Dhe new feeling dominates you from the first moment. It creeps into every cell of the body, which involuntarily shrinks in the nine-degree cold water. For a breathtaking moment you no longer know anything. Then it starts to tingle under the skin and it becomes really warm. That gives you the courage to venture further. Just like the strawberry-blond boy in front and the skinny senior next to him, perhaps his grandfather, as well as all the others who ran on command with blue, white and orange hats.
This is the dress code when the Dutch and their predominantly German guests plunge into the North Sea on New Year’s Day. Because what scares one person can be turned into a big riot in a crowd. With this in mind, in Egmond aan Zee, the popular holiday resort in the province of North Holland, a huge crowd takes part in the traditional ritual of “Nieuwjaarsduik” at exactly 2 p.m. Similar to what is happening around this time in Zandvoort and in Bergen, in Katwijk and in Noordwijk. Except that everyone agrees that the whole thing here is more special than anywhere else because it is embedded in a complete program. Starting with the warm-up, which takes place half an hour beforehand at the beach guard.
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