Maastricht with Jean

For my birthday weekend, on the last weekend of April, I decided to go visit Jean in Maastricht, Holland.

I woke up early and got a train to Bristol, where I then took a short plane ride over to Amsterdam, then took the train to the central station.He picked me up in Amsterdam and we had a great time just exploring and seeing everything. Such a different world!!

Then we took a 2 hour train ride back to his house. He has to go everywhere by bus, since his house is kind of away from the city. We got to his house and I met his roommates, then we had dinner and went out to the center of town for drinks.

The next day Jean had to work all day, so his roommate Benjamin took me into town and showed me Maastricht. What impressed me the most was all the different cultures and languages everywhere. You couldn't walk around without hearing a medley of French, German, Dutch, Italian, English, Russian, etc.
We met up with one of his friends in the afternoon and had a drink while we waited for Jean to get off of work. That night, Jean had some of his friends over from work for a poker night.

The next day, my birthday, We went into Maastricht again and had a delicious lunch outside. That town is always packed with people! It's like they don't ever eat at home...

Then I said goodbye to Jean and started on a long day of travelling back to Bath.

When I got home that night, my roommates were waiting for me with birthday cake!