Sittard and Maastricht

So, I am settling into the city nicely and looking quite intently for an apartment of my own. This weekend however I took the liberty of a little time off to take a day trip with friends.



First we went to a town about 2 hours south by train called Sittard to see “some surfer dude’s art.” Well that turned out to be a bit more interesting than it initially sounded. We saw the Thomas Campbell exhibit at the Museum Het Domein in a charming little town with medieval churches. In stark contrast though, Thomas Campbell's work was inspired by skateboarding culture in the late 80s and 90s. As his art the show title Sing Ding aling suggests, Campbell's art is about, among other things, defying logic and generating a sense of hip frivolity.




Then, quite randomly we decided to take the train a few more stops further to Maastricht which is in the southeastern part of the Netherlands that borders Belgium and Germany. Maastricht is most recently famous worldwide for the Maastricht treaty signed there in 1992 which led to the creation of the Euro. It’s a beautiful city home to gorgeous architecture and a great art and music scene. We arrived just in time to watch the sun sent over the Meuse river and have dinner before taking the last train back to Amsterdam. Stay tuned for a future entry on Maastricht . . . we all loved it and promised to return.