There’s a particular type of travel smugness that comes with telling people you’ve been to Luxembourg City. Not because it’s difficult to get to — it isn’t — but because most people you meet haven’t been, and the ones who have tend to look at you with that knowing smile.

Luxembourg doesn’t always make the shortlist when families are planning a European road trip. It gets overshadowed by its louder neighbors — Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels. And honestly? I used to overlook it too. Then I spent four days there with two kids under ten, a rented Renault, and absolutely no