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Queens day It's Queens-day today in Holland. Everyone has a free day, so we all love to celebrate the birthday of the former Queen, because who doesn't love a free day  Beatrix made this day possible in remembrance of her mother, so we are celebrating actually the birthday of Princess Juliana today. But this year the day was supposed to fall on Sunday. Holland is a religious country so it was moved to Saturday, which is today. I had no big plans for today, so I went to the post office and discovered it was closed. My next stop, the supermarket, was also closed. How would I survive two days without bread? So I drove my bike furthermore and finally I saw an open supermarket. Of course the bread was gone since you need to be really fast for fresh bread over here, so it bought some toast. It will work too I hop. But now I am home again and wondering what to do. I can go into town and see the sales. The custom during Queens-day is selling your old stuff to other people. So it's like one big yard sale all over the streets and you are among 20.000 till a million people (depending in which town you are) to sit there selling or browsing through the goods on display. I did it for years, but since today isn't really a sunny day, but yet a really cold day, I decided to stay home and here I am now.. typing this little report of my day. |
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4/29/2006 6:06 pm |
It seems the Queens-Day is interested, not like the Queens-Day in England. Enjoy your weekend.
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So, as a consumer, on queen's day, you are almost dying out of no good shopping, aha. Muffles, what you said make me recall those bicycles in Amsterdam...
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5/2/2006 10:37 am |
Yes we have a lot of bicycles here I am depending on it since I have no car
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