Is there any country capital city in this world more boring than Luxembourg?

I am living in Luxembourg since last July when I moved up from Madrid to Luxembourg with my company to work in a project for 6 months and although Luxembourg City is pretty beautiful, especially the neighborhood of Grund, this city is bored really bored.

Last Tuesday, after coming back from the gym, I decided to try dinner at one “Spanish” restaurant called “La Bodega”. I guess that after spending 3 weeks out of Spain I miss a little bit the taste of one good Spanish meal. After ten seconds I realized that as many “Spanish” restaurants which are out of Spain, the only Spanish thing they usually have are the name.

Anyway I ordered a Spanish red wine and one “tapita” of champignons I was sit closed to a couple of old guys, who immediately realized I was not either French nor Dutch nor Luxembourgish so one of them start to talk to me.

“Bon Apetit”.
“Thanks”.
“Where are you from?”
“I am from Madrid. I have just recently moved up with my company to work here for 6 months”.
“Ahhh from Madrid?...Well good luck…This city is dead”.

Yes, this city is dead. The first day that I arrived at my new work, my manager told me that I was going to be impressed about how the streets in the city center are empty at 8:00 pm. I could not believe that, but... the picture below is a photo taken last Friday at 21:15 p.m… ONE FRIDAY,…ONE FRIDAY NIGHT IN SUMMER!!!!!!.



Most of the people who work in Luxembourg commute daily from France, Germany or Belgium (aprox between 120 000 & 130 000 people comes into the city) which makes Luxembourg as a “work city”. You can immediately see that the infrastructures of the city are much bigger than the “real necessity” ( 80 000). All shops are closed around 18:00 p.m and many restaurants are just opened for launch.

The culture of work-home-home work differs with the Latin culture of living more “outside”…in the street.

It is September, end of the summer time, I just wondering how this city will be in December…!!!