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Travel II: Maastricht and Amsterdam

This time for work, in October we went to a conference in Maastricht and taking advantage of the visit, we went to Amsterdam to spend the weekend. In Maastricht we were in a hotel which looked very carefully 's Bergere, with a peculiar style, as you can see here picture of my room

Maastricht is a small town, clean and quiet. We could not see much, to attend the conference. Amsterdam, quite the opposite: large, noisy and crowded. It is very easy to get confused and end up walking down the bike path. And in Amsterdam bicycles are used extensively, in fact I saw almost no cars, everyone was going by bicycle or tram.

The houses in Amsterdam are narrow and ridged at the top with rings to climb the furniture. Many houses are crooked, I guess because the moisture is eating the foundation, but do not know.

Of Amsterdam have to see the museum area (we could not see), including the Van Gogh Museum, Dam area, with the royal palace and flower market , which does not sell flowers, but bulb (is it by the time of year?). Although it is best to simply take a walk downtown and wander through the canals of this bustling city, where you find sites with unique charm and people behind every corner. You can also rent bikes at a great price and emulate the citizens of Amsterdam, as though it may seem small, in fact, the center includes a fairly large.

Then there is the obligatory ride on the canals, which gave me the feeling of pacing the film Amsterdamned and a look at the coffee shops, and visit night at the red light district (red light district I do not know how to say in Dutch). there I could see things you would not believe , as a foreigner completely drunk on the floor on all fours with his pants down, quite drunk
another foreigner on him doing the cowboy , the two teetering dangerously on the brink of channel and all this in front of a window from which an attractive young female underwear inviting them to come inside.

A very interesting journey, in short, let me see the contrast between these two cities in the Netherlands.

As usual, these and other photos can be found in my little corner on flickr .

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So I am yesterday. To paraphrase Conan (freely interpreted):

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I: Black Forest, Cologne and Aachen

Taking advantage of a small hole in the final stages of development of the research project, I write this post (very late) on my vacation in August. My wife and I decided to take a walk through the Black Forest Area, using the occasion to make a visit to a couple of German friends. The entire trip included a circuit through the Black Forest, from northeast to southwest (starting and ending in Freiburg Stuttgart), and a trip express to Cologne and Aachen (Aachen).

The route through the Black Forest (Schwarzwald die in German) was a Fly & Drive, where shopping all pack, which includes air travel, stays in hotels and a rental car. Have a sheet with the hotel management where you have to sleep that day, and you managed to get in the car. This way you have total freedom to move wherever you want. Whenever you arrive at the hotel before nine o'clock at night, of course, because if you arrive late and do not give you dinner anywhere. In cities, more or less you can have lunch or dinner when you want, but in rural Germany, if not walk in the door of the premises at 20:50, or you get some snacks, or you get to go to dinner beer pub (which is not such a bad option, either: D). For beer, in addition, each town or village has its own, some made there, some more good of the region in general, and all excellent and in generous quantities.

One thing that struck us is that very few tourists. In fact, I think almost all the tourists who are Hispanic or English, and German retirees. Talking about this with a native, told us that the German youth is not a lot of tourism within their country, but to go all out.

The trip was very good, on two fronts: the rural (villages of the Black Forest, as Sasbachwalden, Oberwolfach, Gernsbach, lakes and the Titisee, the Mummelsee and Schluchsee) , and the cosmopolitan, especially Fribourg (Freiburg), with its pedestrian area and its impressive gothic cathedral, and Aachen (Aachen), the residence of the Emperor Charlemagne with his octagonal cathedral with Byzantine mosaics, and its unique treasure that includes, among other pieces, the cross of Lothair, covered in gold and silver with precious stones.

If you want to see more photos from Germany and the Black Forest, in my Flickr page is a selection of photos from this trip.

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