Thank you for sharing Fed. Norway is where I'm visiting end of this year beginning of next! Awesome parade and people! ❤ Blessings, as always from Scotland.
Beautiful blonde hair, naturally beautiful people and proud culture. My Mum's 4% Norwegian, the rest all scot/irish so the tiny bit that's not Irish/Scottish in me in Norwegian ❤ Hope to meet you over there soon brother for a coffee or a trip to a different dimension which I'm currently residing in 😂
Very nice parade and such a huge community turn out. I will say that if I tried to walk on Stilts I’d break a bone. I’d be hanging out with the kids jumping over the limbo stick. 🎉🎉
Yeah this is a town next to where I live in Stavanger, this is where my sister and her family live so we went to go see the children marching, in Stavanger there's marches with tons of people in all parts of town and in the city senter, everyone joins in on this, it's very rare to not join in watching one or more of the marches or being part of one as a parent to one of the children in Kindergarten etc. We often call the day "the children's day", since children are our future
@@lynndalton733 Inside the arena, it's hard to see them because of all the people, lol, very long ques, last couple of years the end station for the march was the local beach by this town and the food stands were on the lawn by the beach. This year they decided to use the arena
There's no actual dress code but it's tradition to wear Bunad the old traditional clothes you see, every region and town have their own variety and every variety has some minor varieties too, mostly you can choose some different colors for the colored parts. Many expats who live here who have kids in kindergarten wear their own countries special traditional dress too, you could see some Ukrainians with their clothes and Africans too. And Norwegians who moved here from another part of the country will of course wear their regional Bunad from home.
It's the children, so school classes and kindergartens, the kindergarteners have a parent or both with them, in small places like here also some clubs, boy scouts, trail bike club etc. but towards the end of the march a lot more people have joined often since everyone is going to the in this case Arena (sometimes the gathering place can be a beach or school yard etc.) to eat and activities held there. The national day is often referred to as "The Children's day". The children are our future so we dedicate the day to them with the marches, fun and games and as much hotdogs, burgers, ice cream and cake as they can eat. In Stavanger the larger city next to this town they have a separate march for all the clubs like Karate, Football teams, Volleyball etc. and also every part of the city has their own marches for schools and kindergartens and this is true for the whole country, everyone attends in some way be it in the marches or as bystanders coming to see their nieces or nephews or grandchildren marching etc. Usually the marches make a point of going past old people's retirement homes so they can also feel included, the workers there will usually bring the old people out to see the march and some watch from balconies and so on
@@ToilaCarissa I guess 4th of July. It's different but similar, since we do also celebrate this day because we finally left the forced union with Sweden. Kind of like you left England. We had been very poor for a long time and had to enter different unions with our neighbors and now we were finally free again to do as we please!
@Fedorevsky kinda... but celebrating our future by recognizing kids isn't something we do; and we definitely don't include our elders in elderly living places. I shared your information with my siblings, and they love your holiday 😊
Thank you for sharing Fed. Norway is where I'm visiting end of this year beginning of next! Awesome parade and people! ❤ Blessings, as always from Scotland.
Beautiful blonde hair, naturally beautiful people and proud culture. My Mum's 4% Norwegian, the rest all scot/irish so the tiny bit that's not Irish/Scottish in me in Norwegian ❤ Hope to meet you over there soon brother for a coffee or a trip to a different dimension which I'm currently residing in 😂
Happy Norway Day! Loved seeing all the Norwegian dresses. Thanks for sharing.
How lovely! Thanks for sharing your traditions :)
happy norway day ! thank you for sharing it was quite wholesome to watch
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Very nice parade and such a huge community turn out. I will say that if I tried to walk on Stilts I’d break a bone. I’d be hanging out with the kids jumping over the limbo stick. 🎉🎉
Yeah this is a town next to where I live in Stavanger, this is where my sister and her family live so we went to go see the children marching, in Stavanger there's marches with tons of people in all parts of town and in the city senter, everyone joins in on this, it's very rare to not join in watching one or more of the marches or being part of one as a parent to one of the children in Kindergarten etc. We often call the day "the children's day", since children are our future
@@Fedorevsky Thank you Fed, that explains it more for me. What a lovely day!! My only question is, where’s all the food booths! L O L
@@lynndalton733 Inside the arena, it's hard to see them because of all the people, lol, very long ques, last couple of years the end station for the march was the local beach by this town and the food stands were on the lawn by the beach. This year they decided to use the arena
Back again, (for the algorithm & my curiosity), is there a dress code? Or do people want to dress nicely?
There's no actual dress code but it's tradition to wear Bunad the old traditional clothes you see, every region and town have their own variety and every variety has some minor varieties too, mostly you can choose some different colors for the colored parts. Many expats who live here who have kids in kindergarten wear their own countries special traditional dress too, you could see some Ukrainians with their clothes and Africans too. And Norwegians who moved here from another part of the country will of course wear their regional Bunad from home.
FUN! 😊🎉
Who participates? Does everyone just walk down the road together? Or are only certain people who can (like the Rose Parade)?
It's the children, so school classes and kindergartens, the kindergarteners have a parent or both with them, in small places like here also some clubs, boy scouts, trail bike club etc. but towards the end of the march a lot more people have joined often since everyone is going to the in this case Arena (sometimes the gathering place can be a beach or school yard etc.) to eat and activities held there.
The national day is often referred to as "The Children's day". The children are our future so we dedicate the day to them with the marches, fun and games and as much hotdogs, burgers, ice cream and cake as they can eat.
In Stavanger the larger city next to this town they have a separate march for all the clubs like Karate, Football teams, Volleyball etc. and also every part of the city has their own marches for schools and kindergartens and this is true for the whole country, everyone attends in some way be it in the marches or as bystanders coming to see their nieces or nephews or grandchildren marching etc.
Usually the marches make a point of going past old people's retirement homes so they can also feel included, the workers there will usually bring the old people out to see the march and some watch from balconies and so on
😭 that's so sweet! Great tradition. 🥰🥰Why doesn't the US have something like this? Ugh.
Yay for Norway 😊
@@ToilaCarissa I guess 4th of July. It's different but similar, since we do also celebrate this day because we finally left the forced union with Sweden. Kind of like you left England. We had been very poor for a long time and had to enter different unions with our neighbors and now we were finally free again to do as we please!
@Fedorevsky kinda... but celebrating our future by recognizing kids isn't something we do; and we definitely don't include our elders in elderly living places. I shared your information with my siblings, and they love your holiday 😊
@@ToilaCarissa Yeah I guess, when I hear about 4th of July celebrations it sounds more like New Years Eve here, with fireworks and such