There's more to Luxembourg than you may know, and a lot of it can be seen on two wheels. Part one of our new series takes us through castles and cows!
In honour of European Mobility Week (16-22 September), an awareness-raising campaign on sustainable urban mobility by the European Commission, we've decided to show you some of Luxembourg's choicest cycling routes.
Naturally we relied wholly on public transport for the places where we didn't have enough pedal power to get us to and from the start/end points. Luckily Luxembourg's public transit network is very welcoming to bicycles, as you'll see in the video.
Well, we say "we," in reality we handed the assignment over to our social media team, and specifically to Chris and Caroline. We figured it made sense to hand over a cycling assignment to the two people whose names began with a C. Cycling with Caroline and Chris has an appealing alliteration to it, and that's as good an argument as any when it comes to assigning a task.
We teamed up with LS Sports in Schieren, who sponsored this series and supply C&C with their Cs (cycles!). The complete series will feature three guides, with the first instalment taking C&C from Schieren to Kirchberg. The second focusses on the City itself, and the third and final route sees the duo heading south from Kirchberg to Esch via Hamm, Hesperange, and Bettembourg.
Route 1 – Schieren to Kirchberg
Central Luxembourg is often overlooked in talks of what Luxembourg's rural areas has to offer – we have a tendency to focus on the gently sloping hills and vineyards of the east, the red rock of the south, and the tree-covered hills and valleys of the north.
That's a bit of a pity, because not only is central Luxembourg exceptionally accessible (yay, trains!), but it's also gorgeous. Yours truly previously lived in Lorentzweiler, which I consider to be one of the finest places in the world, so there is perhaps a bit of bias here, but donning the Hat of Objectivity* I can still say with honest certainty that the borderland separating the City from the north is gorgeous.
But don't take my word for it. This first video takes Chris and Caroline from Schiegen through Cruchten, Pettingen, and Mersch to Kirchberg. Along the way they see cows (of course), a castle, fields, forests, and the Mersch Monument of Independence.
Conveniently they hopped on a train from Mersch to Pfaffenthal, thus avoiding the toughest climb (Dommeldange to Kirchberg; if that doesn't make your legs burn you need not fear any hill, for you have the thighs of a God).
*The Hat of Objectivity is an entirely fictional item.
