Universiteit Maastricht (UM)

Well, that depends where the people are. In my semester the places were to go out the Highlander (the most, only for drinking), Shamrock (drink and play pool or table football), Meta (disco), The Ala (disco, go only on Fridays) and Backstage (reggae, rock, heavy, etc. look the program)!! Well, the atmosphere in Mastricht is very good, but the place to go are very few. Normally except Meta and Ala (about 05:30-06:30 am) the places close at 3 am in the weekends. Well, in the coffee-shop Heaven you can eat very good. As well there is a Chinese restuarant in the market square whit direction to the bridge, which only cost 6 euros during the working days until 5 pm, and it's a free buffet where you can eat a lot. The Turkish restuarant in front of the town hall in the market, it's also cheap. The rest you will find out it. Enjoy lovely Maastricht!!!

The Main Guest House is ok, there are place to play tennis and basketball, but you have to pay for the raquets and balls, so carry yours. Every working day the cleaning ladies go and they clean the communal kitchens and bathrooms together with the showers, pretty good. By the way, about your lease, you cannot take it off days, for example, if you think to leave in the middle of June, do it until the beginner of June, later you can add days for sure, and it's better than to loose the money, because you pay for sure every day that your lease says.

Well, after all, this was the best, to understand people from all the world and to can explain yourself is amazing. I made my best friends here and in another language from my tongue language, becuase the living together makes you to know some people very well. You don't need the Dutch in Maastricht.

Cheaps ways to travel are: Company to fly: ryanair.com vbird.com corondon.com (from Eindhoven to Istanbul) skyeurope.com by bus: eurolines.com to rent a car is a very cheap way to travel around Netherlands, to go to Paris, etc. For Germany there are a lot of websites where you can share car with people who offer themselves, for example to go to Berlin for 25 euros one way, normally from Aachen always, it's cheaper.

It's better the ABN-Amro bank because of the customer service, they are nicer than in the others. By the way, the shops close at 6 pm from Monday to Friday except on Thursday (9 pm), on Monday open at 1 pm, and on Saturdays close at 5 pm. On Wednesdays and Fridays morning there is a market about food, the only place to find fresh fish that I discovered, etc. Two shops more in direction to the left from the Chiken Kentucky (come se llame) in the Market square there is a Chinese shop and there you can find phone cards to call abroad, inside of Europe it's about 12 euros for 300 minutes.