Yes­ter­day was an ex­cel­lent day to stay in the train a bit longer and end up in Weert (18:06 Am­s­tel - 19:46 Weert). While the north of the Nether­lands was cov­ered by clouds and lacked sun, south of the big rivers the sun was shin­ing. I wasn't go­ing to 's Her­to­gen­bosch this time, but was cu­ri­ous about 2 stops fur­ther south: Weert, af­ter Eind­hoven. I al­ways had the im­pres­sion that it was some dull vil­lage in the mid­dle of nowhere (like worse than Eind­hoven ;-), but the In­ter­ci­ty train stops at Weert sta­tion so there should be some city cen­tre with a MacDon­alds and stuff. And there was to my sur­prise! They were fix­ing the church a bit so that made it a bit less idyl­lic, but it starts of with a very nice au­then­tic sta­tion - like­ly from the same time as Haar­lem sta­tion, when there was still a rea­son to have trains stop in places like Weert and Haar­lem - and in 10 min­utes you walk via a invit­ing straight line to the cen­tre of Weert, with plen­ty of places to eat and drink. On mon­day the sushibar was closed, but there is one. The best part of Weert is that there is an old-style cosy square next to the church, and for mod­ern day shop­ping they have a more mod­ern square a few streets away. So Weert isn't bad at all. Just the name is not as invit­ing as Stram­proy, Maa­seik, Maarheeze and Someren of all places.