The marching bands of The Hague

After a nice breakfast I went downtown with a friend to study some Dutch in the sun. It was pretty hard to concentrate though, because there were marching bands going past us all the time (including a Scottish one - really good!).

At one point, the marching band stopped right in front of us. We were really trapped and couldn't go anywhere for about 10-15 minutes while they were playing with trumpets right in our ears. All around them were people who had stopped to watch the show, and well, I felt pretty exposed actually.