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A Christmas Carol in the Velvet Cave

Tweet23-11-2009 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

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Leslie Sherriff lives with her family (husband, Andrew and son Ian) in Maastricht since September 2008. Prior to arriving in Maastricht, Leslie worked as a senior manager for US-based relief and development agency, Catholic Relief Services, primarily in the former Yugoslavia. Currently, she works at home raising Ian, learning Dutch, and completing the occasional consulting contract for relief and development agencies. Leslie is a US citizen married to a Scotsman living in the Netherlands -- a "third-culture family" greatly enjoying life in the Maastricht Region.

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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