As my previous posting outlined, we spent last weekend in Maastricht. In a lucky turn of events, all the hotels in town were fully booked. That led Christine to look further afield and to discover a great little B&B in the countryside just outside the city. Greenwoods is run by Ruth and Eddy Archer. She is Dutch and he is British. They have a horse, some cats, and a bunch of chickens that we got to feed.
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| Late day sun, June 24 |
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| Christine and Eddy in the garden. Note the cat in the background. |
It's a rambling country house with lots of books and magazines piled high on every surface, which was convenient when sitting by the fireplace after a drizzly day walking around the city.
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| Here is Christine feeding the chickens. The rooster is named "Blackjack". |
Holland is always neat. Although it is only a hundred kilometers from here, it feels a bit different. The Dutch are all multi-lingual and almost everyone speaks English. The Dutch language also seems to be a bit less complicated than German, although you can see that many words are the same. In addition, it is easy to find wierd, sweet Belgian beers there too. We are planning to vacation in Holland for the first week of August, so I will report more on the cute wierdness of the Netherlands later.
Here is a photo of a rolling party in Maastricht. It would seem to be a sort of stag-party or office team-building excercise. A company rents out a couple dozen Vespas and everyone scoots around. We later saw a similar number of women on electric mopeds. Apparently helmets are not necessary, and presumably neither is a licence. Does one even have to be sober? Holland is definitely more relaxed.
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| With an Amstel beer |
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