As part of my Benelux road trip I took a short drive from Liège to Maastricht in the Netherlands. That's a pro of traveling in Europe, everything is so close! I'm a fan of the Netherlands anyway. The people are super kind, I love the language and each city has such a relaxing vibe that it even calms me down a bit. I will sure explore this cute country even more in the future. The goal of this road trip was to explore countries I haven't been to before, so this time I just did this short excursions for one day and night and went to the Belgium again afterwards. But it was a bless to be there! I was really lucky with the weather because it started raining after sunset so I was able to get the best out of my day in Maastricht. In the following you'll see my impressions.

Hiking around Fort St. Pieter

At this fort a nice manin an information center handled me a flyer with some trekking routes in thearea around and I decided to go for the nature before heading back to the cityand I got rewarded by nice views.

Fort St. Pieter

View over the city.

ENCI-groeve

These sheeps are held to keep the meadow low as they told me.

The old ANCI-fabriek

Imaging this being your house :)

Never saw so many flies on a cow before :D

Back in the City

Monseigneur Nolenspark

So many turtles where relaxing at this pond.

Pater Vincktoren

Helpoort - Latterly meaning the port to hell

Basiliek van Onze Lieve Vrouwe

Loved the mood in this church!

Stadsdeel Maastricht-Centrum

Art in front of a Restaurant.

Sint-Janskerk on the left and Servatiusbasilika on the right.

Servatiusbasilika from the inside, the main part was closed.

Why doesn't every visitor center look like this? :)

Stokstraat, famous for shopping.

This is what I love the Neatherlands for. I actually just went walking everything though.

Sint Servaasbrug.

Hoge Brug, just for passengers and bycicles.

This is actually the highest mountain in the Neatherlands as I got told =D That’s where I have been hiking earlier.

Bonnefantenmuseum.

My hostel the Stayokay Maastricht with a perfect location.

This sunset was so beautiful!

So practical, why don't we have such things?

Got back to the hostel short before purring rain started.