San Francisco and the Netherlands have many things in common: one of them is their mutual love of the color orange. The City of San Francisco will be seeing orange again, as the Dutch community celebrates Queen’s Day 2011 with a festival on Union Square.
On April 30th each year, the Dutch gather to celebrate the birthday of the Queen of the Netherlands. The biggest celebration takes place in Amsterdam, where orange-clad crowds take to the streets to mark this day of national pride with vrijmarkts (“free markets”), open air concerts, and orange-themed food and beverages.