Recently went to the Netherlands to visit family and have fun in Amsterdam for Koninginnedag. Took my older digital camera and problems with the batteries throughout the trip so I didn't take as many photo's as I usually would. No family in this batch of photo's so that excluded the one dog that I got several pictures of as well...
Judith - here you go:
Walking through Chinatown in den Haag we heard bagpipes...
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Looking down the stairs in my cousins apartment. The dutch members can attest to how easily it is to actually navigate stairs like this.... NOT!
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I think these flowers/plant is called Blue Rain
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In parts of the Netherlands (and northern europe) it is tradition to have a large bonfire around easter
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They really do have public urinals...
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Eric
- Cino vom Foxtal
- Abigail NORML de Weijer (over the bridge)
- Hannah the DS wanna be (over the bridge)
Amsterdam - Koninginnedag or Queensday - They wisely celebrate the Queen's birthday at the end of April when the weather is nice instead of on her real birthday in January. April 30th is the former Queen's birthday...
Heard on the news that 800,000 people showed up for the festivities in Amsterdam. The truly crowded places were SO crowded that I didn't even try to get my camera out...
The Hare Krishnas were there as well...
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...so was Sinterklaas
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just an example of all the people still streaming into the City
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Two Euro to play the game. The consolation prize was a beer.
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Eric
- Cino vom Foxtal
- Abigail NORML de Weijer (over the bridge)
- Hannah the DS wanna be (over the bridge)
Tell us about yourself: I like Dutch Shepherddogs, especially the roughcoat. At the moment we have three dogs, two DS (one female who is 10 years and one male who is six months) and one male Laekenois at the age of three. We live in the north of The Netherlands.
I had a good time. Didn't sleep well the first 1/2 of the trip though...sharing a room with my brother is not conducive to restful sleep. He snores VERY loudly.
It was very nice seeing my cousins from both sides of the family.
Eric
- Cino vom Foxtal
- Abigail NORML de Weijer (over the bridge)
- Hannah the DS wanna be (over the bridge)
Tell us about yourself: We current own 1 Dutch Shepherd - ThunderHawk's Child of Lilith "Mazikeen" And we have loved and lost 3 - Vrijheid's Amie "Vada", Vrijheid's Hafwen "Letty" and Sather's High On Life "Narcotic". We train/compete in mondioring and agility.
Tell us about yourself: Had a GSD, am getting a DS puppy in a few weeks. Compete in agility, obedience, and cross train in tons of stuff. Found out about this site from the DS Rescue yahoo list.
Excuse my ignorance, but is orange the Dutch equivalent of our red, white and blue?
nice pics!
leih merigian
Vrijheid's H'Geyser
Zodiac vom Younghaus (over the bridge)
Central VA (near Charlottesville)
It's never too late to have a happy childhood...
@ leih; the Dutch flag is red-white-blue but our royal family's last name is "van Oranje" meaning "off orange" so the "second" colour of Holland is orange. On the more serious occasions you'll see the official flag and people do not dress up, but in festivities the flag is joined by an orange pennant and people dress up in orange, like for soccer games and Queensday.
Tell us about yourself: I am a mom of 6 life forces - 2 kids and 3 dogs 1 hamster. I live in Ct. I have trained Ringsport and Agility and have 2 DS, one 15 and 7 and a Basset Hound Cookie who is 2
Tell us about yourself: I adopted a Dutch Shepherd mix (without knowing what she was) from the SPCA here in Victoria BC and am now trying to learn everything I can about this breed. My husband and I work from home most of the time so I thought it was time to get a puppy! We have his 2 boys here half the time and we wanted a nice family dog.
Sugar looks like a miniature Dutch Shepherd with floppy ears, and has every ounce of DS traits in her little body!
I hope to learn from other DS owners and share doggy experiences.
Tell us about yourself: I have had a DS for almost a year. Gwen and I are considering participating in PSA and or possible Ring Sport. I also have a Great Dane. I have grown up around working GSDs and my last GSD was a working K9 officer. I am all about dogs and animals in general and want to learn as much as I can about training.
Tell us about yourself: Dogs are my life, what can I say. GSDs primarily for nearly 50 years til bringing in my first DutchShep about 4 years ago. GSD rescue for 9 yrs, nearly 200 thru my home, rehabbed, adopted out. Been involved in AKC ob, herding, tracking, agility; Schutzhund-DVG; scent detection (HR-water)&narcotics, some patrol work. Mostly herding training at present on my little farm.
Those are excellent photos, Eric! Thanks so much for sharing as I probably will never have the good fortune/opportunity to experience this. I too was going to ask about all the orange. Public urinals? Hum?? Looks like the Dutch definitely know how to have a great time. Love the boat parties. Is there one cheese making facility that makes all that cheese or what is the story on that? A local friend has goats and makes a variety of cheeses. This was very interesting and thanks again.
GSDNanny wrote: Is there one cheese making facility that makes all that cheese or what is the story on that? A local friend has goats and makes a variety of cheeses. This was very interesting and thanks again.
In Alkmaar they have a tourist event every Friday morning during he warmer months. There are numerous places that make cheese .. but I don't know specifically about the cheese that is used during the Friday morning event. I would presume it is from multiple producers. ...maybe one of the native Dutch can answer that.
Eric
- Cino vom Foxtal
- Abigail NORML de Weijer (over the bridge)
- Hannah the DS wanna be (over the bridge)
GSDNanny wrote: Is there one cheese making facility that makes all that cheese or what is the story on that? A local friend has goats and makes a variety of cheeses. This was very interesting and thanks again.
In Alkmaar they have a tourist event every Friday morning during he warmer months. There are numerous places that make cheese .. but I don't know specifically about the cheese that is used during the Friday morning event. I would presume it is from multiple producers. ...maybe one of the native Dutch can answer that.
It's from 2 producers, Campina and Cono, they each make several sorts of cheese, young, medium, old etc.
Oh...It took forever to get all the pics to come up, but it was sure worth it. Lovely impressions! Koninginnedag madness, Keukenhof beauty and just plain ole' Holland. Thanks!
@ Leih. Dutch cheese is like Wisconsin cheese over here. Quite a 'famous' export article. The cheese market is a hold over of the old times, now only for tourist purposes. Lots of dairly in Holland (even a Dutch dairy breed: the friesian cow, a holsteiner look alike cousin) and therefore lots of dairy products.
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Looks like the Dutch definitely know how to have a great time. Love the boat parties. Is there one cheese making facility that makes all that cheese or what is the story on that? A local friend has goats and makes a variety of cheeses. This was very interesting and thanks again.
Judith Van Neerland Dutch Shepherds 