Tulip Time!

As I’m searching for a job and we are expats we went to a fair that combined the two things. There were recruiting agencies and companies that help expats with taxes insurances, etc.

This fair was in Den Hague, so we thought we would go there for a couple of hours and then  go search for tulips again!

The problem was that there were too many people for so few recruiting agencies… so there were huge lines. I stayed ion a line for at least one hour just to get to talk to someone. The purpose of the fair was to promote the companies, not recruiting! So at the end they only say: “hey, look at our website…” But seeing the lines I thought there was something else? Me and all the other visitors I guess… 

We stayed more than we would have liked to, but then we went for the Tulips.

We found many tulip fields, BEAUTIFUL!!! 

Then we went for a cup of tea, and enjoy the rest of the sunny day at the terrace of a cafe. We went for a walk and we stopped at a photography shop, to see pictures of the cortege of cars decorated with tulips. We knew that it was in the end of April, but we didn’t know the day and neither realise that it could be this weekend.

For once we were very lucky. We weren’t aware that the owner of the shop was in it until he opened the door to speak with a friend (I think). My boyfriend almost jumped to the guy, to ask when the parade was. 

The flowered cars had left Noordwijk and were on the way to Haarlem. They told us that we could go to Haarlem to see them at night, so we did some extra 40km to see them and it was totally worth it.

Our photos are not that good because it was night but the cars were fantastic. The curious thing is that the car that won the first prize was “the Portuguese haan”.

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