Luxembourg city is a little "Pueblacho" in the middle of Europe, beautiful but a "Pueblacho". The city has a population of around 90.000 people, however during labour days the population can be around 120.000, because many people commute from Belgium, France or Germany. In fact, this is my third week in Luxembourg and i still have not know anybody from the country.
Actually i am living in a hotel ( Parc Hotel ), which is not really confortable, at least for me. It is good that you do not have to worry about cleaning or thing like this, but after sometime i start to fell a little bit tired and i just wondering to have my own place.
But Anyway, I arrived here last July 16th. I took my flight from Madrid at 20:10 p.m. It is a short trip, just 1 hour and 50 minutes from MAdrid to Luxembourg city. I picked up a taxi and went to the hotel ( During my first week i stayed in Mercure hotel close to Train station ). When i said to the taxi drvier the address, we looked at me and told me:
Taxi Driver: " You know, the hotel is not bad, but it is loceted in the worst street of Luxembourg".
Me: " What do you mean, by the worst street?"
Taxi Driver: " Well you know...Prostitution ,drugs...things like this..."
So i was like.. " Ok, well done man ( for my current project manager, who was in charge of finding a place an booked a room ), it is going to be funny"... And well, yes although Luxembourg city is a pretty safe place i checked that it was not the best street in the world, specially at night. My hotel was sorrounded by some Cabarets, street hookers waiting for sex partners...just a little bit "Montera".
So WELCOME TO LUXEMBOURG!!!. Fortunately before moving up to Luxembourg i got in touch with one workmate from Paris office who is also expatriated here in Lux and work with me in the same project. He is a cool guy and my best friend in the city :-D. I met him the next day after my arrival in the main train station. It was pretty helpful because i work at 25 km south from Luxembourg city, close to Eszch - sur - Atlzetch, so he showed me the way to arrive work.
During my first day, i met all my workmates ( Clients, Manager ( The one who made my reservation ), Senior Executives..). I got introduced briefly to the core business of my client and i spent the next days just reading tons of documents.


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