A Book Store in Heaven!

While visiting the beautiful city of Maastricht, Holland, I found the most incredible place in the world! I love love love books and to walk into this particular book store was really amazing. Are you ready for this? A 13th century church was transformed into this modern book store while still maintaining its original characteristics!

To use the space wisely, they decided to make it more than just one floor and so you can shop for your books at eye level with stained glass windows! It was so cool, I felt like a kid in a candy store!

I just thought this was way too cool not to share! Walking around Maastricht, we found so many historical buildings and it was fun trying to figure out where everything was when neither my uncle nor myself spoke Dutch! haha

Another fun fact about Holland, it is nicknamed as the country of bikes because there are thousands of them all over the country! It is a huge means of transportation there and so I thought it would be fun to mention.

It was a really fun day trip and like I said, even though we didn't speak Dutch, we found our way pretty well. I really was in heaven in this transformed church and if you are ever in Holland, you DEFINITELY need to visit it!

Thanks for subscribing to Elephants & Castles but unfortunately friends, on this trip to Europe, I have found many castles but still no elephants... :P What a perfect photo for this blog huh? Just found it on the streets of Holland, no big deal.

Until next time, tot ziens!