Took a trip to Maastricht today. It was a fantastic little city so we might go back sometime. We went to the point here Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands meet. The highest point in the Netherlands is also there so of course we had to climb it. It was a whopping 300-some meters above sea level. We also took a tour of Fort St. Petersburg and the north tunnels at Maastricht Underground. It was really really neat. I wish I had taken more pictures there but feel free to Google it, there are quite a few pictures on their website. After that we went to the American Netherlands national cemetery where about 8,000 American soldiers from the world wars are buried. They had a very nice memorial built there as well. I hope we are able to go down there again because there are so many things to do in Maastricht. And everything in Holland is just a little ways away.
This is a map of the whole tunnel system within the Netherlands borders, but this is only one-third of it, the rest continues into Belgium. For some perspective, all we toured was the blue route on the right and it took us over an hour.
In the background is a tower in Belgium.
I've got one foot in Belgium and one in Germany while Antony took the picture from Holland.
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