Around Christmas and New Year we’ve been to the UK and The Netherlands. In the UK we visited, among other activities, The Proms in Birmingham’s Symphony Hall, the interior of it shown by this picture. (Thanks, L. & M. for inviting us!)

It’s a typical British tradition, so a lot of little Union Flags were distributed when buying a program. Some even wore a bowler hat in Union Flag-pattern.

Ready for take-off: the orchestra has arrived and everyone is eagerly awaiting the conductor to follow suit.

Waving the little flags and community singing during Arne’s repeated ‘Rule, Brittania!’ – see and hear the next item

More waving and of course community singing when Elgar’s ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ was performed, again repeated – see and hear the next item. We did not back out from the waving and singing, far from it, and expected to be awarded with a British passport at the exit. It was not to be, so we’re still in the ‘possession’ of a single nationality.