Tag: historic maastricht
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The Empty Bear Pit.
We were taking a walk through the Aldenhofpark in Maastricht trying to hunt down the statue of D’Artagnan we had read about online when we noticed a large, circular fence. As we got nearer we could see the strange sight of a black haired lady in a Red dress comforting a dying Giraffe. I’ll add…
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Gabel Stones of Maastricht
We were due to visit Rotterdam on the Eurostar last weekend. Unfortunately, due to rail strikes in Holland the Eurostar was cancelled some 12 hours before we were due to embark. Obviously we tried to book onto another train but they filled up within minutes so it did look like we weren’t going anywhere. Luckily…