Don’t like Carnival? It’s searching with a magnifying glass for other things to do this weekend. But there are alternatives. How about taking care of camels at a real camel dairy, an alpaca walk or dancing at a free concert by a reagge band?
What you can do depends of course on your budget. Carnival celebrants who eat a bite to eat in the city between the hustle and bustle quickly break down 80 to 100 euros a day. If you can spend that money on non-carnival activities, the possibilities are endless.
But first we assume that you have an empty or narrow purse. Something about inflation white.
1. Morning walk
Join the ranger on a morning walk. Then Sunday morning at Huis ter Heide. While the carnival celebrants sleep it off, you report at ten o’clock at the parking lot at De Moer where the walk starts. You will see Scottish Highlanders and learn more about their behavior. Participation costs a tenner. Do you think that’s too much? Of course you can also go alone in the woods. According to the forecasts, it will certainly remain dry on Monday and Tuesday. Put on good walking shoes and go. Not a humpapa band to be seen between the trees and heath, only birds whistling their own concert.
2. Cinema film
The cinema is also a good alternative if you don’t like carnival. And there are many running blockbusters. Do you like superheroes? Then visit, for example, ‘Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania’, the sequel to the first ‘Antman’ from 2018. And other sequels are also worth seeing: ‘Avatar: the Way of the Water’ or ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’. If you’re going with the kids, you can visit ‘De Puss in Boots 2’ this weekend.
3. Weekend away
We already said it. The average carnival celebrator quickly smashes 400 euros with carnival. For that money you can also go away for a weekend. By car you can be above the major rivers where there is little or no carnival. Avoid Gelderland, because there they also celebrate carnival in some villages and towns. Or what do you think of Belgium. You can also fly to Barcelona, for example, but if you still have to book now, you will have to pay almost 300 euros for a return ticket from Eindhoven Airport.
4. Watching camels
You don’t have to go to the desert to see camels. It is possible within our own province. There is a real one in Berlicum camel dairy, where you can do a ‘safari’. You can pet the animals, get a guided tour and you can bottle feed the calves and taste camel milk. Do you have more with the alpaca, a distant brother of the camel? In among others Vorstenbosch and Mariahout you can take a long walk with alpacas.
5. To the museum
Of course you can go to the Efteling or the Beekse Bergen within our own province. But maybe your kids will like one Efteling exhibition also nice. It can be seen in the Noordbrabants Museum in Den Bosch. Think of the first mirror of Snow White and original drawings by Anton Pieck. Without children it is nice to visit an exhibition full of embroidery in the Textile Museum. Even Maxima worked on the curtains.
6. Reggae band
From the smallest to the largest café, they will play almost all hits from Lamme Frans and Snollebollekes for the next five days. Still, you don’t have to despair. For example, a reggae band will perform in Gemert tonight. You can swing along with Consciousness for free in Gemert.