Treading the ice
When the temperatures drop to below freezing the Dutch get very excited. Many head into their storage spaces to look for their shoe-like contraptions with metal strips: the skate. With the warming climate the bitterly cold winters of old do not come by that often. This year it has been colder than most and the last week especially so. The ice around the country has achieved skating thickness and a skating frenzy has exploded. There is even talk of the possibility that that race of races, the Frisian Eleven Cities race, could be held. In the mean time people young and old enjoy that most Dutch of past times.
When the temperatures drop to below freezing the Dutch get very excited. Many head into their storage spaces to look for their shoe-like contraptions with metal strips: the skate. With the warming climate the bitterly cold winters of old do not come by that often. This year it has been colder than most and the last week especially so. The ice around the country has achieved skating thickness and a skating frenzy has exploded. There is even talk of the possibility that that race of races, the Frisian Eleven Cities race, could be held. In the mean time people young and old enjoy that most Dutch of past times.
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