It's already a week since I arrived here in Luxembourg last Sunday, thought it's time for an update! I'm not staying in the main city of Lux but in a small village a few kilometers outside called Strassen. A colleague recommended a small and quiet hotel here a little bit closer to the client office in Windhof. Judging by just looking at the parking lot there are maybe two or three other rooms occupied over the weekend, everyone else left on Friday. I have rented a car here so I'm at least able to get around, although this means I have to scrap ice every morning before going to work. Really didn't miss that part of owning a car :-(
The reason for staying in Lux over the weekend was that rather than loosing 6 hours each direction for the flights I thought I'll explore the region a little bit. That didn't happen for two reasons: One is the cold weather - walking around with -10 centigrade simply isn't fun, the other reason is work. Not for the client here in Lux but for my next assignment in Los Angeles, which should start right after I'm back in New York (unless plans change - nothing is sure until it has happened).
I was a bit surprised how little help the fact that I speak both German and English is here in Lux. The country has borders to Germany, France and Belgium so I expected to at least find some people speaking German here. For work this is not a problem since the working language for the client is English anyways but whenever we go out to eat everything is French. Until now I've been lucky and the things I order were at least close to what I imagined :-)
NFL playoffs are under way and since I'm outside of the US I thought I'll have little chance of seeing the games. I was wrong - actually the NFL broadcasts the games over their internet site (of course you have to pay for it - USD 24.95 for the 4 weekend games). The quality is fantastic, after the first couple seconds the video signal is clear and in HD quality, I can even watch the games I don't see live (like yesterdays evening game) the next day without any commercials. For all football fans out there who want to see NFL games with the original American broadcasters check out http://gamepass.nfl.com
