with her daughter and she was an absolute nightmare! She must have been about 4 and was running around, sticking her head out of opening windows, trying to open the train door and she even tried to unzip our bags at one point. Other than th...

We are in Luxembourg City today! This morning in Esch we were trying to find an Internet cafe but couldn't. Paul's emails have been blocked by Microsoft because he's abroad so he needs to access them via a computer because of the police job etc, and we need to organise our ferries to and from Sardinia. We couldn't find an Internet cafe, but we did find a Carrefour express where they had another one of the orange juice squeezers and I took a photo! It tastes so de...

Today we left Brussels (after learning how much we hate city tax) and have moved on to Luxembourg! The train to Luxembourg City was about 3 hours long with an engine problem halfway which delayed us by 40 minutes. We then got a train to Esch-sûr-Alzette where our hotel is (Hotel de la Poste). Our hotel is in the centre of a pedestrianised shopping quarter, so it is quite busy on the street below, but fortunately not far from the station. Esch is alright, but the...

Today we went to the Grand Place to see it in daylight - as the buildings appear to have gold detailing. We then went to the Hard Rock Cafe for lunch/dinner because we hadn't eaten yet. We ordered 6 drinks and the waitress told us she had told her manager and he was shocked at how thirsty we were! It was boiling hot in our defence and there were noisy Americans next to us. Afterwards we went back to the Mannekin pis and had a 1€ waffle. I had Nutella, strawber...

We decided to go to Ghent today instead of Bruges (definitely not because we ignored the 8 o'clock alarm).. This was our first trip using the interrail passes, and no one even checked them! Typical. We arrived at the main train station and thought the city centre would be very close. How we were wrong! We hadn't eaten and it was scorching hot in the sun but spirits remained high. We walked about 3 miles in every direction until we gave up and checked my phone. We...