We celebrated our National Day earlier this week. I decided to check out the highlight of the Swedish horse racing calendar as it is usually described. The Nationaldagsgaloppen. At Gärdet in Stockholm, where a temporary racetrack have been set up on this day for the last decade. And as you can see in this first post, I was not the only one there. There were a number of horse races, a hat parade, some fun for the kids and more. The weather was perfect. 21C, maybe. Gärdet is a massive green field, usually when I bike across it, I will meet a few people running, or walking their dogs, but as you can see here there were thousands of happy people celebrating Nationaldagen.
What a crowd that is!
ReplyDeleteThat butterfly hat is so ridiculous, I almost want it!
ReplyDeleteWow, lots of people everywhere.
ReplyDeleteSo many people! And a good time was had by all from the looks of it.
ReplyDeleteSo much human energy in your city. Now comes the horse racing too.
ReplyDeleteI was guessing on my Swedish (non-existant, as you know), and thought "dog racing?" for dagsgalopen. Well, then I looked at the crowd. Sure enough, horses. So horses galopen. Looks like a beautiful day.
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