Tomorrow, June 23, is Luxembourg’s national holiday. The big party is tonight, in anticipation of the torch-parade and the fireworks display just before midnight. We had a great time last year, as we shared on this blog: Post 1, Post 2, Post 3. In preparation for National Day 2010, we offer you a bit of history, cribbed from the City of Luxembourg’s website. (more…)
[Editor’s Note: Sharon is a founding member of the Friends of the Bugle. Due to our recent crisis in content-generation, the Bugle’s editors foresee an expanded role for Friends of the Bugle. To learn more about this exciting development, please contact us!]
I was a guest of the Bakker Bugle B&B just a few weeks ago. I could tell you how much fun we had traveling & enjoying time with our friends & their hospitality, as well as Belgium beers, wine, and food, but instead here is a snippet of what Will & I did one day……
We decided to walk around the city center in Luxembourg City, then the crazies came out… but this isn’t about them…it’s about us. (more…)
The excitement this week? Taking care of a friend’s dog, who we’ll call Sylvester (to protect the innocent).
The dog in question is an adult labradoodle, and he is a very well-behaved and friendly companion for walks and playing catch.
There are dog parks all over Luxembourg City, but they are the kind of muddy, befouled mess you’d expect for early spring. Still, it was great fun to play catch without a leash. (more…)
We were honored by a visit from Flat Stanley. Our friend Grace sent Flat Stanley to us, and we took a little tour around the Luxembourg region last weekend. We spent Saturday border-crossing among four countries!
You might enjoy the results of our tour — we have a booklet that you can see in one of three forms: (more…)
It wasn’t easy – but we’ve finally put our world together. It took two more marathon sessions, but we finished our puzzleball globe. When you last checked in, we had completed Antarctica and the surrounding waters, and we’d managed to hook up with South America.
Next, Will managed to connect Australia and some of south east Asia to the main section.
To Whom It May Concern:
At several social functions during our recent visit to the US, my spouse Will told a somewhat humorous story involving the shooting of a movie in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland. I would like to address my remarks on those occasions. (more…)
The work of building our world continues apace.
I thought you might enjoy seeing the progress after the first evening of solid puzzleball work.
Antarctica came together pretty quickly. (Truth in puzzling – the half-dozen bottom-most pieces came attached to the black circle.)
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Was your New Year’s Resolution to become familiar with European history? If so, you’re going to love our recommendation for an entertaining way to survey European history from the French Revolution to the present day. If you have a long commute, you’ll especially like the medium: hour-long audio tracks, produced by a history professor. But it is certainly not a dry lecture series.
At Bethel University, history professor Chris Gehrz produced a podcast called Radio Modern Europe for his course, HIS354 Modern Europe. The format is clever, using multiple means of presenting the material: short lectures, of course, but also breaking news bits, simulated interviews with historical figures, and even recipes. (more…)
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