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On the twenty-seventh of April Willem-Alexander, King of the Netherlands, will turn fifty years old. The birthday celebration is an annual festivity for our King or Queen. To celebrate King\u2019s Day, the whole country, Eindhoven included, will turn orange again. But why actually? And how do we survive this orange tradition?<\/p>\n
Why King’s Day?
\nIt all started at the moment of the thirty-first of August 1885. Where then the fifth birthday of the little princess Wilhelmina was celebrated, to gain more of a national feeling among the people of the Netherlands. This annual event was called Princess Day. During time Princess Day became Queen\u2019s Day, and on its turn Queen\u2019s Day became King\u2019s Day. The celebration\u2019s date changed a couple of times due to the birthdays of the queens and king. But now most Dutch people sleep inn at the twenty-seventh of April because they\u2019re free, thanks to this national holiday.<\/p>\n
What to wear, what to wear?
\nFirst of all, Dutch people are very happy with this extra day off. And to show it to the world we dress up in our national color: orange. The cities go along with this tradition and are filled with orange flags, banners and balloons. To fit in you should cover yourself in this color. The fun part is, everything is acceptable, the more orange the better. Besides clothing, you can also add orange accessories and even better, orange make-up. Especially very popular among women: the painted flags on the cheeks.<\/p>\n
King\u2019s Day Checklist: Orange clothing * Painted flags on your cheeks * Change in your walletTeam E52, <\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
What to do, what to do?
\nThroughout Eindhoven there are a lot of festivities organized, you can find them here<\/a>, and most of them are free. The variety of entertainment is enormous. For the active visitor there are dance festivals, hip-hop parties and more. But for the more quiet enjoyer, there are family picnics, lounge events and a lot of market stands. The flea markets are one of the biggest traditional events on the national holiday. During King\u2019s Day everybody is free to sell their second hand stuff on the street. So to survive King\u2019s Day, make sure you either have a lot of change in your wallet, or you cleaned up your attic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the twenty-seventh of April Willem-Alexander, King of the Netherlands, will turn fifty years old. The birthday celebration is an annual festivity for our King or Queen. To celebrate King\u2019s Day, the whole country, Eindhoven included, will turn orange again. But why actually? And how do we survive this orange tradition? Why King’s Day? It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[104,2725,819,486,3524,10487],"location":[],"article_type":[],"serie":[],"archives":[],"internal_archives":[],"reboot-archive":[],"class_list":["post-92109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability-nl","tag-eindhovens","tag-expats","tag-food-and-drink","tag-geen-categorie-en","tag-internationals","tag-kingsday"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":{"subtitle":"","text_display_homepage":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"Leslie van Dijk","author_link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/author\/leslie\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Sustainability<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Sustainability<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["Eindhoven<\/a>","expats<\/a>","Food and Drink<\/a>","Geen categorie<\/a>","internationals<\/a>","Kingsday<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Eindhoven<\/span>","expats<\/span>","Food and Drink<\/span>","Geen categorie<\/span>","internationals<\/span>","Kingsday<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 9 years ago","modified":"Updated 9 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on April 25, 2017","modified":"Updated on April 25, 2017"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on April 25, 2017 12:23 pm","modified":"Updated on April 25, 2017 12:23 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92109"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=92109"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=92109"},{"taxonomy":"serie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/serie?post=92109"},{"taxonomy":"archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archives?post=92109"},{"taxonomy":"internal_archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal_archives?post=92109"},{"taxonomy":"reboot-archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reboot-archive?post=92109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}