The Canal parade during Pride Amsterdam is every year on the agenda of Dave and Linda, the owners of café ‘t Achterom in The Hague. They have been sailing along with a colorful boat for five years: “We start thinking about the theme three-quarters of a year in advance,” says Dave.
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In this edition, the couple has extra long awaited. “There has been no boat parade in the past two years, so we are really eager now.”
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The owners of ‘t Achterom are the only entrepreneurs from The Hague who participate in the boat parade on Saturday 6 August in Amsterdam. They are participating for the fifth time and it is always a challenge to come up with a nice theme. In previous years that was, for example, ‘King, emperor, admiral we are all a bit gay’, ‘Love is love’, and ‘Join our club’.
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This year they are going to ‘t Achterom for years’ 80 aerobics: Let’s get physical! Think especially of many fluorescent colors. A boat you can’t miss. “That’s not difficult anyway, because we are the second-to-last”, says Dave.
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Last days and today the boat is completely decorated and the people on board have already tried on the clothes before. On Saturday they will go from The Hague to the boat around noon, which is still in Zaandam. Then the 80 person on board is picked up and they wait until they can follow the procession of other ships.
Probably they are round 00.00 hours ready. “We will then take the bus back to The Hague for the afterparty, where everyone is of course welcome.”
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This year they are going to ‘t Achterom for years’ 80 aerobics: Let’s get physical! Think especially of many fluorescent colors. A boat you can’t miss. “That’s not difficult anyway, because we are the second-to-last”, says Dave.
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Last days and today the boat is completely decorated and the people on board have already tried on the clothes before. On Saturday they will go from The Hague to the boat around noon, which is still in Zaandam. Then the 80 person on board is picked up and they wait until they can follow the procession of other ships.
Probably they are round 00.00 hours ready. “We will then take the bus back to The Hague for the afterparty, where everyone is of course welcome.”
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