Fifty shades of red: redheads cherish 'funny connection'

The annual "Redhead Days" event, which was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, brought visitors from countries including Britain, Germany, Hungary and the United States to a series of meet-and-greet events and activities including a life drawing class.

Organisers say attendance at the three-day festival, held in the Netherlands since 2005, was sharply down on previous years, with activities including lectures and a bar crawl scrapped due to COVID-19 restrictions.

But some participants said they still felt a connection to others.