Here are a few photos from the New Years Eve celebrations this year, taking sometime after midnight. It definitely seemed like most people did their fireworks before midnight rather than after. There were still a lot of fireworks going off — I just didn’t get any good photos of those!

And what would a blog post be without a photo of a small New Years Eve fire:

And finally, here’s a link to a drone video on YouTube someone made this year of the New Year’s Eve celebrations here in The Hague. They also made a video of last year’s fireworks extravaganza as well.
Even in our small village in Friesland it gets crazy. Not as crazy as the cities but still crazier than I would have thought before I moved here.
Yep. Though I feel like my husband is right and there are less and less personal fireworks each year. Although it is more likly that everyone spends their money on the big ones that are over faster.