Mergelgrotten...

This is the most amazing series of tunnels that started as a sandstone mine hundreds of years ago. 

In the 1940's, when hiding from the bombing, over 50,000 people lived in these cold and totally dark tunnels.

They were there for so long that people created artwork on the walls and even advertising signs for things to buy or do in nearby Maastricht.

It was an amazing experience to walk through the caves..... although my camera and my glasses blurred from the humidity when we walked back out into the rain.

Kasteel Hoensbroek

This beautiful castle, in Limburg, sent shivers down my spine.  Something about it simply gave me a sense of awful things occuring (particularly in the courtyard and the tower).  Still, we came, we played, we put the kids in the stocks and we left.