Maastricht, Netherlands!

We are in Limburg province in the very southern part of Netherlands; the countryside is gorgeous, very hilly with trees, farmland and tiny beautiful villages. We were burned out by those Belgian drivers! on the drive here from Ieper, hahahahaha, this is for Rit and Kamiel, two super awesome Belgians we met at the B&B were we stayed near Ieper, we had dinner together and are going to visit them at their place on our way to Brussels in a few days.

Anyway, we didn’t feel like driving into a city yesterday so we hiked around the countryside near Epen where we are staying. The B&B there is quite incredible and we had the best breakfast in Europe there this morning. There are not that many English speaking visitors in this area so the waitress had to translate the menu for dinner last night, we thought we were getting duck but it may have been goose, not sure, but it was really good.

Right now we are in Maastricht, a very nice city and are on a self-guided walking tour but we didn’t get very far and are in a wonderful building called the Centre Ceramique which houses the library, we are here for free wireless internet. You pay for everything else including restroom facilities in stores and you have to pay for all of the maps you want to have at tourist centres. There is a café in the library, you can eat and drink at the tables, and there was a short concert with a jazz singer and another woman on the sax.

Maastricht is an old fort city so we are supposed to walk around and see old roman fortifications and whatnot, if we ever get out of the library.