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Abby
Dec 20, 20142 min read
Christmas Countdown – Number 5
This was probably one of my favourite days out in Luxembourg, and again, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. A large groups of trainees...
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Abby
Dec 18, 20141 min read
Christmas Countdown – Number 6
It’s a cafe, it serves coffee and giant slices of delicious cake, its name is Chocolate House. Of course it’s going to be one of my...
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Abby
Dec 18, 20141 min read
Christmas Countdown – Number 7
I should warn you in advance, the next few posts will be food-related. If you know me at all, this won’t surprise you. So, number 7 on my...
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Abby
Dec 17, 20141 min read
Christmas Countdown – Number 8
For this one you’ll need to cast your minds back to October, when it was still warm and the leaves were turning brown. Lots of our...
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Abby
Dec 16, 20141 min read
Christmas countdown – Number 9
This is the part where the list gets quite subjective! My biased number 9 is the European Quarter, in Kirchberg. The Parliament...
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Abby
Dec 15, 20142 min read
Christmas countdown!
My first three months in Luxembourg are almost at an end, and there is a very festive atmosphere at work and in town. As I’ve said...
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Abby
Dec 11, 20141 min read
Luxembourg in the snow
Luxembourg got a light dusting of snow last week, so the city looked even more beautiful than usual.
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Abby
Dec 9, 20142 min read
Traineeship trip to Brussels
Our next traineeship trip was to Brussels, where the European Parliament has its second seat. Unlike the Strasbourg trip, this was only a...
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Abby
Dec 7, 20143 min read
Strasbourg – politics, the Pope and Flammkuchen
It’s a lazy Sunday in Luxembourg. After a fun but cold day exploring the Christmas markets in Trier, I enjoyed sleeping in this morning...
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Abby
Dec 7, 20141 min read
Language learning
I believe we have to tell people that learning another language is actually an adventure. It is tough, it needs work, but what it will do...
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Abby
Nov 23, 20141 min read
Trips from Luxembourg
One of my favourite things about Luxembourg is that it’s a great base for travelling! Yesterday I went on a hike in Echternach with some...
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Abby
Nov 19, 20142 min read
An update – life in the editing unit
It’s hard to believe that I’ve already been living and working in Luxembourg for a month and a half! The good news is that my traineeship...
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Abby
Nov 19, 20141 min read
Language
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Austrian born philosopher. (via oupacademic)...
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Abby
Oct 19, 20142 min read
‘Do you do simultaneous translation?’
I have now completed my first week as a trainee! OK, so my contract technically started on 1st October, but for the first two weeks our...
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Abby
Oct 5, 20142 min read
Settling in
Moving to another country now seems like a routine process; the suitcase-dragging through airports and streets, getting used to...
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Abby
Sep 22, 20141 min read
Travelling
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people...
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Abby
Sep 21, 20142 min read
New job, new blog!
Well, I decided to start a blog! Thanks for dropping by! I have been toying with the idea of starting a blog for a while as a way to keep...
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