August 19, 2012

• (written on 18 April 2013)

  

  The second day of Hartjesdagen is famous for the fact that many drag queens (and some drag kings) parade on Zeedijk all afternoon. It's usually great to see how so many of them have done so much work to dress up. Nothing is left to chance. All accessories meticulously planned, wigs and dresses as flamboyant as can still be considered legal and sane, and make-up applied with a precision that would make space scientist blush with embarrassment. Today the ladies had a huge challenge to overcome though because with outside temperatures around 37C (100F), many of them were suffering badly from frocks that were way too warm and mascara that was running way too fast. 

  Before I went over to Zeedijk, I spent some hours with Alfonso on a canal cruise boat. It really was too hot to do anything really but we hoped that a boat would somehow provide some coolness on the water. No such luck though. Especially because we ended up sitting in the sun and not in the shade. Not cooled down at all, Alfonso returned home to spend his last hours in Amsterdam inside, while I went to Zeedijk to have a look at how the ladies were coping with the heat. I dropped Alfonso off at the station at the end of the afternoon, returned to Zeedijk for a bit still and then went home. The last hours of a scorching weekend.

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