Samstag, 30. Mai 2015

Kingsday or Koningsdag

On the 27th of April we, the people in The Netherlands, but more of course all dutch people, celebrated Kingsday aka Koningdag. It marks the birth of the king Willem-Alexander. The night before is also a biiig party in the whole country and bigger cities. In The Hague there were outside parties everywhere in the city centre which was a lot of fun and such a grand experience ! Literally THE PARTY OF THE YEAR !!!

Anyway, on Kingsday there is a national bank holiday and everyone is dressing up in orange. EVERYWHERE ! The motto is wear as much orange as you can, haha !

Lucie and me decided that we wanted to go to Amsterdam on Kingsday. Of course this is what every tourist plans to do on Kingsday if he is in The Netherlands so we were a bit doubting if this was really a great idea. Full trains, millions of people in Amsterdam, drunk people, boats etc. . But, we decided we go to Amsterdam as it's a chance we maybe won't have next year so we took the train to Amsterdam which was luckily not that crowded as expected. The dutch rail company organized that pretty well !

In Amsterdam it was pretty crowdy but as there were no trams running in Amsterdam this day people could walk everywhere on the street which made the whole situation with lots of people a bit more relaxed.

And what can I say?! It was a life-time experience !!! Sitting by a gracht and having a beer watching the party on the water with great music, it was so much fun and we really enjoyed it. I think everyone should once visit Amsterdam on Kingsday or any other big city ! It's a completely different side of partying and what an attitude !










Sonntag, 24. Mai 2015

Keukenhof

In April we have been to Keukenhof. If you don't know what this is, this is a place near Leiden, in Lisse, it's one of the largest flower gardens in the world with about 7 million flowers. So basically, you can see there a lot of flowers, a lot of tulips in every colour. The special fact about Keukenhof is that it's only open from March to May. The entree cost around 16 € but I think it is worth it. It's a tourist attraction of course.






















Dienstag, 5. Mai 2015

Enkhuizen !

After I was in Volendam, I continued my trip to Enkhuizen. Enkhuizen is a small city (about 20.000 inhabitants) in the province of Noord-Holland. Also Enkhuizen lays at the IJsselmeer and woaaah, what an amazing city it is!