Your Best Shot: Celebrating Queen’s Day
2009/FAMILY PHOTO
“When planning for our spring trip to Europe, I decided that a visit to Holland to see the tulips in bloom definitely had to be included in our itinerary,“ said Karen Raab of Henrico County. “My husband and daughter were thrilled to hear that the annual Queen’s Day festival would coincide with our trip dates and insisted that we make time to attend the event.“
Published: November 1, 2009
"When planning for our spring trip to Europe, I decided that a visit to Holland to see the tulips in bloom definitely had to be included in our itinerary," said Karen Raab of Henrico County. "My husband and daughter were thrilled to hear that the annual Queen's Day festival would coincide with our trip dates and insisted that we make time to attend the event. Queen's Day (in Dutch: Koninginnedag) in Amsterdam is a unique night and day carnival-like event on April 30 each year. Celebrating Queen's Day means dressing in orange clothes (as the reigning dynasty is House of Orange and this is their color), painting faces and hair orange, drinking orange drinks, wearing mock orange crowns, and watching the parade of boats filled to the brim with partiers."
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