Bloemencorso is Dutch for Flower Parade or Flower Pageant. A number of places in the Netherlands hold these annual parades. Understandable really, given that flowers are big business in the Netherlands. According to this, the flower auctions in the Netherlands handle 60-70 percent of the total world trade in flowers.
Anyway, a small town, Lichtenvoorde, is famous for its annual Bloemencorso, and as it lies within a 30 minute cycle ride from where we live, I cycled along last Sunday to take a look at the 77th Bloemencorso. The floats were spectacular, and are covered with hundreds of thousands of dahlia blossoms – all stuck on by hand. Here’s a few examples:
The King Kong moved and roared – the human Fay Wray screamed…
Many of the floats were powered solely by human power
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What it must have been like in there, pushing the float on a hot day, with the sound system on the float blaring out next to your ears, I dread to think.
The full set of photos I took are to be seen up on Flickr, here.
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