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Maastricht Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Maastricht, Netherlands
Settling In
-During the first couple days in Maastricht, we unpacked, had orientation, toured the city, became very acquainted with the local bars, and took a bike tour to Belgium, as the border is only a 15 minute bike ride from the city ...
Trundling down towards Aachen and Koln
We 'trundled down past Maastricht towards Germany. The deviations were big ones but we still were able to make good time! The scenery was worth the deviations though. We past by some wonderful little towns and river gorges. Very nice bit of countryside. ...
Maastricht & Nijmegen
... , my art history teacher took a group of us to the city of Maastricht, one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands. Maastricht is both quaint and majestically medieval, but even better than the aesthetics is the fascinating history behind the stunning ...
Maastricht
... Certraal Station, we went to an Indonesian restaurant Tuesday (today), we left Amsterdam and headed to Maastricht -- one of the southernmost cities of the Netherlands and one of the few areas that has hills. We mostly just wandered around town taking ...
Maastricht - Day Two
The ladies (Renee, Karin, and Kim) met us at our hotel this morning so we could sight see and shop around Maastricht together. We saw Vrijthof Square, Theater aan het Vrijthof, Basilica of Saint Servatius (we toured the treasure rooms), churches ...
The longest hitching in my life
... him up at 10:00 on 3rd of June. 28 hours of hitching was over. 800Km in 13 cars. Was fucking tired. We talked a bit, I had some dutch waffles and easily fell asleep. Afterwards Toms showed me around in Maastricht, a nice, small town. ...
Arriving in Maastricht
... through the province of Limburgh, in which Maastricht resides. This is a Roman walled city, the oldest in The Netherlands, established in the 13th century. The population is approximately 150,000, with dense population in the city and farms ...
The Pelgrim's Key Question
... the time for that this time). So we have decided to to the Pelgrim's path from Vise (we'll cheat a little and start in Maastricht) toward Amsterdam. So the answer to the key question appears to be pretty much in line with the answer we were all given in ...
The Prince of Carnival
After our adventures in Belgium, we decided to take a day trip up to Maastricht, located in the Netherlands. Maastricht is the closest town to Belgium in the Netherlands with a train stop. It is where the Treaty of Maastricht was signed (go ...
End of Fairy tales
I'm back in Maastricht for a few days. It's my last week of my Fairy Tale Class so I have just enought time to do my laudry, get some sleep, some real food, and take my final before I fly into Rome on ...
Zondag en toch soldendag
Alvorens naar huis weer te keren beslissen we om na het ontbijt richting Maastricht te rijden. Een leuke stad om de dag door te brengen. Niet echt super zomer maar toch droog met wat zon.De lunch gebruiken we op een plein vol terrasjes bij een ...
Maastricht
... medieval town surrounded by castle walls and moat. It played a significant role as host city to the Maastricht Treaty which was a precursor for the development of the European Economic Community agreements which quickly followed its ...
Saturday
well i discovered i can't load my pictures directly onto the computers in the lab so until i figure out how to use my computer over here there's no dice. Last night the town was really busy, it was a friday night so everyone was out, we went dancing and ...
0 for 2
this saturday we spent in maastricht... or more accurately, spent getting to maastricht... i'll write more about it later... but for now i have to work on my project... ...
The start of a rollercoaster Ride
... ;a clever title, I opted for the cliched 'rollercoaster ride' that can be used to describe anyone's adventure into a new city. Maastricht, Netherlands. To be honest, I knew next to nothing about the Netherlands, let alone the city of Maastricht. The ...
European Education VS US Education
Problem Based Learning Despite what you might have expected, I did come to the Netherlands with a certain agenda. Intrigued by the set up of my university (Maastricht University, faculty: University College Maastricht), which is based on a PBL ...
Explore Day
... were respected by car drivers and everyone. Even passers-by gave them priority on zebra crossings when they saw an approaching bike. The Netherlands seemed a quite and safe place for me on my first day as well. On the way to Zsofi's home, she explained ...
Hot in Maastricht
... that help us get people attention.) We woke up early this morning (yes it can be done) and started our journey to the Netherlands. We checked the weather, a high of 35C, and with that we grabbed our shorts, water, and reactine (you wouldn't believe the ...
May 10, 2011
NOT COMPLETE
Finally....HEY! It's been three weeks in Maastricht now. This is my 2nd entry it's pretty lame, I know. But my life has never been the way it is now, it has taken a while to get used to things around here. The days feel very short and I never have enough ...
Maastricht
Tuesday, 6/22 Today we walked into the city of Maastricht, about a 20 minute walk. The small front gardens of the houses are full of flowers, most are familiar varieties that we also find in WA & OR. Every so often we would see a miniature ...
Na severu
Čas za drugi projektni sestanek. Po pregledu budgeta sem ugotovila, da imamo denarja na voljo več, kot ga lahko porabimo, zato sem na srečanje povabila še Majo, predstavnico Zavoda za zaposlovanje, ki je lahko vsebinsko dopolnila temo ...
Maastricht
... architecture. Also we were there for so long that we got hungry and I had my first experience with eating out in the Netherlands. I ordered a hamburger and fries and it was just that! Crazy huh? The only difference is a hamburger is just the patty with ...
Sunday afternoon
Went down to the sparrow to play pool, the game is very different and of course they have very different rules. the balls are yellow and red and it's and the sparrow is so small that usually you are right up against the walls. We had ribs and curly ...