It's been quite a while, Harriet missed every one! How's everyone doing? Harriet is having a great time in Maastricht!
Our Princesses need to update more! Harriet feels a bit disappointed when she visits PF and no new updates.... ;A;

Anyways, Harriet's received her new camera. It's has a super wide angle lens and it even has an electronic thing that tells you if you are holding the camera straight. Doubles as a spirit level. Awesome! ^-^v Now Harriet no longer has excuse not to update or at least she can pic spam. Yeah! BABY~~

It's exam week for everyone, but not for Harriet this time. Harriet only need to write a paper, so today Harriet took her bike out to print her report (Harriet spent 3 euros on colour printing her 11 page report @_@ Harriet shouldn't be so OCD *repeat 200 times*) and made a detour to the coolest places in Maastricht. That is the only one place Harriet knew about before arriving in Maastricht.

Harrriet is kidding about going every Sunday. No offense either. It's just two of Harriet's favourite kind of places combined in one. Ironically enough, Harriet love going to book stores but no longer read books and visits churches but is not affiliated to the religion in anyway. Perhaps it's the calming atmosphere both of them have. Good reason to put them together, probably.
Well actually, Harriet read about a bookstore/library inside a church in some design journal a few years ago. Harriet stepped in the place feeling like it's a dream come true but don't quite remember what it is. This bookstore is designed by Merkx + Girod and they won an award for it, que design journal.

Anyways it's just all sorts of awesome.
None of these metal structures touches the original church structures. Double-P! Preservation and practicality.

Stairway to heaven. Now in Chrome.
You can actually still see bits of frescoes on the ceiling.

So close you can touch the arches.
Btw, as much as Harriet likes visiting churches and cathedrals, Harriet never climb the towers because she is deathly afraid of heights =3=;

View from the top

This is the image that snapped I've seen this place before and the feeling of Deja-Vu subsides. It's the cross shaped table. There are magazines running inside the cross. Harriet thinks the chandelier and table is a nice reinterpretation of the religious/historic features.

(Harriet likes it so much she goes there every Sunday! ;D 6 more fotoes under the cut)

That's all until next time!
More travelling, castles, world heritage and art nouveau biennale~ ❤