Ten visits to Amsterdam for King & Queens day warrants its own special place. Each one was unique and perfectly exhausting.
The tradition for this time is to wear orange (this comes from the L’Orange royal family). For 90% of the population, its not a good look. And being a ginger, its definitely not the best colour for my tepid complexion.
King’s Day carnival is held on 27 April (his official birthday – Queen’s day was the pre-cursor for this and shuffled to the last weekend of April, but after the Queen’s abdication the new King set it to his birthday). More then a million people tumble into the streets and onto the canals to paint the town orange at one of the world’s biggest street parties. You can see live jazz, techno, R & B and other sorts of music displays on the streets.