Luxembourg: the alluring myth of Melusina & the reality of rest

Luxembourg: small is beautiful

“Where did you say you were going again, Switzerland?”, I was asked a few times as our August trip was approaching. With an exception of one friend who’d recently been to Luxembourg and loved it, everyone else was intrigued, if not puzzled, by our choice.

Luxembourg is not the most popular holiday destination. In fact, it remains pretty obscure, not just because of its modest size, but a general lack of presence in international media and culture (how many famous Luxembourgian artists do you know? Zero?). But going to unpopular places has its perks — you become an explorer, discovering paths and places by yourself, as opposed to recreating a page from TripAdvisor. And chances are, you’re not going to hear “Andalusia? Ah yes, we go there every summer”.

The reason we went to Luxembourg was because of an painting exhibition I had at the Ancien Cinema in Vianden. It opened in the last weekend of July and lasted a month, so we decided that, besides going for the opening, we would also spend the last week of the exhibition in Luxembourg. By that point, my summer had been quite int