The
Luxembourg scene
Luxembourg
- The green heart of Europe
Unfortunately,
playing paintball is not allowed in Luxembourg, so there is no site where
you could go and hire material to try it out. We are lucky though that
there are four good sites in the near border region, two in France, one
in Belgium and one in Germany, namely Vickring, Bockange, Grandcourt and
Bitburg.
The
place where I and my fellow paintball fanatics live is marked by the red
zone in the south of Luxembourg, so we lie in between the four sites, they
are maximum 70km from our homes and easy to reach. So that's where we play.
The
four sites are quite different from one another, so here's a brief description
of them :
Veckring&Bockange
The sites in Veckring and Bockange were once army bases that are
out of order for years already. Some good guys bought the grounds and made
them into paintball fields, so you have a lot of ruins (what remains
of the army buildings) to play in, that's quite interesting, it is lots
of fun. They also both have speedball-fields.
In
Bockange there's a shop where you can buy Paintball equipment, that site
is all in all worth a visit.
Grandcourt
This site is situated in the heart of a huge forest, so it is all outdoors,
and the play is very different there than in Veckring, but very interesting
as well.
Grandcourt
coordinates (for reservations of for ordering equipment) :
Shop
and field owner :
E.B.S.
PHILIPPE Olivier
13, rue St. Hubert
B-6782 Bébange |
Telelphone and Fax number :
0032 63385739 |
Bitburg
This site is said to be great as well, but I never went there so far, so
I cannot yet judge that. I hope however to be soon able to give a statement
about that site (after finally having played there).
We
go play as often as we can, which is not very often as most of us are still
students that cannot afford playing more than 1-2 times per month. But
we have more and more people intersted in the game, so authorities in Luxembourg
should think of allowing a site in Luxembourg too, for paintball is booming
in Luxembourg - like it everywhere does. That Paintball is called "sport
of the 90's" must have a few good reasons, or am I wrong?