Last Tuesday I visited the Centre Ceramique to view and review the ‘De Dorst van Maastricht’ (Thirst of Maastricht) exhibition currently available for your viewing pleasure. You can read my review at Maastricht Region, but the short answer is if you’re in Maastricht swing on by. Its free and you’ll probably learn something. [...]

This weekend Dan & I trekked North to take in our first Dutch comics convention at the Breda Stripbeurs (in Breda of course). Taking place on March 6th and 7th, this convention was a good, medium-sized introduction to Dutch conventions and the European comic scene.
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Breda Stripbeurs struck me as a medium-size convention, with a gym-turned-convention [...]

I’ve had the pleasure over the last several weeks to email with Melissa, a American woman preparing to move to Maastricht with her Limburg-native husband, Ben and son. This week Ben wrote an article for Crossroads entitled “A Homecoming: Back to South Limburg“. Their story is an interesting one and I encourage everyone to go [...]

Type of Place: Take-away Restaurant
Location: Koningin Emma Plein 11; 6214 AB Maastricht
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Located on the Koningin Emma Plein roundabout in the shadow of the St. Lambert church is one of my favorite take-away restaurants in Maastricht. Thai Take-Away is a unpretenious take-away restaurant with a few eat-in seats and a prominent counter. The open kitchen [...]

The final day of Carnival featured a handful of activities. Namely a concert, a children’s costume contest, and the closing ceremony. We decide that we just had to attend the closing ceremony (we were erroneously told that they burned ‘t Mooswief at the end of each Carnival and weren’t going to miss that) at midnight. [...]