Opening things up tonight is a Beatles tribute band, but the real ‘belle of the ball’ is the appearance on Saturday night of the fantastic Aussie, Abba tribute band, Björn Again.

On the first Sunday of July every year, the lithe and athletic get themselves, and if they have them, their lithe and athletic children down to the Kirchberg, for what has become something of a fixture in the Luxembourg sporting/cultural calendar.

Alf was, in some ways, ahead of his time. Many marathon runners will ‘carbo-load’ in the week leading up to the marathon. He just crammed it all in five minutes before the race started.