Please help us visit to American Military Cemetery in Margraten
Apr 3rd, 2010, 05:09 PM
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Please help us visit to American Military Cemetery in Margraten
We are Americans that would like to visit the Netherlands American Cemetery near Maastricht in June. We need advice on how to get there, about how long it would take to travel there from Paris, and where to stay in the area. Thank you for any help.
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Stay in Maastricht. Get the Thalys to Brussels than a train to Maastricht from there.
Get the Veolia bus number 50 from Maastricht station to the cemetery. Ask the bus driver to tell you where to get off. It is a few minutes walk from the stop to the cemetery.
Alternatively take a taxi, although that will be a lot more expensive.
If you are planning on staying in the area for a couple of days it may be worth hiring a car, that way you can explore a very different (hilly!) part of the Netherlands.
Get the Veolia bus number 50 from Maastricht station to the cemetery. Ask the bus driver to tell you where to get off. It is a few minutes walk from the stop to the cemetery.
Alternatively take a taxi, although that will be a lot more expensive.
If you are planning on staying in the area for a couple of days it may be worth hiring a car, that way you can explore a very different (hilly!) part of the Netherlands.
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We stayed in the nearby tiny village of Epen, only a few miles from the cemetery. The place was a restored manor house. We had our own apartment. Owners spoke excellent English. Quarters were spotless. While there, we also drove the short distance east to Aachen, Germany. Visited Charlemagne's church, walked all over central part of the city. South from Aachen you enter the Hurtgen Forest area.
Maastricht, too, is great fun to visit and has a large pedestrian zone. The cemetery is only a couple minutes east of Maastricht on the south side of the road leading toward Aachen. Very helpful people there if you are looking for a particular grave.
Otherwise, you can look up the grave site on your computer, using the American Battle Monuments Commission web site. We visited several cemeteries.
I suspect the closest one to Margraten is the larger one at Henri Chapelle, just over the border into Belgium. Margraten is the only American military cemetery in the Netherlands.
Maastricht, too, is great fun to visit and has a large pedestrian zone. The cemetery is only a couple minutes east of Maastricht on the south side of the road leading toward Aachen. Very helpful people there if you are looking for a particular grave.
Otherwise, you can look up the grave site on your computer, using the American Battle Monuments Commission web site. We visited several cemeteries.
I suspect the closest one to Margraten is the larger one at Henri Chapelle, just over the border into Belgium. Margraten is the only American military cemetery in the Netherlands.
