Blogs from Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands, Europe - page 8

We're still here in Holland at the same camp site. Its getting hotter by the day but we've heard there might be a thunder storm tonight.............believe it or not we'd like one!!!! There were more crazy people in Holland the other day doing a 70km walk, it marks the day the village was founded..........then they get drunk!! Robbo, seen a bit of the footie and how dare you think Fred might not make it. We haven't had many hills so far though. We got the messages from A Jen & Ragz mum and dad just in case you were wondering. Provided we can pack away after / during a thunder storm we'll be leaving here tomorrow heading for Luxemburg, still undecided which part but its so small I'm sure we'll find somewhere. Lush Guys, hope the ... read more

We left Amsterdam on the train as we had been warned about the diffeculty of hitchiking in the Netherlands and arrived in Maastricht at 2pm. After a lot of searching we managed to find a relatively cheap hostel on a boat called - the Botelboot. The cheapest accomodation in Maastricht (still not that cheap) it serves as a place of residence for waifes and strays. We got talking to one who then followed us on our walk around the town which is very pretty and quite similar to Durham. He came up with some mad stories about how one of his friends had two backpackers staying with him and they turned out to be KGB agents who killed his friends with his own TV and vaccum cleaner. Also how Holland didn't exist and how he had ... read more

Hey everyone, Things are going well, with the house and with me. My bruises are starting to go away, I'm not super-tired anymore, and I'm having a good time at the house. Pretty quiet around here actually, nothing too wild and crazy going on. Still enjoying wandering around town, still enjoying everyones company at the house. Things are a little hectic, there's another person in the house right now. Jaakko was on an exchange to the states and came back while I was in the UK. Jesse and him technically occupy the same room, just switch back and forth while the other is away. So Jesse's in his room still, Jaakko's in Joel's room where I was before, Joel's kipping with Alice and I'm on the big futon in the living room. It's no problem for ... read more

*Written January 16th, I had trouble getting on to the site to finish and publish the blog, so here it is, better late than never* Hey all, I can't say I'm having a peachy-keen time here... I'm still sick, getting a bit of a cough and it's hard to muster up the energy to galavant around town. So the last few days have been quiet. I've been spending time in the house, watching movies, chatting with people. There's always someone around at any given time, and theres always something to do. I went to town a couple times, took a lot of pictures, went for some walks with Joel and Alice and whoever is around. I bought some boots! They're green!! I'm pretty excited about them. Mostly I've been struggling to go to bed at a ... read more

Well this may be silly but we went to an African Museum today. While in Europe, why not learn about another continent?? Another house member appeared last night, Chris from Germany, and while talking about what I wanted to do while in Maastricht and the museums I wanted to visit in other cities he mentioned how there was an African museum in town. There used to be a church in Maastricht that sent a lot of missionaries to Africa, and when they came home they'd bring an item or two. Over the years there became quite a collection of items, either as gifts or swiped we're not sure. It's quite a nice little exhibit, I enjoyed it although all the descriptions were in Dutch, but Chris and Marit helped translate for me. They also had ... read more