I am spending a prolonged weekend in Breda, a small town in North Brabant in the Netherlands. The reason is that my Tilburg quarters do not have available space for a few days. So, I followed the kind invitation to a colleague's home in Breda. It is nice little place and extremely lively and very friendly, with a lot of cultural events of different kinds on offer. The one I witnessed most closely was the celebration of the 2017 Red Hair Day, where those with ginger or red hair united on the basis of this commonality. It was a happy event, and a local newspaper reported 40 000 red hair visitors from all over the world are in town. We also went to Zundert, Van Gogh's birth place, to see the Flower Parade. This was a very major event and it was amazing that about a million of flowers had to be mounted per wagon. The weather was and stayed beautiful, which I really appreciated not just for our entertainment, but also for all the hard work which went into preparing these colorful events.
Red hair shining in the sun on Red Hair Day.
Red Hairers of the World - unite!
Millions of flowers make a picture in Zundert
The entrance to the party (here in Zundert) in the new age of terrorism.