Maastrict, Netherlands

This is a small town where 13th century town walls and just a stones throw from modern glass and brick constructions. A few bridges, some great, some whack, integrate the town over the river that flows down from Rotterdam. It is probably most famous for the 1992 Maastrict treaty was signed which was instrumental to the little construction known as the European Union. But I didn’t know about all that when I got here. Hey, I just drink here.

My host in Maastrict was a tall female Dutch medical student. So. Perhaps unsurprisingly I spent the couple of days dining, drinking and dancing with tall female Dutch medical students. Yes, I know. It is hard being me.

This is a university town and there are plenty of schools here, enough that one could call it a college town. Summer has cafes and bars open in plazas, but winter is bar hopping and ending up in clubs that are enjoyable only after the prerequisite amount of inebriation. But one cannot be drunk enough to something to cause the cell phones to blow up Saturday afternoon with gossip. It is after all a very fine balance.

I had a couple of Dutch meals, drank Dutch beer and even rode a Dutch bike with a Dutch girl on the rear luggage rack. It was a good experience and if I only had working knowledge of the Dutch language and was born in the Netherlands, I’d be a total Dutchman. Instead, I’ll just settle for being a drunk brown man.