Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]great looks at great fun happy Queens Day! ric On Apr 29, 2012, at 10:43 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Of all the countries in which I have lived (seven at last count), the > Netherlands has the fewest public holidays. So the few that there are, are > even more appreciated. And among the nicest ones is tomorrow, April 30th, > Queen's Day. As far as I know, it was the previous queen's birthday. The > current queen Beatrix's birthday is in the autumn, but she wisely chose to > stick with the April 30th date. > > The Queens Day traditions involve outdoor markets, and outdoor eating and > drinking and partying, lots of it, preferably in silly orange outfits. Of > course, spring in NW Europe being what it is, the weather is not always > conducive to outdoor partying. But one of the years I lived there, 2005, > we got especially lucky with the weather: > > http://www.nathanfoto.com/indexqueen.html > > I wish all my Dutch friends on both lists that tomorrow's weather is as > nice as 7 years ago and that you all have a great Koninginendag. > > Groetjes, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > > YNWA > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information