Netherlands Traditions

The vast majority of the population - Christians (Catholics - 38%, Protestant - 30%), also free to live representatives of virtually all world religions.

Amsterdam - Amsterdam Carnival (February), Amsterdam the week of Art and Blues Festival (March), the annual demonstration against Racism (March 21), the most important holiday of the country - Queen's Birthday (April 30), Dutch Theater Festival (June), Jazz Festival North Sea (July), the largest annual parade (15 August), Feast of the most beautiful flowers (September), the Jordanian Festival (mid September), the International Festival of cannabis (the third week of November), a solemn procession of Santa Claus (December 6), St. Nicholas Day ( 5-19 December) and the day of St. Sylvester (December 31).

Maastricht conducted the famous Food Festival "Privenemint" (last Sunday of August). In the summer across the country held the traditional fairs and people's celebrations - "Kermes", as well as many "days of the fisherman", various music festivals and sporting events.

Festival of cannabis in Amsterdam
Amsterdam is famous not only for its museums and canals, but also coffee shops that offer a variety of marijuana. Every year there is held November 20-24 Festival of cannabis. Within five days, coffee shops compete in five categories: the best kind of marijuana, hashish, the best, better seeds, marijuana, and the best product of processing of hemp (for example, beer or the muffins). The jury evaluates the appearance, smell and taste of the product, and produced their effect. To get on the jury can anyone who is willing to pay 200 euros for Cannabis Cup judge's pass. For those who plan to buy it in advance, ordering by phone or online, ticket prices will be slightly lower - $ 200.

Ordinary visitors can taste food from hemp burgers to cheese and see hemp fashion. You can purchase various devices for smoking marijuana and souvenirs. These days, stores offer a large selection of jewelry, aromamasel and cosmetics based on cannabis, as well as clothes made of hemp fiber

Official holidays and weekends:
January 1 - New Year's.
3rd - 4 th nedeyai April - Good Friday.
April 30 - Queen's Day, a national holiday.
May 1 - Labor Day.
4 May - Memorial Day, the Day of Remembrance of the Second World War.
May 5 - Day of Victory over fascism.
August 15 - National Day of Memories.
December 25 - Day of St. Nicholas.
25, 26 December - Christmas.
December 26 - Boxing Day ( "Boxing Day").
If a holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, then the output is often declared the previous Friday or following Monday.

Netherlands is honesty, sincerity, and thrift, moderation. Wealth will never be exhibiting at the show.
If the Dutchman is in the room, he greets all present, and this applies not only to business offices, and shops, waiting rooms, compartments of railway carriages.

In relation to the Dutch never to show a sense of superiority. Such manifestations evoke a feeling of rejection.
Important aspect of prosperity is planning. Every aspect of the problem worked out in detail. In this the Dutch are like the Germans. Almost all Dutch entrepreneurs speak good English. Inhabitants of the country is not only a wide dissemination of the English language, but also respect for all British.

Netherlands - the only country in the world, where officially authorized the use of soft drugs, which are sold to all adults in kafeshopah. That is officially permitted only natural agricultural products - marijuana, hashish. Potent opium, cocaine, crack cocaine, and psychedelic achievements of modern chemistry are prosecuted in the Netherlands, just as in the rest of the civilized world.