Queensday Holland

[DBozMen]

Hey guys,

I was wondering how many people actually know of this festifal outside the netherlands. I was talking to DSL about it last night

For the newbies a small introduction (from wikipedia):

Koninginnedag or Queen's Day is a national holiday in the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, and Aruba on 30 April.

Queen's Day is known for its "freemarket" (Dutch: vrijmarkt) all over the country, where everybody is allowed to sell things in the streets. Other activities during Queen's Day are children's games, individual musical performances, and music concerts. The night before Queen's Day is celebrated too in some cities, and this is called Queen's Night (Dutch: Koninginnenacht)


Anyway, the biggest party is in Amsterdam. Arround 600k-800k people are planning to go there and have a blast

Amsterdam is known for it's canals, well on queensday every canal looks like this:



Meanwhile every square is filled with people, lots of people (100k people here):




Or the road from centralstation to deep in the city:




some movies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nME7u8yiKsY (the guy that is presenting this is at the end pretty wasted )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryuYN5yCukU boats, boats and more boats http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrqxBMlVLD8

This is where i'll be again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf0oeWjDx6w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2JWuRrG17I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQXuN0ebqrc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScMO72aaR0k

[DBozMen]

I forgot to mention Queensnight, that would be the party before queensday . So basically i'll be drunk for at least 24 hours

[Achilles]

Ive been there in Amsterdam with queensday, it was fun
This year i might just go to Groningen, where i study as well.
That's also said to be fun

[nosejam]

So one day of the year the country turns into Dehli?

Hmm I have work due in on friday . Sure I could've found ppl willing to go .

[Mr President]

Sounds like a lot of fun... Enjoy yourself

[Eroberer]

Now this is just f***ed up:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...tch-queen.html

Hope the bastard gets everything he deserves...

[DBozMen]

Now this is just f***ed up:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...tch-queen.html

Hope the bastard gets everything he deserves...

that ****ing ******* destroyed the complete day.

The news is saying that he might have died, but this sick bastard doesn't deserve an end like this.


The thing is that there is no way to prepare for a maniac like this. This guy had no record, no ties to terorrists... completly nothing and still the ****er killed 4 people.

I just saw the speach that our queen gave and I was really touched by the emotion that was shown and the word that were used. Normally they show sympathy with the injured and victimes so that can have some distance. But now you really saw how shocked she was.

Now i just hope, that next year we'll do everything twice as big in the memory of victimes and i actually hope that the ****er is still alive to see that we won't back down!

*edit*

Make that 5 death, another person just died in the hospital.

[nosejam]

Now this is just f***ed up:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...tch-queen.html

Hope the bastard gets everything he deserves...

Surely there's some sort of way this could be said to be treason, which I'm guessing has the largest punishment.

What a ******bag

[p-kitty]

omg!!! my boyfriend and I are both dutch and we never knew about this!

I think next year we are going to take a vacation =D

[KLL]

i find it riddiculous that the royal family aborted all celebrations... thats not the right spirit