Travel

Maastricht lesson for the editors

This coming weekend I'm taking the gang for a weekend getaway in the south. For three days we'll enjoy (with a soft G) in a brand new bungalow park in the heart of Maastricht. Not a hotel or B&B, but in one of the villas of the Dormio Resort, with outdoor sauna, jacuzzi, and outdoor kitchen. I doubt we'll even leave the park, but that's beside the point.

According to my niece and nephew, who grew up in the Randstad, they speak a bit weird in the south of the country . Therefore, I think it would be wise to teach the girls a bit of knowledge. Seems better for all parties involved. Ladies, are you reading along?

  1. The best fries you eat at the market straight from your hand with greasy fingers, because the last ones at the bottom of the bag taste the best. You order a fry, yes, not patat. Forbidden. With sauce. Because you won't leave the city without having tasted a bite of soervleis.
  2. When we go grocery shopping on Friday (we'll obviously fire up the barbecue), there will surely be a question if you want a little tuutsje with that. A little bag, that is. A garbage bag is a drekstuut. By the way, Teunsje also has good tuutsjes. But then I’ll come back to point 1.
  3. You eat your pasta with a versjèt and not with a fork.
  4. We have a habit at the editorial office of finding everything VERY nice. But really VERY nice. Hendig sjiek ladies, the weekend will be hendig sjiek.
  5. Sjiek then. Not fancy but just cool. Or one of the nicest spots in the city. Café Sjiek, where you actually get the soervleis from real horse meat.
  6. Where you have to sit still on your butt in Belgium, we just like to have a bunch of nice batse in Maastricht. Or vötsje. Maybe my favorite word.
  7. I doubt it, but if a beer needs to be ordered, just order a pilske. Or a haafum.
  8. Don't walk past the Slevrouwekerk (Our Lady for you) without lighting a candle in the chapel. With a zwegel.
  9. It could very well be that it's a few days colder in the south of the country or that even a flake of sjnie might fall. Bring a thick coat to prevent sjevroaje. Goosebumps, yes.
  10. And if you still don't understand the waiter, use ‘watbleef?’ Short but powerful, you then ask what the person in question means.
  11. DJ Elke, adjust your DJ skills, because next weekend it will be Beppie Kraft coming from the speakers. She is the queen of the south.
  12. And uh, snack team: don't forget the krissiekes. For the road.

If you have any questions, I would like to refer you to mestreechtertaol.nl.