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Posts related to tag 'Christmas':

Its Beginning to Look Like Sinterklaas...

27-11-2009 om 12:00 by Amanda Potter

As soon as the weather gets cool here in Maastricht, the holiday garlands, lights, and candy comes out for the winter holidays.  It may seem early if you are not from the Netherlands, but everyone is really just getting ready for Sinterklaas on December 5th.

About the Holiday

Sinterklaas is traditionally the celebration of St. Nicholas’ birthday. In the tradition of Dutch birthdays where the celebrant provides the cake to share with his or her colleagues, St. Nicholas (Sint Nicolaas in Dutch) gives gifts to children who have been good for the whole year. Starting on November 14th, he travels around the Netherlands with his entourage of helpers, Zwarte Piet (Black Peters), to make sure the kids have been good before delivering a bag of gifts on December 5th. On December 6th he heads... read more

A Christmas Carol in the Velvet Cave

23-11-2009 om 15:57 by Amanda Potter

The holiday season is picking up here in the Maastricht Region, even if we haven’t had a single flake of snow. So to get into the spirit ourselves, Dan & I hopped on the train to Valkenburg and followed the Kerstmarkt signs to the Fluweelengrot (Velvet Cave) for their annual underground Christmas market.

The Velvet Cave is one of two marl caverns in Valkenburg dug in the early 11th century to provide stone for the Valkenburg Castle which now stands in ruins above the modern town. The network of tunnels were used over the centuries as secret passageways, a hiding place during multiple wars, and a platform for fantastic murals and sculptures carved into the soft stone. Today the cave can be visited on tour (Dutch with an English pamphlet), but once a year this hidden place is transformed... read more

 
 
Amanda Potter moved to Maastricht from Boston, Massachusetts in April, 2009 with her husband Dan for his research position at the University of Maastricht. Between exploring their adopted country and learning about a new culture, Amanda blogs about her experience and the city at www.MaastrichtMinutiae.com. Amanda works as a freelance writer and web designer at www.FallenKitten.com and webmaster for the comic www.WalkingtheLethe.com. She has two globetrotting cats that keep her company in their second floor Maastricht flat.
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