Luxembourg has little distinctive tourist attractions. But they have what they call as "The Grund". It is like an undeground city. It used to be a fortress, now it is a park. Although there are villas here, which indicate that this town can be inhabitated. Sorry, all my information here are all doubtful,as we got no tourist guide anymore.

But despite its age, everything seemed to be well preserved.

A view from the top. Below is The Grund. The trees you see under the bridge is part of the grund's "forestry".

Going down into the Grund

Under that bridge

Enjoying more greeneries!

Luxembourg de Luxe

Luxembourg’s city architecture is quite modern compared to France and Amsterdam. Their industrial sector is mainly dominated by steel industry. Luxembourg is also known for their banking and finance industry. Better than the Swiss? Uhhmm.. not quite sure?

The city of Luxembourg is small that seemed to us that everything is just walking distance from where we stayed.

Luxembourg

Going South, we headed for Luxembourg.

Luxembourg is a small land-locked country. If I am not mistaken, it is the smallest and richest State in Europe, next to the Vatican. There is not much tourist sites to see here. But we still dropped by because we needed some rest.

Myra’s cousin welcomed us into their beautiful apartment. It was pitt stop from our travel marathon. Here, we slept comfortably and we ate delicious home-cooked meal. Thank you Isabelle for your warm hospitality!

Amsterdam and Arts

Amsterdam's development of their arts and culture is surprisingly rich. How can a city as liberal as they are, be so cultured at the same time?

As the home of the celebrated artist Van Gogh, The Vincent Van Gogh Museum showcased some the artist's masterpieces. Whose works have inspired a lot od modern artists even up to today.
Here's one of his self portraits.



Van Gogh painted a total of 35 self-portraits. No this is not vanity nor narcissistic. He wanted to learn making protraits, but could not afford on models. Using his own reflection, he experimented on various styles, colors, and strokes.

No pictures taken here as the security inside allowed no cameras.

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Amsterdam is also the home of the famous 13 year old girl Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Her father's office building, where her family hid during the hollocaust, is within the center of Amsterdam - 263 Prisengracht. Anne Frank's diary narrated a captivating story that depicted a parcel of the lives of the Jews and the Nazis, that this building now became a museum.



Across that canal, behind the house boat, is THE building. But now it has expanded and has been given some renovations. So it now looks modern.

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Finally, the last museum we visited was the RIJK Museum. Netherland's largest museum of arts and history of the country. It showed us how the affluent lived that period.

Censored!

Amsterdam is one of the world's (if not THE most) liberal cities. Prostitution and marijuana are both legal. So I suppose, crime rates are low here, by virtue of legality?

Unlike my native country, sex is not a taboo here. It is common to find ad posting or leaflets of an agency promoting their girls for paid hanky panky. Sex shops and video arcades are common sights as well.

No, I did not enter nor purchased anything here. Don't wanna spoil my virgin eyes!