I travelled the length and breadth of Luxembourg by bus – and it didn’t cost me a penny | Luxembourg holidays

I I am not sure more surprising me when I got out of the train at Luxembourg main station – the absolute friendliness of the locals who seem to live everyone passing through a cheerful who (Hi), or the fact that I will not pay from this point a single film to travel with the length and breadth of the Great Duchy.

Five years ago, Luxembourg became the first country in the world to actively deal with carbon fingerprint by making all public transportation free for all, including tourists. So I came to see how he was working in practice, with the aim of traveling to the well -known vineyard farms in the country that embraces the slopes along the Moselle River and then the journey through the mysterious grooves and the foresthal forests.

The bus 412 leaves from outside the station. Nobody asks about a ticket, and soon we leave the city, and corporate offices for the likes of Google and Amazon, behind it. It takes only one hour to reach Remich, one of several villages in the rural wine industry that lines the picturesque chrome farms at a distance of 26 miles (42 km) from Moselle.

Luxembourg produces wine in this small region since the Roman era, and today visitors can choose 50 independent wine factories, and they offer a taste of elegant receording, and aromatic Pinot Gris, and unknown local white grapes such as Rivanner and Lelling, as well as a selected group of exams.

There are a lot of reasonable hotels and camping sites along the Luxembourg wine road. Check in Remith’s Smart CASA49 (Marital from 100 euros), whose rooms offer great views on Moselle as giant lists in the past. The first station is almost in the neighborhood, in history Caves St. MartinWhose excellent rounds accompanied by guides (9.50 euros) are the ideal introduction to local wine. The tour takes us through a maze of underground exhibitions, along with the cliff a century ago, when the ages of tens of thousands of Crémant bottles range in the wake of the same complex methods such as champagne.

It is tempting to jump on the scenic landscape One -hour cruise From the moselle that leaves from Quayside in Remich, but I booked a taste in Domaine KoxOne of the most innovative wine factories in Luxembourg. It is difficult to imagine the young wine maker more committed to the fourth -generation environmental responsibility Corin Cox. She told me that the wine prefers hybrid grapes because it is more resistant, so you need a much lower treatment and thus less use of tractor, which leads to a decrease in carbon fingerprint. “For the same reason, we shorten exports to 20 %, while for grape harvesting, we use local families instead of bringing in transient foreign work. The more we can, the horses are used to work on the ground instead of the tractors roaming gasoline,” she says. The small generosity of 12 hectares (30 acres) produces 30 different wine, the visitors can taste a blind taste (five cups for 20 euros).

Later that day, I walk along the water side to the traditional Deir Torrell Restaurant in the next village. Specializations here WäinzoossissGrilled sausage is compatible with Risling, served with Luxembourg Fritz, and homemade control KneddelenDumple served in creamy sauce with crunchy bacon. This is a completely delicious comfortable food served in huge parts.

The next day, the bus leads to the old village of Ahn, where one of the long -distance walking methods begins in Luxembourg. the Traumschleife Palmberg Wine and Nature Trail It is a 5.6 miles journey that takes in the sloping chrome chrome bordered by the sharp stone slopes, lush forests and a natural reserve of ancient balm wood and wild orchid meadows. The path ends after the Valley of the Donuorbach River, which you must intersect with half a scale of slippery bridges. Three hours later we returned to Ahn, at the right time to taste it in Schmit-FohlAn independent wine factory in the seventh generation of family ownership.

It takes two hours, including changing the bus, to reach Berdorf, in the middle of the Mullerthal area, which is called the local population proudly Switzerland Luxembourg. with 70 miles of nature pathsMullerthal is a paradise for outdoor sports lovers, many of whom use The Brilliant path As their boss. “If you just make one trip, it should be Trail B2Our guide says, Jian Marco Bartolini. The 2.5-mile height, which begins on the edge of Birdorf, makes an unforgettable adventure on our way through a maze of forests and forests, dignity and superconditions, which are divided into highly separate stone constellations by distress that can end. Public transportation scheme It gives the time to Berdorf 211 bus, which brought us back to Luxembourg in less than an hour, with a lot of time to prepare our connection to the high -speed TGV train to Paris.

The trip was organized by Visit Luxembourg