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We owe great thanks to our Committee Member Dan Schmidt for organising this enriching tour of the Luxembourg Parliament. We were a select group of around 15 members which ensured that there was ample opportunity to ask questions – and questions, lots of questions, were asked and answered. While we were taken through the impressively restored rooms of the Parliament, we learned about the legislative process, the work of the parliamentary committees, the composition of the parliament and much, much more. Afterwards, we retreated to the nearby Bistrot de la Presse for a fun and informal meal together. What a jewel of an event!

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Invitation:

We are delighted to invite you to an exclusive tour of Luxembourg Parliament on Tuesday 20 October 2026. During this visit, you will be able to learn from parliamentary insiders about the history and organisation of the institution.  

After the tour, there is an optional dinner at the Luxembourgish restaurant Bistrot de la Presse, just across from the Parliament.

These are the details:

Venue: the Parliament Building, 19 Rue du Marché-aux-Herbes, 1728 Ville-Haute Luxembourg

The parliament recommends that our group should have no more than 15-20 attendees, hence first come, first served.

Timing:

            Parliament: We will be meeting at 17:50 in front of the Luxembourg Parliament building will begin at 18:00. The tour lasts approximately an hour. Don’t forget to bring ID.
            Dinner(following the tour): at nearby Restaurant Bistro de la Presse, 24 Rue du Marché-aux-Herbes, 1728 Ville-Haute Luxembourg. This is optional, but if you wish to join the dinner as well, please let Dan Schmit (see below) know, in order that sufficient spaces can be reserved.

Tickets: Admission is free, but registration is required.  

Sign-up: Please sign up before 10 October 2026 with Dan Schmit (dan-schmit@hotmail.com), cc to chair@oxford.lu indicating whether: 

1. You wish to join the guided tour only
2. You wish to join the guided tour and go for informal dinner (within walking distance – details will follow) afterwards.

INFO: For any additional questions, please contact Dan Schmit (dan-schmit@hotmail.com) 

With best wishes,

Your OUSL Committee

According to our super-golfers it was a great day at Belenhaff – and the dark blues won!!

Our member, Peter Carter, has this glowing report:

Thank you all for helping make a perfect day. For the record, Oxford now hold the Varsity Golf Challenge Cup. The results are given below. A (return) challenge can be entered by Cambridge no sooner than 6 months from now. It will be played to the same format : team scramble stableford. Junglinster : played over 12 holes, in lovely autumn weather, on 17th October 2026 Cambridge I : 20 Stableford Point; gross 65 strokes Cambridge II : 29 pts, 53 strokes Oxford I : 34 pts, 48 strokes (Par for Course holes 1-12, 49) The Sir Nicholas Golden Putter for closest the pin was not awarded ! I look forward to the next Challenge. BW Peter.

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Invitation:

This is the second Annual Golf Tournament kindly initiated by our member Peter Carter and co-organised this year with John Speed and Sir Nicholas Forwood of Camsoc, together with OUSL’s VP, Jan Könighaus.

We will meet 15h at the Belenhaff Junglinster and enjoy an afternoon of golf which will be followed by optional dinner.

All levels welcome.

12 HOLES (85 EUR) PAIRS, BETTER BALL

SUPPER AT THE CLUBHOUSE (60 EUR/MENU)
(non-playing spouses included for supper)To confirm or reconfirm participation, please send an email to Peter Carter (prcarter1111@gmail.com)  indicating names of player(s) and diner(s), copied to Sir Nicholas Forward (nforwood@gmail.com) and me  (jan.koenighaus@kkr.lu). If you did not provide your HCP and golf club affiliation in response to the call for interest at the beginning of July, please do so now in your email. 

When you receive an acknowledgement from Peter, you will be asked to transfer to the OUSL Bank Account (IBAN LU21 0019 1755 3010 3000 BIC/SWIFT BCEELULLXXX) the appropriate amount for the green fees (€85 per person) to be marked “Golf Varsity”.

The detailed arrangements for the supper will follow. As the group will be relatively small, we can pay individually on the night. An indicative menu with costs will be available.

For any further information please contact Peter Carter.

This was two hours of information on Ukraine and not one minute was a minute too many! There was a strong audience with members of OUSL, Camsoc and BLS among them.

We are grateful to H.E. Joanne Olivier, for including us in this important and enlightening event.

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Invitation

Dear Member,

We are delighted to bring you this invitation on behalf of the British Embassy in Luxembourg. 

Venue: Bibliothèque nationale (BnL) – Luxembourg, 37D, Avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855, Kirchberg, Luxembourg.

Timing: Registration: 15.30.  Start (prompt!): 16.00, finish: 18.00.

Tickets: While the event is free, admission is by personal sign-up only. Plus 1’s are welcome subject to availability. Write to chair@oxford.lu.

Sign-up: Please sign up as soon as possible with chair@oxford.lu to avoid disappointment. Once we have received your sign-up, we will transfer your email address to the embassy and you will receive a personal invitation from them. Your place is not secured until this process has been finished. 

Looking forward to seeing you at this urgent discussion, 

With best wishes, 

– and on behalf of the OUSL Committee,

Mette Ahlefeldt-Laurvig

President of OUSL 

We had a great Croquet day in the City on this Sunny Sunday!! As you can also see on LinkedIn, we had a lovely bunch of Oxford and Cambridge alumni, friends, families and Freshers gathered in Parc Pescatore for our annual Oxbridge Croquet in the City.

There was a wonderfully relaxed atmosphere as Light and Dark Blues tried their hands at croquet, with varying degrees of expertise!

Crémant and soft drinks, cakes and other treats kept everyone going between games, and it was particularly good to welcome some of this year’s new Oxbridge students alongside familiar faces from both societies.

Many thanks to our friends at the Cambridge Society of Luxembourg, and especially to Rakesh Bhana-Lauer, for organising the whole afternoon, to Fanny Dedenbach for bringing the essential equipment, and so once again making this such an enjoyable annual Oxbridge tradition.

A lovely way to spend an unexpectedly summery September Sunday in Luxembourg

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Invitation:

It is time to brush up on your croquet skills, as this is the month of the annual Oxbridge meet-up, arranged by Camsoc: a fun afternoon of croquet, drinks and chat. We are waiting for the City Council to confirm a date to Camsoc, but it will be announced as soon as we have it.

Those who wish then round off the ‘sports’ with a pizza nearby. Freshers from both societies are particularly welcome.

The rules of croquet will be recapped before we begin, so all can participate – and you can also just have a drink and chat.

When? : Sunday 27 September 2026 at 14h30
Where? : at Parc Pescatore in the middle of Luxembourg
What to bring? : Camsoc will bring along the equipment to play croquet, a few drinks and some reusable plastic glasses. Please feel free to bring along some nibbles, drinks, picnic gear, etc.

Post-croquet dinner: those who feel famished after the sports usually go to for an informal meal together at a nearby Italian restaurant.

Sign-up with Camsoc: rakeshbhana@yahoo.com, cc to chair@oxford.lu

Parc Pescatore

It’s time to factor in the annual Meeting Minds Weekend in Oxford. As usual it is packed with irrisistible talks, workshops, guided tours and more. Over three days, you’ll have the chance to hear from the researchers tackling the world’s biggest challenges, revisit places both familiar and new, and connect with fellow members of the Oxford community. 

Bringing together curious minds across generations, this is a uniquely Oxford opportunity to explore the ideas shaping our collective future. 

Whether you’re returning for the first time in years or a regular visitor, you’ll discover how Oxford continues to change lives around the world – and how you can play a part in its future. 

For info click here

If you are planning to attend, you may wish to let us know (chair@oxford.lu). We will keep a list of Oxford alumni who are going so that you can connect with one another.

Well met in Oxford!

Insead has kindly extended an invitation to Oxford and Cambridge to participate in a leisurely cruise on the Mosel, enjoying a good drink and nice finger food .

This will be a great chance to meet our colleagues from Insead for a relaxed evening aboard the iconic MS Princesse Marie-Astrid – the very same boat where the Schengen Agreement was famously signed.

Date and Time:
18h30-22h

Tickets: €85.00 (there may be a very small surcharge from Eventbrite). Tickets include drinks and finger food.

Sign-up and Payment: Kindly click here to sign up. If you like, you might wish to send us a quick email (chair@oxford.lu) to tell us you have signed up, so we know how many of our ‘own’ will join.

Location:
MS Princesse Marie Astrid
10 Rte du Vin
6794 Grevenmacher
Luxembourg

For all additional information kindly contact Prash Chandrasekharm, Chair of Insead, on: prashanth.chandrasekhar@insead.edu

We had a great Freshers Dinner at Chiche where OUSL committee members and representatives of our staunch mock interviewers joined us in welcoming four of our seven new students at Oxford.

We had the joy of meeting two freshers and two postgrad students: Maria, Rüzgar, Lisa and Jemima over a glass of wine (or water!) and a wealth of delicious platters of Lebanese food to share.

The conversation ranged from studies, Luxembourg, politics, and not least the importance of Oxford pubs!

We wish our new freshers and postgrads all the best luck and prosperity during their time in Oxford!

Our new students at Oxford!

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Thank you all for coming!!

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Invitation:

In line with our long-established tradition we are inviting our new freshers for an informal Dinner at Chiche! together with committee members, mock-interviewers and other who have helped with education and outreach.

This is an informal and congenial evening where we get to toast the new students and wish them all the best for their forthcoming studies. We also hope to foster a lasting bond so that we can stay in contact with the students and reconnect when/if they return to Luxembourg.

This year, the main organiser of the OUSL Freshers Dinner is our committee member for Outreach, Dan Schmit. Should you have any questions please contact Dan Schmit, and chair@oxford.lu.

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I am proud to say that we had a simply wonderful evening at Cercle Munster last night, 17 Sep. 2026! Co-hosted by Cercle Munster and OUSL, with Cercle Munster generously sponsoring the music, we were delighted to welcome 44 members and guests, young and old, for a superb performance by Duo Natalia. Natalia van der Mersch (violin) and Natalia Kovalzon (piano) kept us spellbound as we journeyed together through the romantic music of Dvořák, Franck, Kreisler and Wieniawski to the jazz-inspired Ravel, ending with the bravura encore of Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance.

The concert was followed by a lively cocktail and dinner in one of Cercle Munster‘s freshly redecorated banquet rooms. What a way to open the autumn season!

Many thanks to Duo Natalia, to Cercle Munster, and to everyone who joined us.

Below, a little picture cavalcade:

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Invitation:

You know them from their many concerts and recordings and we had a ten-minute taster of their art at the Tripartite Dinner last year at the Golf Club Grand-Ducal. I promised you then to broker a proper concert and this is now done!

So do join us (plus 1’s are welcome) on Saturday 12 September 2026:

Timing: Welcome: 16h45 | Concert: 17h | Cocktail: 18h15 | Dinner: 19h: 

Dress Code: Jacket & Tie

Sign-up: please register with chair@oxford.lu, with cc to reservation@munster.lu

Payment: €110/ticket. Once your space(s) has/have been confirmed you will be asked to settle the payment in favour of OUSL.

See this link for a glowing review from Duo Natalia’s concert in Vienna in Bösendorfer Salon, Wien

Once again, we were invited to join Cambridge for the annual Oxbridge Fish Dinner at Schueberfouer.

And once again, it was a convivial and cheerful crowd of Light and Dark Blues – around twenty in all. Thanks a lot to John Speed of Camsoc for continuing to arrange this festive, annual get-together.

See Camsoc’s invitation below:

Although we don’t tend to have Oxbridge Drinks over the Summer, John Speed is kindly arranging one in July – so do join us for some summer drinks at Atmos.

Venue: Atmos Bar. 32 Rue de la Poste, 2346 Ville-Haute Luxembourg

Date & Time: Thursday 30 July, 19h

Sign-up: This is necessary in order to book enough seats, so please write to John Speed on president@cambridgesociety.lu, with a cc to chair@oxford.lu.