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| Page Views: 1,257 Last Visit to Amsterdam: April, 2001 | Queensday +++ A Dutch Celebration 2001 by sabsi - last update: Sep 16, 2002 |
Queensday is celebrated in the Netherlands on 30 April every year. As the birthday of queen Beatrix is in winter the Dutch people still celebrate the birthday of the former queen.
On this day everyone is allowed to sell whatever he wants on the streets of Amsterdam, so the city is turned into a giant flea market. Some people cook nice things, sell drinks, sell whatever they found in their flats, some sing or play an instrument - whatever!
Everyone's dresses in orange of course - their national colour. I have never seen as much orange on one day in my entire life!!! Most of the people wear crowns as well!!! People who have boats or rent boats cruise around the canals with loud music and a lot of drinks. It's fun only to watch them! I wouldn't mind being invited to a party on a boat some day....
Well.. have a look at some of my pics...
Enjoy!
Sabsi |
|  | Everyone is dressed in orange - even the dogs |
Lucky who has a boat! | | |
| | Would you name your boat Titanic? |
You can even find selfmade boats!! | | |
| | And it's interesting to watch them crash :) |
..which causes boat jams of course ;-) | | |
| I can't believe Colm did this! |
| | And for NLG5 you can throw 3 eggs at people!!! |
Luckily Colm can't really throw :) | | |
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TheTravelSlut Mon Jul 23, 2007 14:40 UTC
Thanks for the tips and photos and I will be able to use the info next week on my trip. Ann, The Travel Slut | RhineRoll Thu Apr 7, 2005 15:41 UTC
Great tips and, as usual, great pics, especially the intro one :-) | pieter_jan_v Fri Oct 22, 2004 18:21 UTC
Sabine, GREAT bicycle bell Intro picture! PJ | bugulma Thu Sep 30, 2004 15:01 UTC
I've been only in Schiphol during 1 hour :-)) I was rushing too because I thought the airport is not big and spent time in shops/restaurant but suddenly I realized I might lost my plane. Fortunately my plane was delayed a bit cause of weather :-) |
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