A little Taste of Ehnen (Luxembourg)

Last week I went for an afternoon of wine tasting with some people from work. We were visiting the wine museum in Ehnen, a small village next to the Moselle, next to the border between Luxembourg and Germany. Getting there on a Sunday was quite the trip, since all bus lines ran very infrequently. But the weather was lovely and the environment beautiful, so it was totally worth it.




 

 

 The museum is owned by the state and produces some special wines itself. We started our day with a guided tour through the museum, where the wine making process was explained to us. Unfortunately, the tour was only available in French, German and Luxembourgish, so we needed some translating, since the only language we have in common within our group is English. Besides that inconveniency, the tour was really interesting.

 

 

After the museum tour, we had a glass of wine produced at the vineyards that belong to the museum. These wines are there for the visitors of the museum to taste, but you cannot buy them. Very exclusive (and very tasty)! We continued our tour outside, with a walk through the vineyard and an explanation of the geology of the environment. The surroundings were very beautiful, with the Moselle at the backdrop and the walk was great.

 

Our sunny walk lead us to... more wine! Back at the museum, the wine tasting started. We could try several white wines produced in the area. We expected to get just a small glass of each wine, but actually there was wine aplenty. A pleasant surprise.

 

The day was lovely. This was a perfect group activity for in the summer. I forgot how nice the Moselle area is. I definitely plan to go back more often this summer.

 

 

 

 

A Day at the Spa - Antwerp (Belgium)

A couple of weeks ago, we had one of those long weekends that May knows so many of. I met one of my oldest childhood friends in Antwerp for a weekend of catching up, chilling out and sight seeing. Well, you can scrap the latter one, barely any sight seeing happened because we were too busy with the first two things. Which was, to be honest, pretty perfect.

 

Both of us were tired from working all week and traveling to Antwerp all morning, so our first day existed mostly of eating and drinking coffee. Back at the hotel, we had two missions; find a spa for the next day and explore the party life of Antwerp. But then we discovered that the Eurovision Song Festival was on, so we hád to watch that. It lasted until 2AM, so the party plans were definitely failing.

 

Luckily we did find the spa we were looking for, although it took ages, several calls and many searches so find a nice one that was remotely close. Not thát close though, as it turned out. We had to go to Brussels airport and then take a bus from there. While being on the train, we learned that we should have bought a special ticket, just to be allowed to pass through the airport. That was so ridiculous to us, that we decided to be rebels and pass the airport without buying it. With success!

 

Then it turned out the bus driver had never even heard of the bus stop we were going to. When we finally got there, the street did not look like a street that was close to a big and fancy spa. It pretty much looked like we might be on an unsuccessful expedition. But then there it was, this amazing castle-like building with a long lawn leading up to it. Here's a little impression from the outside, since no pictures were allowed inside.

 

 

 

 

The spa was better then we could have imagined, and so was the weather. When we sat on the chairs outside, next to the swimming pool, it was as if we were in a warm and exotic country. There were nice drinks, nice food and different saunas and baths. It was an amazing day to really relax and chill out big time.