Your first week in Belval
Six things you will need, and the reason behind each answer.
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Your first week in Belval
Six things you will need, in the order you will need them.
No favourites. Every answer here comes with the reason, so you can disagree with it.
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1 · The everyday shop
You will want bread before you want a view. Delhaize is inside Belval Plaza, so the weekly shop can share a trip with the post office and the chemist, and it stays open latest on a Sunday.
It reopened on 27 August after a three week refit, which is why it looks newer than everything around it.
- Today, 20 October
- 7:30–20:00
- Sunday 25 October
- 7:30–19:00
- Also open Sunday
- A-Market until 17:00, ALDI only until 13:00
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2 · Somewhere to sit
Named because it is the only one. Belval has four outdoor landmarks and exactly one park, so there is no choice to make here.
A playground, a Teqball table, and nine holes of disc golf that are free if you bring your own discs. Under the grass is the old Source Bel-Val, bottled and sent abroad long before the steelworks took the name.
- Open
- 24 hours, every day, holidays included
- Where
- 2 passage Pablo Picasso, Belvaux
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3 · The one you will photograph
Also the only one. The university was built around the furnaces rather than beside them, and one of them is open to walk up.
The route starts in the Möllerei and follows the path the ore once took. There is a lift for part of the climb. Check before you set out on a windy day.
- Today, 20 October
- Closed
- Sunday 25 October
- 10:00–19:00
- Cost
- €
- Coming up
- Guided tour, Sunday 20 September, 14:30
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4 · Coffee
Saturday is fine. Sunday is the problem.
Of the ten cafés listed in Belval, nine open on a Saturday, so that day looks after itself.
Sunday is the one to plan around. Two open it in an ordinary week, and the hours below are today’s, so a closure shows up here before you walk over.
- Golden Bean
- Sunday 25 October · 9:00–19:00
- Pavillon Belval
- Sunday 25 October · 16:00–22:00
- Saturday
- Nine of the ten, from 7:30 at the earliest to 22:00 at the latest
- Before you walk over
- Hours move. Open on a Sunday is worked out from them each time you load it
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5 · Getting about
Second class public transport is free for journeys inside Luxembourg, including the train that brought you here. That covers most of what a first week asks of you.
For the rest there is the Haus vum Vëlo beside the station, which is the only community bicycle workshop here: tools out, second-hand bikes, cargo bikes to try, and volunteers who teach you to fix your own.
- Today, 20 October
- 16:00–20:00
- Sunday 25 October
- Closed
- Students
- There is a discount, so ask
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6 · Everything else
The only shopping centre, so again no choice to make. Chemist, optician, post office, phone shop, cinema: the place you end up when something has gone wrong and you need it fixed today.
It shuts on Sundays like almost everything else here, bar a handful of Sundays a year.
- Today, 20 October
- 10:00–20:00
- Sunday 25 October
- 10:00–18:00
- The exceptions
- A few Sunday openings a year, announced in advance
- Parking
- One hour free, two once you have bought something
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Before you are caught out
Three things nobody warns you about
The rest of your first week, in the order it usually goes wrong.
- Sunday
- Luxembourg closes properly. Supermarkets open; of ten cafés, two.
- Transport
- Free in second class anywhere in the country. First class and the far side of a border crossing still need a ticket.
- August
- Half of Belval shuts for two or three weeks and rarely announces it far in advance.
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