86
87
LIFESTYLE
EXPATS
Text by JESS BAULDRY
Photography by MIKE ZENARI
An Americanurg in Luxembo fanatic e to Luxembourg, cycle When he followed his wif t regardless how long he stayed, Mike McQuaide knew thangs he couldn’t live without. there were just some this he brought and what he left behind. He talks about the thing
“The Catch er in the R ye is the on book I can sa ly What I get fr y I’ve read multiple tim om es. th at book is a I thought, ho voice. write a book ly shit, you’re allowed to he’s just talk like that! He star ts off lik I shoot for w ing to me. That is wha e t hen I write.”
IN MY SUITECASE SUITCASE
MIKE MCQUAIDE Mike came to Luxembourg in February 2013 from Bellingham, Washington, where he worked as an outdoor recreational reporter for the Seattle Times. “My wife got a job here. We were up for a European adventure,” he says. A cycling fan, Mike previously knew about Luxembourg because of the Schleck brothers. “I think people like the story of these two brothers from tiny Luxembourg slaying the riders from all of the other countries.” He is known for his Facebook persona “An American in Luxembourg”, an account showing an American’s impression of Luxembourg, which he said he started to show friends in Bellingham what Europe was like. “Pretty soon it was mostly all Luxembourgers following it or a lot more Europeans than people from Bellingham. I’m sure they’ve forgotten about me.” June 2017
ths, here for six mon only going to be have two: I’m if en ev t “I though d I had to ke just ve my bikes an I still had to ha s, dirt and mud, and a road bi od wo n.” one for the fa avid road bike because I’m an