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Winter fun!
By:Sjors van de Kerkhof |
Last week winter finally kicked in. The lakes in Holland were frozen and it's a kind of tradition that the Dutch go crazy about ice skating. “ World Famous” in The Netherlands is the “ Eleven city's tour”. It's been the talk of the day for almost one week. Would we be able to ride the Eleven City's or not? In the end the ice wasn't thick enough so it was cancelled. Too bad but still lots of places where we could go skating. I made some tours on our beautiful lakes, even though I’m not much of a skater it was just awesome to cruise around. It works like this, first you try to find your skates. Everybody has them but as you hardly ever use them it is pretty hard to find them. Second is to dress up, don't ask me why but a braces seems to be fashion in skating.
Other fashion items on the ice are 30 year old jackets, orange “ Unox” hats and ski goggles. Probably the hardest part is trying to park your car somewhere close to the ice. To get on the ice the easiest way is to trespass somebody's property. Usually the people would call the police, but skating changes people and they just let you through. You put on your skates, make some laps and then you end up at the “ Koek en Sopie”. Here you buy some “ Snert” , hot chocolate, schnapps or wine and you go home drunk ;)
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, feel free to visit The Netherlands any time when it's freezing and you'll see the Dutch people at their best! I'm sure somebody will guide you around!
Off course I also played some games of ice hockey. So, all in all, finally some action on the (frozen) lakes!
Next week I'll go snowboarding in Austria and after that the Dutch Boat Show (HISWA) takes place in Amsterdam. This is also the start of the wakeboard season so from now on you can check my blog every two weeks.
Cheers!
Sjors
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