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The goal of my long visit to the South of the Netherlands was the Bloemencorso in Zundert; a yearly parade of flowerfloats. These are organised all over the Netherlands, but Zundert is the oldest (since 1936!) and biggest corso (20 floats) every first Sunday in September. Every neighbourhood (or hamlet) of Zundert has been working for months to build their own dahliafloat. On the Friday before the parade, they start putting on the fresh flowers; it's a community effort to get all the floats ready for the Sunday Parade.

I visited the Bloemencorso in Zundert before (in 2016 [LJ and 2018 [LJ].
This year I signed up for a corsotour on Saturday, where you get to hear about the history of the event and you visit two construction sites, to take a closer look at the finishing touches on the floats! Come join me :-)

( Visiting flowerfloat construction sites! )

Up next will be my photos of the flowerparade. If you can't wait I have already posted my videos at my YouTube, here's my playlist: Bloemencorso Zundert 2024.

J.

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If you've been following me for a while, you may remember my visits to the big Flowersculpture Parade in Zundert in 2016 and last year; a long train- and bustrip to the South of the Netherlands that takes about three hours. This year I decided to explore two smaller events nearby; these are only a 50 minute busride away from my town! I have one planned next week and yesterday after work in the morning, I traveled to Sint Jansklooster for their yearly 'Bloemencorso'!

Unlike in Zundert where the massive flowerstructures are all pushed by manpower with a whole group of people hidden underneath, other Corsos in the Netherlands use motorized carts, so the parade goes a little faster. Obviously it's still slow enough to enjoy the show, but compared to my experience last year, it felt like they were speeding by! There were also fewer designs, but honestly this parade was just as impressive and enjoyable. I had a great time!

I made a couple of videos, here's a playlist that features the designs that had moving bits:



If you want to see all twelve designs, below is a picspam of 82 photos (hey, I had to capture them from all sides and in detail;)

( Thousands of flowers! )

More: Flower sculpture parade! [Bloemen Corso Zundert 2016] [[DW2016] & Bloemencorso Zundert 2018 [DW2018]

Heh, it seems all I do at LJ these days is post picspams. I plan to return to regular browsing and commenting and updating tomorrow. With my calf still healing from that whiplash, I've been feeling very blah and not up for anything after getting home from work (when I finally have managed to climb the stairs up to my apartment) *sighs*
I am glad I had already planned a couple of fun weekend things before the accident, so I didn't have a chance to get down on my days off in the past few weeks:)

Below are photos (and videos!) from last weekend's adventure: I took the bus and train and train and bus to travel down South to the small town of Zundert for their yearly flower corso. The local communities work all year on their huge designs made out of dahlias -all those flowers are put on fresh in the final three days of building the sculptures!- and they present all their creations in a spectacular parade.


( LOOK HOW PRETTY! )
I had a great day and whole heartedly recommend going to one of these flower corsos. Zundert is the oldest (and best;) one, but the first week of September these parades are all over the Netherlands; well worth the travel!

J.