New Year 2020 - Den Haag | Netherlands

After a lot of contemplation.... if I should post this experience of mine or not I decided... What the heck (reminds me of someone once telling me your blog your rules!! :P) ... Let me post it! And let me post it soon before Jan ends!! Even if it's more of an experience than a travel episode of mine... But still! 

And why this experience was significant?! Well, more so because it was our very first experience of a New Year celebration abroad (outside India) and also because it was unexpected....almost out of the blue!!  Unexpected because we were not anywhere near the centre of the city Hague where all the celebrations usually take place nor were we in Amsterdam which is the hub of new year celebrations. We were just lazily sitting on our couch and wondering that it must already be past midnight in India and everyone must be fast asleep while we step into the new year 2020 here in Netherlands. And just then we heard the crackers burst with the sky set aglow! 

Now, I must admit that I have always loved watching the fire crackers (the non sound polluting ones or should I say sound explosion ones!! ) being lit by others than lighting them myself for some reason. And this just brought back old childhood memories of we kids staring into the night sky during the festive season of Diwali in India when the rocket crackers zoomed into the black night sky filling it with yellow sparkling glowing stars momentarily. 

So, while people back home kept debating on the pollution caused by the fire crackers lit during Diwali.... We here re-lived our childhood memories blissfully staring into the sky on the night of 31st Dec 2019.And as always the first experience is bound to stay as an everlasting cherished memory and so will this :)!

So, here goes the video.....from somewhere on the outskirts of the city Hague....the celebrations of New Year 2020....not with a bang but with sparkling lights :)!!

The experience was even more beautiful as the only crackers that were being lit were these sparkling rockets with little sound whatsoever!! And just to give an idea... the lighting lasted from midnight to almost 2-30 am.