Did you missed the Flower Parade?
Watch the compilation video of TV West. It does take 25 minutes and is spoken in Dutch. But don’t let that put you off. You can just turn the sound down or off, So press the arrow on the screen and go.
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Flowers and floats [...]
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Trip through Europe by flower parade
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Big Band on Bikes in Haarlem – orchestra on Bikes doesn’t sound right somehow.
We had biked quietly to Hillegom in the late afternoon, and we watched the flower parade come through. We also had priviledged seats – seats that we had discovered when arrived in Hillegom – about 9.5 k’s from home in Haarlem. We [...]
I wanted stationary photographs of the Viking Float – being a Viking, born in Denmark and because it was fantastic.
But you do not always get what you want – and probably all Dutch people know that the whole parade does not end up in Haarlem for viewing because it is just too big. It [...]
Flower parade brochure – which has the route and some detail in English.
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HAARLEM – Zondag 25 april staan de praalwagens van het Bloemencorso opgesteld op de Gedempte Oudegracht en de Nassaulaan.
On Sunday all the floats will be on display on de Gedempte Oudegracht to Nassaulaan. These are worth seeing even if you have seen the parade already, and even if flowers do not excite you that much [...]
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Saturday – the Annual floral parade to Haarlem, from Noordwijk – so if you are in the Netherlands and close to Haarlem or anywhere on the route – check with your hotel concierge – because this a parade that should be missed.
The theme this year is “Journey through Europe”
This will be the 63rd [...]
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Please do not be upset if you are from the Netherlands as I fully appreciate that there are flowers everywhere here in the Netherlands. It is an enormous part of the culture and I applaud it. I love seeing people balancing huge bouquets and their shopping and their children on bicycles. (Well sometimes I don’t [...]
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