Queensday tomorrow. (Abdication)

Queensday tomorrow. (Abdication)

We Dutch people have been celebrating Queens day for 33 years on the 30th of April. Tomorrow starts a new decade, our Queen Beatrix  will abdicate in favour of her eldest son Willem-Alexander, the heir apparent to the throne. He will be the first king of the Netherlands in 123 years. Next year we will celebrtate this day on the 27th of April, and we will call it King's day instead of Queen's day. We will celebrate it on the 27th cause on that date it will be the King's birthday. It sure will be a celebration, reporters from almost all over the world are stranded in Amsterdam to give report to their country over the abdication. I'm positive about our new King, and I'm not the only one, almost every Dutch citizen feels a 'fresh air' going trough our monarchy.

Typical Dutch 'Queensday' celebration in Amsterdam, I don't expect anything else tomorrow.

Willem-Alexander is our King's name, on the 2nd of February 2002, he married Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti, Máxima is an Argentine woman. Together they recieved 3 gorgeous Daughters. I can write alot about our Queen and new King but let's not Our whole country will celebrate tomorrow's Queens/Kings (abdication) day, there will be festivals, music, performances, markets, fairs, etc, etc in every village and city. There are few fests and markets aswell in my city, but I planned to go just a bit further. I decided to go to Enschede, there will be markets, fests and performances aswell. The trip to Enschede will only take a little 30 minutes, I could have go to Amsterdam, but that place will be packed with people. So, yeah, Enschede it will be.

Markets and fairs in the streets of Amsterdam on Queensday.

I think I will leave just before lunch and return in the late afternoon, I still have two days off, so all good. Ofcource I will watch the whole abdication back on TV in the evening, nice and relaxing. Today was just a bit of a lazy, boring day actually. I finished painting the bathroom and did a few other things. I'm glad the painting is done, the bucket with paint was almost empty. Damn, and I managed to have make a few stains in my favorite sweater. The paint has dried and there's now way I can get it out. I will wash the sweather a few times and look at the results, sigh. I'm looking forward to tomorrow's out, I haven't been out for a while. So, that will be good, the weatherforecast is perfect aswell. Sunshine and no rain!