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Life as a trainee at the European Parliament
With little more than a month left in Luxembourg (it’s going so fast!), I realised that I haven’t written much about what this...

Abby
Apr 30, 20152 min read
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Christmas Countdown – Number 3
Something I have really enjoyed in Luxembourg are the beautiful sunsets, as have my colleagues (here are two of them enjoying a romantic...

Abby
Dec 22, 20141 min read
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Christmas countdown – Number 9
This is the part where the list gets quite subjective! My biased number 9 is the European Quarter, in Kirchberg. The Parliament...

Abby
Dec 16, 20141 min read
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Luxembourg in the snow
Luxembourg got a light dusting of snow last week, so the city looked even more beautiful than usual.

Abby
Dec 11, 20141 min read
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Traineeship trip to Brussels
Our next traineeship trip was to Brussels, where the European Parliament has its second seat. Unlike the Strasbourg trip, this was only a...

Abby
Dec 9, 20142 min read
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Strasbourg – politics, the Pope and Flammkuchen
It’s a lazy Sunday in Luxembourg. After a fun but cold day exploring the Christmas markets in Trier, I enjoyed sleeping in this morning...

Abby
Dec 7, 20143 min read
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Trips from Luxembourg
One of my favourite things about Luxembourg is that it’s a great base for travelling! Yesterday I went on a hike in Echternach with some...

Abby
Nov 23, 20141 min read
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An update – life in the editing unit
It’s hard to believe that I’ve already been living and working in Luxembourg for a month and a half! The good news is that my traineeship...

Abby
Nov 19, 20142 min read
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‘Do you do simultaneous translation?’
I have now completed my first week as a trainee! OK, so my contract technically started on 1st October, but for the first two weeks our...

Abby
Oct 19, 20142 min read
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Settling in
Moving to another country now seems like a routine process; the suitcase-dragging through airports and streets, getting used to...

Abby
Oct 5, 20142 min read
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New job, new blog!
Well, I decided to start a blog! Thanks for dropping by! I have been toying with the idea of starting a blog for a while as a way to keep...

Abby
Sep 21, 20142 min read
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