Europe 2012 - Luxembourg

The second stop in our short tour of Europe was Luxembourg. We've been there before and really liked it so we had to go back for another visit.

On our way across from France however we stopped at a motorway rest stop and after a spot of lunch noticed that there was a cache. The problem was however that the GZ was on the opposite side of the road. After a quick investigation we discovered that the service station had a bridge over to the west bound side so over we went. Once over the find was a simple follow the arrow (we had no maps!) and it was soon in hand.

Once in Luxembourg we arrived at a small (and very expensive) holiday camp next to a village called Nomern. Upon checking for local caches it turned out that the camp site and the village each had their own caches, however both of these were multi's! Undetered we tackled the campsite cache Hexelee over the course of an evening stroll with the final location on the next day. This was a nice short multi with some information gathering to locate the Hexelle which turned out to be a witches cave high above the camp site in the forest. The cave wasn't very large inside but it was occupied by a family of spiders... very large, very scary spiders. I don't like spiders!

The other multi started in the village itself and introduced a number of interesting locations before heading up the hill and again into the forest. It wasn't until we were puffing and panting (almost crawling) up this hill that we realised that the cache name Kniebrecher, translates as Knee Breaker! Aside from the climb this was a really nice walk which we all enjoyed. It also took us into the forest (where we probably wouldn't have ventured had it not been for the cache) so we saw another interesting part of the country.

No visit to Luxembourg would be complete without a visit to the main city of Luxembourg. This is a nice small town which can be navigated on foot. There's plenty of parking, but unfortunately there's also plenty of cars! To mark our visit we tackled a few challenges but also found the PrintzRischard cache. This was an easy find and only a stones throw from the main squares and grand palace.

On the way back to the tent we picked up a further two caches. The first LTPES Mersch was under a bridge in Mersch. This was easy to spot but not so easy to reach and in the process I got soaked in the rain and stung by nettles. We also found Vue iwwer Noumer which was the smallest tupperware style container we've ever, or are ever likely to see. The size of a nano!