One interesting feature of the Luxembourg public transportation system is that you can buy two kinds of tickets (aside from passes). The first kind cost 2\u20ac and is good for two hours (if you buy it from a machine, the two hours starts immediately). The other kind of ticket is 4\u20ac and is good until 4am the next day. Even though the Cactus market is only 20 minutes away from the\u00a0Ch\u00e2teau, I bought the all day ticket (Dagesbilljee<\/em>) to be safe. I’m sure there’s some way to pay a little more if your 2 hours end mid-route, but I wasn’t sure how that worked.<\/p>\n There are at least three different chains of hypermarkets in Luxembourg. To generalize from my experience at Cactus, they are like Meijer, or the WalMarts and Targets that also sell groceries. They have more groceries than the latter two stores, but also fewer clothes for men. They do have appliances. I decided to buy a moka pot<\/a>. My apartment came with a drip coffee maker, which I don’t like. To date, I’ve been drinking instant espresso (I know, I know). Interestingly, they don’t seem to make the stovetop variety. Anyway, I bought this one (the only other choice was the same model in white):<\/p>\n Notice the electric\u00a0base, which replaces a stovetop burner.<\/p>\n Capsule coffee makers have really caught on here. There were at least 20 different ones for sale at Cactus. They are, however, substantially more expensive. The cheapest one at Cactus was about US$150.<\/p>\n Aside from buying groceries and a moka pot, my other accomplishment at Cactus was to get a Cactus Card (or a carte client<\/em>). It took awhile because I didn’t know the proper French term and what I was saying apparently could also mean a Cactus gift card. Lesson here: if you read something online in English, be sure to look at the French version as well.<\/p>\n I got back to my apartment around 18:00 and was going to stay in when I recalled what the Assistant Dean had told the students: do not keep going to the same places; even if you have only an hour, you can go to a new-to-you town and have a coffee and come back in time for class. Since my bus\/train ticket was still good, I decided to head off to Luxembourg City. Now the City has two major parts, the Gare<\/em> and the\u00a0Stad<\/em>\u00a0districts. The latter has the\u00a0Grand-Rue<\/em> where we had visited earlier in the week. As its name suggests, the\u00a0Gare<\/em> area includes\u00a0the train station. The two areas are connected by two bridges. I wandered around the Gare<\/em> area\u00a0for about an hour before heading back to the train station. As I walked around, I stumbled across another Domino establishment:<\/p>\n You might be able to tell from the green sign that it’s for sale. Hmm\u2026<\/p>\n This brings me back, more or less, to the beginning of the post. About two\u00a0hours after I got home, the power went out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was about to start blogging last night at 22h\u00a0when the power went out. Fortunately, power outage lights had been installed just last year so I was able to walk around the Ch\u00e2teau. The power was restored several hours later. Since it was just the\u00a0Ch\u00e2teau that was affected, I’ll be curious to learn what happened. … Continue reading 28 August<\/span> ![\"My](\"https:\/\/briandomino.com\/mudec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/My-moka-pot-300x290.jpg\")
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