Last Day in Luxembourg

We began the day at Luxembourg American Cemetery.  As you can see, the weather was, once again, quite accommodating.

Our reason for visiting was to, once again, pay our respects to the men and women who lost their lives liberating Luxembourg from the Germans. 

There are thousands who bear their names on white cross markers.

And hundreds who are still missing, whose names are inscribed upon the Tablets of the Missing.

Marty's uncle is remembered at the top of this column: 

Goempel, Frederick W. Jr.    Pvt.    11th Inf. 5 Div    Pennsylvania

And there are the markers of those whose bodies were never identified.

While we were gazing upon the markers, we heard a Glockenspiel chime out the tune to our national anthem.  A memory not soon forgotten.

We left the cemetery and headed to Pettingen where a 10th century castle ruins still stands.  Our GPS decided to take the long way and we soon found ourself in downtown Luxembourg City, at the height of lunch hour traffic.  So, what should have taken 20 minutes ended up taking an hour.  

We were happy to have finally reached our destination.

Although the ruins are lovely and the town of Pettingen quite charming, our stomachs were growling by now and we headed into Mersch to have some lunch and enjoy the scenery. We weren't disappointed.

What a picture perfect day we were blessed with on this last day in Luxembourg.

Dinner was at a restaurant of Ernest's choice:  Sieweburen.  All I can say is that it was FABULOUS!

We had such a marvelous evening and every morsel was delicious.  We had an extremely entertaining waiter with the cutest French accent whose main purpose was to make us happy.  When he saw my camera, he immediately asked if he could take our photo.  How could we resist?

The man was so excited with his picture taking abilities, that when we ordered dessert, he insisted on taking another photo!

I think he said he summed up our trip quite well when he looked at the view finder and said, "Ooh la LA!"