Hotel In Den Hoof Maastricht

... I put warm cherries on top!"
"Excellent, I thought I might have missed out,it's getting late."
"Ah, I know you coming!" he said cheerily
I got two scoops of Cherries (as it was the end of the night) and a plastic fork that was wholly unfit for the task so after several muinutes the citzens of Maastricht got to witness me consuming a cherry laden waffle by hand - messily, fortunately my friend the waffle man had also given me a napkin ...

... I can still hear the cars - I keep missing sentences because of them)
It dulled over as the day went on but I kept the hammer down and even a bit of light rain couldn't stop me. Although some of the roads slowed me down (it was almost reassuring to see second rate public services again). I made only one wrong turn in Opglabeek (I missed As in what must have been very similar to yesterday's 'Eindhoven' incident (I leave it to readers to devise their own jokes ...

... suspect that I may already have been coming down with something, as I will explain later. On my first day there, I met their lovely housekeeper Monica, and her daughter Jamie. Jamie is in Year 12 and just attempting to gain entry to Oxford University - quite an initimidating concept, and we had a good talk about what she wanted to study (philosophy, economics and politics) and what Oxford wants her to do to gain entry. All 5 of us went out for a nice Chinese/Japanese lunch, and ...

... the best and then Marisha the Australian opera singer came out and sang It is time to say good bye, more tears. The applause was so big that she ended up singing the last chorus again. I could rave on and on it was just so good and what a high light to finish our holiday on. We didn’t get back to our hotel until well after 1am but of course we were on such a high that I didn’t get to sleep until after three.

So, how did I get to Maastricht, you might ask? Well, I had met my host in Switzerland my first weekend in Europe and he suggested I come to his beautiful home town. I have found that as much as I like doing some touristy things, I enjoy more getting to know people and going to places locals go to ...

... we came outside it was dark and the cathedral was all lit up! The cathedral was beautiful! We were exhausted and having a hard time comprehending everything we had seen, but stopped for some French Onion Soup at a little café. Then we headed to our hotel for the evening. What a wonderful day! Day two-We got up early to start another exciting day! I had a restless nights sleep-I was pretty sick while we were in Paris. I got a cold and was feeling pretty miserable, but I was ...

After driving round in circles - literally - by the time we eventually parked in Maastrict we knew its ring road very well. The first car park we tried to find using the Tom Tom no longer existed, so we decided to follow the road signs for "Centre East" open air parking. We followed these carefully for several km and then they simply vanished to be replaced by signs for parking ...

... joined who is a student exchange from Finland. So we went to the festivities first thinking of finding Sander but we had to forget that idea since it was way too crowdy. I talked with every one of them and with Maria especially during the afternoon, but even more during the evening. Later, Laura joined us and as a surprised Arjen arrived as well (HC:dikkeharry) whom it was great to meet again! The beers flew and I personnally hadn ...

(Originally published at http://www.troysgonewalkabout.com)
< br>The slight morning drizzle did not hamper us from exploring the centre of Maastricht, and it felt nice to be amongst the local goings-on in the busy market square. But, although we were enjoying being in the midst of life on the other side of the world from where we were born and raised, Amber and I soon got a surprise reminder of home. In a park on ...

Dit is de start van een nieuw leven! Een jaar lang weg uit de omgeving die voor mij gedurende 18 jaar zo bekend is geworden. Die bekende omgeving ga ik nu verlaten en ga nieuwe horizonten opzoeken. Spannend? Eng? Ik denk een beetje van beiden. Maar dat wil niet zeggen dat ik het niet meer zie zitten.

De laatste dagen zijn hier wel wat vreemd geweest, de dag komt ook zo dichtbij. Afscheidsfeestje is geweest voor vrienden en familie. Want ik ga ...