{"id":255,"date":"2016-08-28T11:41:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T10:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/?p=255"},"modified":"2016-08-28T11:45:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T10:45:46","slug":"24-luxenburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/2016\/08\/28\/24-luxenburg\/","title":{"rendered":"(24) Luxenburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday morning and we thought we would drive to another country today so we headed off to Luxenburg which was only 200km away. &nbsp;We had a hold up on the motor way and lost an hour so it took us 3 hours arriving about 12:30, finding a park and heading off to explore the city. &nbsp;We headed off over a bridge where we could see some old buildings thinking that must be where all the action was. &nbsp;It was very hot though not quite as humid as it had been in Maastricht. &nbsp;There were all these grand old buildings and the road we were on was a main bus route but it was all very quiet. &nbsp;We decided we were going the wrong way, maybe this was the government centre or something, lots of buses but very little cars or pedestrians. &nbsp;We did find a place to have some lunch and then headed almost back to the car and off in another direction to find the busy part of the city. &nbsp;We hopped on a tourist &#8220;train&#8221; which gave us a tour around the historic part of Luxenburg along with a commentary of the history. &nbsp;It was really good and a lot more than I could absorb in one sitting, Luxenberg certainly had a long and checkered history going back to 962 and built around fortifications. &nbsp;We wandered a bit more before heading back to our car four levels underground.<\/p>\n<p>We had a clean run home arriving back in Maastricht around 7 o&#8217;clock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wp-image-1153455529jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wp-image-1153455529jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-257 alignnone size-full\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wp-image-1320956722jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wp-image-1320956722jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-259 alignnone size-full\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday morning and we thought we would drive to another country today so we headed off to Luxenburg which was only 200km away. &nbsp;We had a hold up on the motor way and lost an hour so it took us 3 hours arriving about 12:30, finding a park and heading off to explore the city. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}