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On Sunday we left Amsterdam and took a train ride to Maastricht. It is about a 2.5 hour train ride to the South East of Holland. It is in between Belgium and Germany. It is a very nice city and is very slow paced compared to the fast pace of Amsterdam. During the train ride we were in the wrong half of the train and it was splitting so at one stop we had to quickly run to the right part of the train and just made it in time.

With Erin I hand-washed my laundry. The hostel had no laundry and we didn’t see any laundromats nearby. We have walked around town a lot, it has old fortress walls in various places, canals and a river. It is quite neat.

On Monday we did a guided tour of a cave/tunnel near Fort Sint Pietersburg. The guide was very good and nice. It was mostly in Dutch but sometimes in English for us. It was a really neat cave. Basically everywhere the ceiling was above my head. (Not above the heads of all the Dutch) We also did a walk around the area and it is picturesque with rolling hills, little farms, forests and water.

Today we rented bikes and biked out to the Belgian town called Neer Kanne, we decided to bike a bit further and went to Lanaye where we ate at the Le Petit Grande and I had a sandwich that had smoked salmon, smoked shrimp, hard boiled eggs, ham and cheese on it. After finding our way back we went to the museum, Bonnefatenan, it has lots of mostly dutch art in a huge building. It was quite neat and had lots to read in pamphlets. I think they switch up the art fairly regularly there.

We leave for Utrecht tomorrow and will hopefully do a canal cruise in Maastricht before we leave.

On our second last day in Amsterdam we went on an hour long canal cruise that was a good way to see different parts of the city and get a little background on some stuff. There was a recording in Dutch, English and German. In the afternoon we went to the Anne Frank House. It was very well put together and had lots of info and original diary’s but was sad too.

On that Saturday for supper we had dutch pancakes. Which are quite large and thin compared to our pancakes and we chose to have apple and cinnamon on them. Very tasty. I have been having beer with a lot of my meals as it is around the same price as other drinks.