On my last day in Luxembourg, I decided to visit the Villa Vauban, located in the charming Haute Ville. The 1873 villa owes its name to a fort built on that site by the Marquis de Vauban in 1684. The seige of Luxembourg was part of a series of wars launched by Louis XIV in the latter part of the seventeenth century, to establish defensible boundaries in the northern and eastern parts of France.
The day I visited, the rain was tumbling down from the heavens, just as it had for the previous two days. Apparently (according to a Luxembourgish matron) it rains more here than it does in England! When I challenged her on this statement (I am, after all, English) she told me that she’d spent some time working in England as a young woman, in the hotel trade. And that she’d noticed that while the weather blows past you in England, due to those strong Atlantic gales, in Luxembourg, the clouds stay put, pouring a considerable amount of water upon you before, fiiinally, sloooowly moving on.
So there you have it. The weather is definitely worse in Luxembourg than it is in England!
