This past weekend we met up with my brother and his family in Vianden Luxembourg, a four hour drive from our house. This sleepy medeival town is situated among the Ardennes in a deep valley of the Ourn river. Above the town is the dramatic castle of Vianden. Originally a Roman fortress, the castle exhibit nicely showed its development from a Roman outpost to the 17th century castle. Our hotel was a former abbey. It had nice creeky wooden stairs, and friendly service. No monks though!
From Vianden we drove to Echternach, where
we visited an old church (built in the early 11th century in early Roman style), which in its cript had a spring! The drive through the countryside was spectacular. Gently rolling hills dotted with deep valleys and mossy rocks. The latter somewhat reminded us to the Pacific Northwest. We also visited the capital Luxembourg, but the weather turned bad, so we left for home.
