2/6 - Maastricht city

To know Maastricht you can check wikipedia but if I could resume in some words:

- Old city => I mean paved street, traditionnal architecture, it looks like a nice small village which became a city with a lot of students.

- Bike => Like in all Netherlands you MUST have a bike... and a lock... cannabis is not the most lucrative way to make money in this country..  bikes are number 1 ;) (and I'm sorry for some people but I'll not speak a lot about drugs, because I don't smoke, and if you are not smoker too, don't worry there are a lot of people who don't smoke).

- Student / School / Travel => It's not about Maastricht but yes it's an important part, you can do a mix of these three words. Students (and new friends) for sure, School and Travel will depend of your courses, generally exchange students, here, have a lot of works... but don't worry you will always find some times to do parties and travels ;)

I hope that will be enough to make you want to come here. :)

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To speak about this map, point by point: (scroll down to see the map)

Residences: You have Three choices it will be around 300-500€

1 => Teikyo Europe (here you have to say "The Guesthouse"), it's an old hospital (not so old, you can still find some doctors and special departments in the building) which was reassigned for students. It's really clean and secure, close to the school and center. => I will do an article about it

2=> Avant Garde Residence, cheaper and not so clean and spacious (compared to Teikyo), this year there are a lot of french so there are automatically a good ambiance ;) I'm joking there are good ambiance everywhere :)
3 => Search for an apartment in collocation, with some others students or in a Dutch family, you have to search by yourself... an advice: you can use Facebook, write "Maastricht" with some keywords in the search bar and you will have a lot of pages and groups.

If you really need some cheap appartment you can maybe search in Belgium, it's quite close, I don't really know.

Schools

I don't have a lot of things to say actually about schools, mine is "ABKMaastricht", you could find all department of art in this building (design/ interior architecture/ textile/ Scenography/ ...) It's a really good place, an article will arrive also.

Main Square

You have two places: => Market Place (under the A), it's the biggest one, you could find a Burger King (I know french want to know this detail ;) ) and some others restaurant, actually I don't go a lot to this place so you can understand that the next one is better :)

                                   => Vrijthof [vraïtof], you could find two streets, one with the stores and one with the bars... You will know this street.

Supermarcket

You have three famous supermarckets in this country: C1000 (Cthousand),  Albert Heijn and Aldi. Next to Teikyo you have the choice with these three supermarckets but you can find some others in the city of course.

I think it's enough, I will add some details if it's necessary but you can understand that the city is most on the left side of the river (actually I go on right side only to go to the train station, sometimes to go to Avant Garde or to go to some bars (only 3 times)... you can also find a cinema next to the "Y" bridge, all movies and series are in english subtitled in dutch.. this is why, I think, many Dutch speak English very well, even if they claim the opposite. ;)