Now about Maastricht (sometime beginning of May)
0 Comments Published by Svetlana Zhukova on Monday, June 12, 2006 at 11:30 PM.
We (me and Masha) spent one of Sundays in Maastricht, visiting a friend of our friend who studies there.
The city is almost the last one to the south of The Netherlands, and even the landscape changes when you get there by train - noticeably more hills, and the horizon is not as flat, but normal to an eye, as we are used to it at home.
Maastricht sits on the river Maas, and they say, had to be separated between Belgium and The Netherlands accordingly, but that has never happened, and the city got its space as a whole.
Nice, quiet, it's the place where one of EU agreements (if I remember correctly, about euro) was signed.
Nice river
Small parks
Beautiful small streets, full of sunny cafes
(I've realized that cafe's culture, when people can just go out in the evening and sit and enjoy evening in a street cafe, so this culture is one of things that fascinates me in Europe)
Square with of course a piece of the "Dutch art" (a concept, introduced to me at the first day in the country) - something that looks interest, ugly or strange, and rarely in its place. I think it brings more life to the order of small towns :)
And so, that was Maastricht!
The Netherlands' discovery - to be continued...
The city is almost the last one to the south of The Netherlands, and even the landscape changes when you get there by train - noticeably more hills, and the horizon is not as flat, but normal to an eye, as we are used to it at home.
Maastricht sits on the river Maas, and they say, had to be separated between Belgium and The Netherlands accordingly, but that has never happened, and the city got its space as a whole.
Nice, quiet, it's the place where one of EU agreements (if I remember correctly, about euro) was signed.
Nice river
Small parks
Beautiful small streets, full of sunny cafes
(I've realized that cafe's culture, when people can just go out in the evening and sit and enjoy evening in a street cafe, so this culture is one of things that fascinates me in Europe)
Square with of course a piece of the "Dutch art" (a concept, introduced to me at the first day in the country) - something that looks interest, ugly or strange, and rarely in its place. I think it brings more life to the order of small towns :)
And so, that was Maastricht!
The Netherlands' discovery - to be continued...
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