Posted by Chrissy (in Amsterdam)
We weren’t a huge amount of people, I guess about 25, but we had lots of inflatable whale-come dolphin characters, blue balloons provided by Sanne, Pete and his whale bus complete with loudspeakers emitting whalesong and three folk on the African drums. Lots of initiative on flyers which were generally well received.
The local TV was there and we were the most photographed “item” on the boulevard this afternoon. The weather Gods were kind and it didn’t rain, in fact it was very pleasant. There were lots of people around and we were able to discuss the whaling issues with many of them as we handed out the flyers. I did take the dogs and as they’re white, fluffy and small we nicknamed them baby seals for today. We were all wearing as much blue as we could and I had a “stop killing whales” T-shirt over my rucksack, so the message was clearly on view to non-Dutch speakers.
Sanne had organized everything well and in typical Dutch fashion we had a police escort… on a very nifty mountain bike!
– Chrissy