A YouTube vlog by Kara and Nate Buchanan documenting a day trip from Brussels to Luxembourg (their 54th country). They travel by train early in the morning, explore Luxembourg City (including the casemates tunnels), sample local food and coffee, and return to Brussels the same day. The vlog notes practical details (train times, free Saturday buses), quick cultural facts about Luxembourg, and visitor logistics (entry fees, recommended sites).
Questions this video answers
Country #54 (Luxembourg).
8:33 (they were at the station at 8:15).
11:50.
€6 per person.
17 km of tunnels underneath the city.
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Today is our fourth day in Brussels, but we are leaving Brussels just for the day and going to our 54th country.
Sorry, I was making really weird faces because I was pretty sure this wasn't our fourth day, but I think it is.
It is.
Technically, we've had two full ones today. Just started. Just did not feel like we've been here four days.
I know. Okay.
It's.
That's us. So I see 13.
We're at 10.
How do we know where 13 is?
Today we are traveling by train to Luxembourg. It is currently 8:15, and our train leaves at 8:33. And as you may notice, we are early. This is a very, very rare time. This is like. Yeah. Relaxing.
It's raining outside. So I'm kind of glad that we chose today to leave.
And the weather's supposed to be good in Luxembourg. We have no clue what we're gonna do. Like, literally, we know nothing. Apparently, there's a helpful tourist office at the train station. So we're gonna show up there and then see what there is to do in Luxembourg.
What are we gonna do with all our free time?
It is 1150, and we are officially in our 54th country of Luxembourg.
Luxembourg.
Now to find the tourist information place.
So we couldn't find the tourist information center. Apparently, it doesn't exist at the train station, and it's in the city center. So we asked how to get to the city center, and we learned that the buses are free on Saturdays. And it's Saturday, it's going to get on the bus.
Sa.
Do it.
So the Internet was right. The people at the tourist office were super helpful. We got several maps. We had got a sheet of paper with things that we should eat in Luxembourg. Looks like there's some good stuff to do. I'm especially excited about the casemates. It's like tunnels that go underneath the city. Apparently you can give yourself, like, your own guided tour.
Yeah, it's gonna be great. And the weather is fantastic. It was raining in Brussels. We just picked a great day to come here. There's all these food trucks set up right now in the square.
I'm guessing we must be in, like, the main street square. And it's lunchtime and there's food trucks.
Yeah. So eat casemates, walk around.
Should be a good day.
Turns out this is more of a farmer's market than food trucks, so.
So we've ended up at a place called La Supa, which seems like a fancy Luxembourg version. Luxembourgish version of Panera Bread. But one of the things on the sheet of paper that he gave us. Whatever the SPE is right here is what this soup is. So I feel good that we're getting like some authentic Luxembourgish food. And I also got the. The Luxembourgish sandwich. It has some kind of sausage on it.
Lunch was eh, average. I just like rather not say anything when we don't have a good meal just to not bring like negativity into the vlog because I don't like being negative. But I feel like it's my responsibility to tell you whenever we have a meal that's not so great because otherwise I feel like you look at it as a recommendation and we can't recommend that place. Panera's better.
And now we are en route to the casemates, which are these.
There are 17 km of tunnels underneath the city.
Crazy. We might be here. While we're at lunch, we looked up some fun facts about Luxembourg. One of them being that over half of the population are immigrants and half.
Of the population commutes to work from another country.
Crazy.
They also have the highest amount of cars per capita. So there's like 667 cars per thousand people.
They also have their own language, Luxembourgish.
Which I think is like some variation of German. But it's just crazy that a country this small has their own language.
But most of them also speak English, French, German.
What else do we got?
Luxembourg is the only grand duchy in.
The world, which I think means that it's the only country that's ruled by a grand duke. We're getting all of these facts off of like some random website. So if that's not correct, we're sorry.
None of it's probably true.
Okay, to the casemates.
We're inside the casemates. We only had to pay €6 a person to get into this really cool tourist attraction. I feel like that's pretty good. Into the darkness.
If you don't want to do the guided tour, you can just give yourself your own tour. So that's what we're doing. I don't think these are going to show up too well on the vlog though. It's really dark.
Spiral staircase just keeps going. Oh, here we go.
Oh no.
So are we at a. We got this map and it has all these letters on it, but it doesn't exactly tell you where you are or where you start or which direction to go.
It's a little difficult to figure out. Well, we're getting somewhere. I think we're at a. We're really close to it. I don't know what any of These names comtul.
Erected in the 10th century on the promontory of the Bach by the city's founder, Count Sefroy. Did that make any sense to you? No.
That's uphill. So this is downhill. That map goes downhill. So it looks like B would just head deeper into the camp.
No, but look, if we're sitting under these things right here.
A is that way. Correct. But according to this map, A should be going.
Oh, downhill like you said. I'm going to read B. It's a fort hout.
And to your right over the Bach rock and the fallen zont.
Say anything about the cannon? What?
If you go to G, be aware that section G is a U turn section. Galleries of mines destined to blow up part of the Bach in case of need.
Thanks to the renovation works of 2008 2009, this gallery underwent an overhaul to reveal all the mysteries of this historic place. Go back to the main gallery and proceed to H. I want to see the mines.
We made it out. That's easy.
So it took us a while to get ourselves oriented town there. But turns out the letters were labeled on the wall. So we were making it much harder for ourselves.
We just hadn't found any of those yet.
So we made our way around all the letters. Learned a little bit. It was a cool place.
Definitely worth going to if. Yeah, if you're in Luxembourg. I don't know that it gets much more Luxembourgish. Everything's luxent. That's a thing. Yeah. I put ish at the end of letters or like at the end of words all the time. But that's an actual thing here. So. Yeah, it was very Luxembourgish.
Working off all that chocolate from yesterday.
So we just took a little walk down by the river. We have two and a half hours until our train leaves. We really need to get Kara's computer charged back up so she can work for a little while on the way back.
So.
And we both really want some coffee. Only have one tiny cup this morning. Found the cool coffee shop. Got a really good macchiato. We can recommend the Golden Bean. Unlike lunch. Found a plug.
Give me a good afternoon.
Thank you so much. Have a good day.
Satia.
We just got back to Brussels. It is. It's 10:30pm we left at 8:00 clock this morning. So it was a long day, but a good day.
I visited a new country. I read an entire book and care edited a vlog.
