Jamie and James at the Netherlands Cemetary
We visited Valkenburg, NL. This is an unusual town. It has a long history from 900AD with a very nice castle and ruins. The altstadt (old town) is rather unusual in that 90% of the buildings are RESTURANTS. I've never seen so many resturants and you know us and resturants!! There must have been 50 resturants in a space of about 100 yards!! We ate some good chow - mussels, pork satay with peanut sauce and some good beer!!! As Ahyoung would say - AHSAAA!!
To end our trip, we stopped in Aachen, Germany - the city of Charlemagne - Emperor of Germany in the 700s. We visited the church he built in the shape of an octagon. REALLY pretty. The adjacent treasury houses some of the many treasures of Charlemagne, Charles IV and other religious relics. Really interesting
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/germany/aachen-cathedral.htm
Monday, January 12, 2009
Valkenburg and Aachen
10-11 Jan - After Jamie's swim meet, we spent the rest of the weekend diong some quick touring around the Southern Region of The Netherlands called South Limburg. We visited the Netherlands American Cemetary where many US Soldiers are buried - most of the 8300 buried here are those that died in Operation Market Garden. It is a very pretty cemetary with all the snow. http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries/cemeteries/ne.php
Jamie and James at the Netherlands Cemetary
We visited Valkenburg, NL. This is an unusual town. It has a long history from 900AD with a very nice castle and ruins. The altstadt (old town) is rather unusual in that 90% of the buildings are RESTURANTS. I've never seen so many resturants and you know us and resturants!! There must have been 50 resturants in a space of about 100 yards!! We ate some good chow - mussels, pork satay with peanut sauce and some good beer!!! As Ahyoung would say - AHSAAA!!
To end our trip, we stopped in Aachen, Germany - the city of Charlemagne - Emperor of Germany in the 700s. We visited the church he built in the shape of an octagon. REALLY pretty. The adjacent treasury houses some of the many treasures of Charlemagne, Charles IV and other religious relics. Really interesting
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/germany/aachen-cathedral.htm
Jamie and James at the Netherlands Cemetary
We visited Valkenburg, NL. This is an unusual town. It has a long history from 900AD with a very nice castle and ruins. The altstadt (old town) is rather unusual in that 90% of the buildings are RESTURANTS. I've never seen so many resturants and you know us and resturants!! There must have been 50 resturants in a space of about 100 yards!! We ate some good chow - mussels, pork satay with peanut sauce and some good beer!!! As Ahyoung would say - AHSAAA!!
To end our trip, we stopped in Aachen, Germany - the city of Charlemagne - Emperor of Germany in the 700s. We visited the church he built in the shape of an octagon. REALLY pretty. The adjacent treasury houses some of the many treasures of Charlemagne, Charles IV and other religious relics. Really interesting
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/germany/aachen-cathedral.htm
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