Hello everyone, and we're back in the Netherlands, with our national
celebration. So, that can mean only one thing. I'm going to show you around how
we celebrate in the Netherlands Kings day.
Kings day is a celebration in the
Netherlands that started in 1885 as an initiative from the Liberals at that
time, to have a princess day for Princess Wilhelmina to create a national party a
national feeling in the Netherlands when the princess became a queen in 1895 it
meant we had Queens Day. This lasted till our last Queen a couple of years
ago. I think it's about three years ago and since that moment in time we are
celebrating the birthday of our King on the 27th of April.
Everyone is celebrating this party in a different way but you can never get old
enough for flea markets. And make sure you are early there in the morning
because the flea markets you need to sniff around search for good stuff and
most of the good stuff are gone in the afternoon. And especially the children
are here present on those flea markets to sell their stuff. The toys what they had
when they were young and get some extra cash. For the rest of the day so we're
going to explore the street markets now and then I'll show you around
what other things we'll do during Kings day
And while we walk into the next area. Where we're going to search on the flea market
and I'm on a mission I'm going to find a poker set or some board games what I
can take back to the UK. But I want to thank you for sending me through some
questions and one of the questions I got from someone was: Why are we wearing
orange? And that has to do with our history we had Willem the III who got
from the French people the area orange, orangé that he was
responsible for for reigning. It was the Empire for that place and he was also
responsible to start the Civil War and make sure our nation got independent. So
that's the reason, because his name Willem the Orange. That we are wearing
orange stuff with Kings day, the football, basically our national color is orange.
Another question I got was about the food that we're eating during Kings day.
Well the Dutch people are not really famous for its very good food but one of the
things that we are eating during this time is called oranje toempoucen or
orange éclairs, orange cream pies. That's one of the things we're eating. In our
area we're also eating sausage rolls and that's basically it
we are not really famous for our food.
So now it's the time that people are going out and enjoy the music for Kings
Day the markets are kind of gone. All the flea stuff is gone.
It's time for music
and, just an interesting fact as well if you may wonder what the King is doing
during Kings day. Every year he's visiting a different city or different
village and celebrates it over there and while he's there he's participating in
quizzes and like people are giving him gifts but also in the old traditional
Dutch games.
And that is it for Kings Day. I hope you may enjoy the
celebration once by yourself as well. And take some orange stuff with you. So, you
can blend in with the Dutch people and have a good party. And if you like this
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hope to see you in the next video