Showing posts with label Holland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holland. Show all posts

Monday, 1 March 2010

I claim

I claim to be no more than an average man with less than average abilities. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

Sunday, 9 November 2008

caves


Today I went here with some friends.
http://www.maastrichtunderground.nl/index2.html
It's a system of mining caves. It was hard to find. First we didn't know which bus we should have taken, then we missed it. So we arrived late for the tour that we wanted to take. But finally we were able to take part into another tour and the guide was so nice to translate part of the tour from Dutch to English for us!

Incredible what can happen under the surface. Here they used to take stones to build churches. But during the second World War they built inside the system of caves small churches, a baker's, an hospital. This place was supposed to give hospitality to the whole city of Maastricht in case of emergency :)

And then we sat down in a nice coffee bar. I like cappuccino. And with some new friends around you it tastes better. Unfortunately I do not remember the name of the place. But there were partucular toilettes. A toilette for cool men. And one for hot women!