{"id":2936,"date":"2013-03-07T21:37:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T20:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2013-03-07T21:37:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T20:37:02","slug":"snow-in-luxembourg-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/07\/snow-in-luxembourg-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow in Luxembourg, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After two days of sun and relatively warm weather, it’s safe to bring out our photos of this winter’s snowfall in Luxembourg. It was the most cold and snowy winter since we arrived here. As good Illinoisans, we didn’t mind it a bit. A few more<\/a> sunny days would have been nice… but we don’t miss late-winter lake-effect snow at all. <\/p>\n

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As soon as the snow stopped on January 16, I walked to some of my favorite spots in Luxembourg-Ville.<\/p>\n

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The Cathedral and Pont Adolphe<\/p>\n

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The park that Anita walks through every morning on her way to work.<\/p>\n

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Still along Anita’s commute.<\/p>\n

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Anita and a great website about statues<\/a> concur: this is a memorial for Am\u00e9lie von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach. With a name like that, she may require her own blog post once the flowers at her feet bloom.<\/p>\n

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Still in the Municipal Park, but walking towards the Alzette Valley.<\/p>\n

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In front of the nicest retirement home<\/a> in the world.<\/p>\n

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The extra-super-deluxe version of the Luxembourg-Ville tour includes this tree, which was planted in 1921 to celebrate the birth of Prince (late Grand-Duke) Jean. It’s a horse-chestnut, fellow dendrophiles<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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The Alzette Valley<\/p>\n

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Looking toward the Three Acorns castle, a site along our favorite hike within the city.<\/p>\n

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The Bock. To be frank, I’m not happy with how my photos of the valley turned out — and I can’t diagnose the problem with how I shot them. There’s still so much to learn about photography.<\/p>\n

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The Red Bridge<\/p>\n

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Symbols of the Grand Ducal family and the Fondation Pescatore.<\/p>\n

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I caught a bus to the shopping mall in Kirchberg to meet friends. On the way, I snapped this photo of the Philharmonie building.<\/p>\n

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Sure, slushy roads are the same everywhere. But here in Europe, we have slushy boulevards<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Okay, okay, dirty snow really is the same everywhere.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a well-placed advert for a sunny vacation.<\/p>\n

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Luxembourg City workers have the best toys. Although it doesn’t snow here very often, they have some very fancy snow-removal equipment.<\/p>\n

More to come! This set doesn’t even get us through the first snowfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After two days of sun and relatively warm weather, it’s safe to bring out our photos of this winter’s snowfall in Luxembourg. It was the most cold and snowy winter since we arrived here. As good Illinoisans, we didn’t mind it a bit. A few more sunny days would have been nice… but we don’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[620,201],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2936"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3010,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936\/revisions\/3010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}