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