Luxemburg - the well-being country

On Saturday with friends I was visiting Luxemburg. I hadn’t been really convinced if in this country is something interesting to see. When I was in Bruxelles first time, I visited Mini-Europe and I remember that from Luxemburg they show only one bridge as the most value thing from the country. But after our trip, I change my mind about it. The topography of the capital is very surprising because it is very mountainous. There are a lot of bridges and viaducts and gulfs are very deep. That can impressed. Especially that there is much ruins of defence wall or castle. Strange thing is that in the capital, there wasn’t many cars. Maybe because of the weekend.  

The biggest impression for me was that Luxemburg is very rich country. SOME of the prices for social services are so low that it seems to be joke. For example, in the city they have Velo Service. It’s totally the same as in Bruxelles that you can borrow city bike for money and leave it in special zones. So in Bruxelles the daily cost of borrow the bike is 1,5e. In Luxeburg for one week you pay 1e!!! That shocked me very much and I couldn’t believe it. I tried to find some catch in their system but no success. I’ll mention also that annual cost of Velo is only 15e. The prices of  public transport are also lower – the single fare ticket cost 1,5e and you can use it for 2 hours (in Gent – 1,8e/1h). Most of museums are also free of charge. I’m wondering where they collect money for all this things because I had heard that their taxes are also quite low. I could also compare the prices of products in supermarket and they are similar to the Belgian prices. The biggest difference in prices I found in prices of houses and apartments. In Luxemburg they are very high. 

The second thing I examined were languages. In Luxemburg, there are three official languages: Louxemburgish, French and German. In the capital we found shops with products in French and German, but I didn’t see the third language at all. Most of people that we asked about sth, spoke French. So my conclusion is that French is the main language of Luxemburg. Many people know also English. Communication with local people wasn’t very hard. Although there was one young girl who didn’t know meaning of world fan in English and French language. I liked Luxemburg very much and I’m curious more about their life style and country system.