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What a terrible day in terms of weather. It was raining when I left Trier and it didn’t really stop all day!<\/strong><\/p>\n In the rain, I didn’t like the idea of the 30 minute walk in to the centre of Trier, so I made a quick getaway and headed for the German border with Luxembourg, at Schengen.<\/p>\n Schengen is quite a small town so it was only a short stop, enough time to visit the European Museum which is all about the history of the border-free area within the EU, the Schengen Area.<\/p>\n A short drive from Schengen took me to Luxembourg City. I parked for free in one of the city’s P+R car parks, from where it was just a 15 minute bus ride to the city centre. It had more or less stopped raining by this stage so I was able to have a good walk round, take some photos, and find something for lunch.<\/p>\n Luxembourg is a relatively small city but quite an important centre for the region. There was quite a mixture of languages there – aside from German there was a lot of French, and also the local language Luxembourgish which has influences from both French and German and is quite weird to listen to!<\/p>\n I seemed to get on OK speaking German with the replies coming in French. My French is pretty much non existant beyond “Bonjour” and “Au revoir”! I couldn’t really understand what they were saying, but I got the food they ordered, so that’s the important thing!<\/p>\n With time getting on, by 15:30 I was ready to return to the car. It was raining again, so my original plan to stop briefly at the 3-Border Point of Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany – was halted. I chose instead to drive straight up to my overnight point in Aachen: The Western most city in Germany and the closest location in Germany to the UK.<\/p>\n The route there took me part way through the French speaking region of Belgium, although thankfully I didn’t have to put French language radio on: The Belgischer Rundfunk (BRF) stations which broadcast in German were available in this region, not far from Eupen, Belgium’s German speaking capital.<\/p>\n Once checked in to the hotel in Aachen I got the bus in to the city centre to wander around the Altstadt, before finding somewhere to eat. Just by chance I found my way to a Greek restaurant. So having encountered French, German, Luxembourgish and Flemish during my international drive earlier in the day, I now was able to speak Greek as well.I had the best souvlaki I’ve had in a long time!<\/p>\n After dinner, I returned to the hotel for a good night’s sleep. I’ve got a long drive ahead now: Several hours to get to Ypres.<\/p>\n My original plan was to stop on the way in Maastricht – but I’m going to leave that for another time. Instead, I’m going to go back to Br\u00fchl to visit the bits I missed earlier in the week.It does mean driving in the wrong direction for a while, but if I start early enough that shouldn’t be a problem.<\/p>\n So after an international drive – Germany, Luxembourg, France for a few km, back in to Luxembourg, back in to Germany, Belgium, and finally back in to Germany – My German road trip is almost over, and I will soon be leaving Germany \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n Hopefully I can do it all over again soon!<\/p>\n FH.<\/p>\n Today’s Mileage:<\/strong> 196 Miles There was quite a mixture of languages there – aside from German there was a lot of French, and also the local language Luxembourgish which has influences from both French and German and is quite weird to listen to!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[50,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-luxembourg-city","category-schengen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/DSCN2580.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAccumulative Mileage:<\/strong> 1243.7 Miles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"