Postcard from Luxembourg
“Luxembourg? That’s not a place you visit, it’s somewhere you fly over!” Such was a typical reaction when I told people I was off to the small nation land-locked by Belgium, France and Germany. But I had my reasons. One was that, like my trip to Vienna a month previously, I had paid for a hotel room there in 2020, not been able to use it thanks to the bubonic plague, and unless I filled it before the end of 2021 I would lose my money. The other reason was that by journeying to Luxembourg I would finally have visited all 27 EU countries! In 2018, on arriving back at Bristol Airport from yet another trip to Gran Canaria - a rubbish one - I noticed a poster listing all EU members. It was in that moment the idea struck me. I realised I’d been to 15 of the countries already, over many years, so why not set a target of doing all of them? In the spirit of the slogan on the T-shirt I got from Spiked - “Love Europe, hate the EU” - in a mad flurry I set about visiting the likes of Bulgaria,