Here the royal brithday or the Queen's day is symbolically celebrated on the 30th April every year. Statistically it is supposed to be one of the best time of the year when the weather is mild and sunshine is more or less guranteed. Typically the celebration is started when the royal family go to a designated town or village to celebrate with crowds of well wishers. This year the town of Apeldoorn was chosen. Elsewhere, the rest of the nation especially in the big cities, the day is celebrated with street parades and open air concerts. For the populace it is a good enough reason to go out and dressed in orange to live up the ocassion. The biggest party is naturally in Amsterdam where milions would flock to the canals.
This year however was marred by an incident when a car tried to crash into the open-top bus carrying the Royal family. Five poople were killed by the crash. Immediately all major music and parade celebrations throughout the country were cancelled. Today we went to the centre of The Hague to see what left is going on a day after. There were still a few rides and stalls still operating. Loads of people were still out, enjoying the good weather.
Here the royal brithday or the Queen's day is symbolically celebrated on the 30th April every year. Statistically it is supposed to be one of the best time of the year when the weather is mild and sunshine is more or less guranteed. Typically the celebration is started when the royal family go to a designated town or village to celebrate with crowds of well wishers. This year the town of Apeldoorn was chosen. Elsewhere, the rest of the nation especially in the big cities, the day is celebrated with street parades and open air concerts. For the populace it is a good enough reason to go out and dressed in orange to live up the ocassion. The biggest party is naturally in Amsterdam where milions would flock to the canals. 
This year however was marred by an incident when a car tried to crash into the open-top bus carrying the Royal family. Five poople were killed by the crash. Immediately all major music and parade celebrations throughout the country were cancelled. Today we went to the centre of The Hague to see what left is going on a day after. There were still a few rides and stalls still operating. Loads of people were still out, enjoying the good weather. 
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