Celebrating Easter Monday in the Netherlands

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When the weather turns nice like spring at Easter, many of us are drawn to the outdoors. Easter Monday is ideal for a trip, for example to the Netherlands.

There are numerous excursion destinations in the Netherlands on Easter Monday.
There are numerous excursion destinations in the Netherlands on Easter Monday.

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How to celebrate Easter Monday in the Netherlands

The “Tweede Passdag”, Easter Monday, is also a public holiday for our neighbors in the Netherlands. Here the Easter festival is called "Pasen", Paasjubel or also "Paasfest".

  • And even if Easter is celebrated in the same way as we do in Holland, the Dutch also have customs that we do not know. For example, Dutch children go from door to door at Easter and collect Easter eggs and sweets - similar to ours on Halloween or Mardi Gras.
  • Due to other shop opening laws in the Netherlands, some markets, city centers and shopping malls are also open for shopping on Easter Monday.
  • However, if you are planning a shopping tour to the Netherlands on Easter Monday, you should check the Internet beforehand, whether the shops are actually open at the selected location and what the opening times on that day are.
  • In the popular shopping and tourist town of Venlo, for example, the shops will be closed on Easter Monday 2011.
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  • In Enschede, the shops outside the city center were open on this day. This includes various furniture stores, hardware stores, garden centers, bicycle and car dealers. In the city of Enschede, however, shops in the Netherlands are also closed on this public holiday.
  • In Roermond, the outlet center with designer fashion invites you to stroll and shop on Easter Sunday as well as on Easter Monday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
  • If you don't want to search long, you might find the annual "Africa Market" on Easter Monday in Cadier en Keer, in South Limburg, a great destination. Around the mission house, Am Rijksweg 15, the Africa Center organizes a market with the focus on "Africa". At numerous stands you will find handicrafts, jewelry, fabrics and textiles, masks and beads, decorative and delicious items, tin toys and musical instruments.
  • Depending on weather, but instead of shopping, you could spend a wonderfully relaxing day on the Dutch coast.

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