Phespirit goes to Luxembourg
Clervaux     April/May 1999

BEAUTY & THE BEAST

See how it simultaneously impresses engineers and outrages aesthetes:

Grande-Duchesse Charlotte bridge is a hideous scar on the heavens above the Alzette valley of Luxembourg City.

Could it not have been painted green?

CLERVAUX

Is there a prettier town in the world than Clervaux, with its Rhenish-Romanesque parish church, its white-walled medieval castle and its cosy location in the lush, looping valley of the River Clerve?

Small and enchanting.

IN ECHTERNACH

Phespirit, the perennial pedestrian, stands securely on a zebra-crossing with a metal chain down one side.

Observe the numerous motorbikes parked nearby - a feature of the whole country.