After a take-it-easy family day, my niece Cathy, her son Marius and I went to a very special carnival in the south of the Netherlands, Maastricht carnaval. Being protestant, carnival is totally unkown everywhere in NL, but Limburg which is close to Aachen and not too far from Cologne, and having been catholic, kept the tradition of carnival. Well, a very dutch way of celebrating, nice, but somehow quieter than we're used to in Düsseldorf.We had fun though, Frank from Hospitality Club had done some great job on organizing a meeting, and I met Maikel, Jeldridge and Randy again. And lots of other members, of course.
Maastricht is a great little town, the oldest in the Netherlands, from roman times, and well worth a visit. Even more so on carnival, when on saturday the prince is given the keys of the town outside the town gates and drives to the townhall accompanied by hundreds of musicians and followers in disguise, and fun starts to last until ash wednesday. Everybody and everything is wearing his colours: red, yellow and green. To enjoy best, people go to the vrijthof, the churchyard (!), join them for great carnaval here!
Still, since we three from Düssedorf were all rather tired, we left after five hours, and arrived back home in time to do some window cleaning (Cathy) and watch Berlinale (me).
Tomorrow it's carnival in the streets of Düssedorf old town again. Helau! :)
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