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Nina's Blog - Saturday 17th May 2025

Saturday 17th May 2025, 17:25

Today is Constitution Day, always referred to simply by the date 17. mai. Pronounced something like this

This was the first time for many years that I have walked alongside the procession. I found it very emotional, almost to the point of tears. I just wish the rest of the world could be like this. We celebrate Constitution Day with a children's procession not a military one. The message is inclusion not power. People dress as they please, most in some kind of finery but some in very everyday clothes. Some women wore very short dresses and others floor length and everything in between And of course many wore bunad which is a kind of national dress that varies from valley to valley in the details of the colours and decoration.
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ninalanyon · 70-79, T
Saturday 17th May 2025, 17:57

I dithered for quite a while yesterday about whether to join the procession and eventually decided that I would. In most of the last ten years I have either been out of the country or had some reason to not go.

I wore my favourite long summer skirt, red blouse, red jewellery, red sunglasses, and red nail varnish. The skirt is a two layer wraparound. I was going to wear my broad brimmed red hat as well but it was too breezy. Hardly anyone wears a hat for 17. mai here anyway, i think i only saw half a dozen hats today, mostly on men.