A few days ago I learned that this building will be torn down soon.
Delhaize, the Belgian supermarket chain that currently resides in this building will tear it down to construct a new one. Though the old name of the store was not taken down when Delhaize moved in, this supermarket chain did not have [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Luxembourg’
Losing the monopoly
Avoiding the summer slump
Two free daily papers in Luxembourg, L’essentiel and Point24, have found a shockingly simple, yet highly elegant way of avoiding the yearly journalistic summer slump: They do not publish during the summer vacation, but also take time off to go on company holidays.Thus, we have to live with the half-page of daily gossip published on [...]
Christmas in May
By now already two days ago during my short morning commute to the university, I saw a bus that had “Christmas Party” written on its electronic display at the front. Unfortunately, I did not have the time to get my camera and take a picture. Was that a joke? Was that an early practice run? [...]
Missing Luxembourgish expression / fehlender luxembourgischer Ausdruck
When you go to a museum, you always learn something new. In the museum on the history of the city of Luxembourg which is a really great museum by the way, I learned that the phrase “I love you” does not exist in Luxembourgish (Lëtzebuergesch). There is only “I like you” (“Ech hunn dech gär”) [...]
Carnival Season / Fasching
I’ll try to get a couple of posts out today as I have not written anything here for a while. There’s been a lot going on during the last months and I have many ideas for new posts, I just need to find the time to write them down.
When I went to the supermarket today, [...]
