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| With Bee in front of the train station |
Today we ducked over in to Maastricht. It was an extremely short train ride, around 30 minutes, and was extremely cheap. The return trip was €5,60! We didn't really plan our trip out very well though... We caught the 7:22 am train and thus got there around 8:00 am. Unfortunately for us, almost all the stores were closed! At least we got to see the city in a quiet and peaceful state; by the time noon rolled around the streets were packed. Our group of six met up with a bunch of the other Erasmus students. Thankfully they had stopped by the information center and gotten a map of places they wanted to see. For the rest of the afternoon we did a self guided walking tour of the city and called it a day early. With trains running almost every hour, we caught the 5:09 pm train home.
It was short but sweet. There isn't a ton to do in Maastricht and visually it is extremely similar to the places I've been in Belgium, however, it is extremely cool to say I've been to the Netherlands.
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| My travel team: Bee, Kiki, Chelsa, Vick, & K Sweet |
A very interesting point. There were signs posted around the city announcing the changing of their marijuana laws. Starting on October 1 they will only sell pot to residents of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. It will henceforth be illegal to sell pot to someone from any other country. Some of the students I was with said they'd heard the Netherlands were trying to improve their tourism reputation away from the pot and prostitute image. I wonder how it will effect their local business and national tourism. It was really strange to walk around and see the pot cafes and all the drug paraphernalia stores just out in the open.
Anyways, pictures:
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Love you all!
Jacqueline
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