Yesterday I was in Luxembourg where all form of public transit is entirely free. There were a ton of buses, the tram was packed, and it felt so great to just be able to go anywhere in the country without worrying. How I wish for the same everywhere else! #luxembourg#publictransit#trains#trams
Pollen in Luxembourg, the birch count is frightening (as I'm allergic, it's not a great time at the moment).
Does anyone know anything about 'standard' pollen concentrations? Do trees release more pollen to increase* their chances of survival in a world in climate crisis?
Elections in the country where I live and where I cannot vote. 10% of people voted for the far right and almost 30% for the Conservatives. The party leader boasts: "Voters opted for a different policy". Promising the impossible, refusing to see the reality of the climate crisis, increasing suffering and postponing solutions, really???
On Wednesday, I took the #Bruxelles–#Luxembourg line. I got the impression, that this could be a great route for passengers from Belgium to Switzerland, the German Rhine valley and Strasbourg. But it isn't quite, yet.
I think, we have a little 🚨 #CrossBorderRail problem here. Let me explain my thoughts.
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While Nesrine Malik makes a lot of good points here about Britain's diminishing influence in the world (due to the problems we confront at home) by citing nominal GDP figures to say we're the 6th largest economy in the world, she misses the key indicator of our real economic status.
By not using GDP per capita - where we are ranked in the mid-to-low 20s - she misses a much more convincing & consistent economic context for her argument!
Retards et suppressions à prévoir entre Luxembourg et Wasserbillig / Trier
Suite à l'endommagement d'un passage à niveau à Manternach, causé par un tiers, des retards et des suppressions sont à prévoir entre Luxembourg et Wasserbillig / Trier.
Well we didn’t get the eclipse here but tonight is the most incredible #earthshine I’ve ever seen, seen here together with the planet #Jupiter over the magical turrets of #Luxembourg. There is a Rush lyric for most occasions and tonight’s is of course «Earthshine»
On certain nights
When the angles are right
And the moon is a slender crescent
It’s circle shows
In a ghostly glow
Of earthly luminescence
Earthshine
A beacon in the night
I can raise my eyes to earthshine
Luxembourg joins Czech-led ammunition initiative for Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
Luxembourg's Defense Minister Yuriko Backes also said that the defense ministry had recently delivered 6,000 155mm shells to Ukraine.