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  MARVELOUS MAYHEM IN MAASTRICHT   Saturday evening, at the Amsterdam TravBuddy Meetup, I was fortunate to sit at the same table with Sanne (sannekoek) and Raphke (Raphje) at Humphrey's. During our dinner, I asked the gals if they would be willing to show a crazy American around their hometown of Maastricht if I took a train there the next day.   They graciously volunteered to give me a Sunday tour of Maastricht. Little did I know how mar...

What shall I tell you? I don't like to write because I can't express myself good enough in English or Dutch. And besides that I don't like to make some people jealous with my stories about the meeting how great, fun, tremendous, enormous, fabulous et cetera it was. Maybe you can view the pictures of my 'blog' and ofcourse don't forget to read and view the other 'blogs' from the people who join this great event... I want to thank all the TBs who joined Lauros Meetup. www.travbuddy.com/s...

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Carnaval in Maastricht is one of the most important party's of the year! Sunday at 11.11 a.m. It wil begin with bring the mooswief (symbol of carnaval in maastricht) up to 4 meters high and 11 canonshots at the Vrijthof, one of the squares in Maastricht. After that ceremony the parade will begin at 1.11 pm en the ending of the parade is later than 6.00 pm.After the parade everybody is hanging out on the street for 3 days long. Dancing, singing, drinking etc. Every street in the centre of Maas...

Vanmorgen probeerden we om een uur of acht op te staan om zo een uur later te kunnen ontbijten. Het ontbijt was een continental breakfast wat we ons goed lieten smaken. Ma en ik gingen zelfs voor een 2e ronde. Nog even tanden poetsen en daarna de tassen inpakken en naar beneden naar de receptie. Hier rekende ik af en mochten we de bagage even achter slot en grendel neerzetten zodat we de handen vrij hadden om nog even Maastricht in te gaan.   Het was nog een beetje mistig toen we op p...

one day trip to Maastricht....i had a great ime with 2 greek friends Fotini and Magda...The decoration for the x mas was fantastic!!!lots of fun...great food...great people...

One of the few places that I still really wanted to go to in the Netherlands was Maastricht, a small city tucked a very long way away near France and Germany and even further away than Belgium.  But I hadn't got around to it yet, until my friend from work, Leti, offered to show me round, and even pointed out I could save money by getting a discounted all day ticket from the Blokker store in town.  Hooray!  After a remarkably smooth trip to the station, we met up and got on the ...

I'm now halfway through my third year in Europe and things are constantly still amazing and exciting me. I see that the focus of my travelling has changed and I've grown alot since I first set out. Here's a few things I've been up to recently.

Photos from trip to Netherlands:)

een jaartje geleden alweer., maar toch ook wel een memorabele vakantie -uitstapje, zoals u wilt. Vakantie in eigen land blijft leuk. Ook al woon je dan ik een klein landje dat officieel half onder water had moeten staan. In de meivakantie van 2007 was het dan zover, want om het heug'lijke feit te vieren dat mijn ouders 25 jaar alweer getrouwd waren, gingen we met zijn allen (= 5) naar Zuid Limburg. Van het Groene hart (afvoerputje) naar het Dak van Nederland. Leuk hotel, aardige mensen blabla...

Most memorable adventure!!! Finished;)) It was really funny! This was my only holiday in 2006 and I really enjoyed it, I went to Germany, a friend of mine was a student there. We made a lot of trips to some cities... Enjoy!:)

Exciting traveling around NL with car and tent! There are so much more things beyond too touristic Amsterdam and regular travelers spots to discover in there. I loved it! (ahh..still need to edit and add photos)

Viva la France!

Started off the day with a quick stop by Achelse Kluis (see earlier journal entry) and then went down to Maastricht to see some of the sights I had seen on the bus tour in the snow in February.  Walked through the university area, past some of the old Roman ruins and along the city walls by the river.  Brief stop by Valkenburg on the way home...but alas, once again, too late to go into the castle ruins!

We don't have really great landscapes or worldfamous buildings.. but the Netherlands is a very nice country!