Snow doesn’t normally stick around for more than a day around here, so it’s quite extraordinary to have the city blanketed in white. Add to that an unseasonably cold week that went to -15C, and you have a perfect recipe for a properly cold winter scene.
The canals were transformed into outdoor ice skating rinks. People of all ages flocked the ice with their ice skates, unceremoniously carried in their used grocery bags. You see parents skating non-chalantly with their baby stroller up-and-down the canal, kids pulling each other on a sled. It’s all very informal and very impromptu, like a flash mob. Except this one is very much unorganized and uncoordinated.
There’s something beautiful about rare, ephemeral occurence like this past weekend. Knowing how rare & fleeting it was, everyone was determined to enjoy every second of the winter weekend, on ice. Us included.
It´s good to see you rowing on a Slow Boat, Selina! keep it up.
This scene of people skating on the canal is familiar, in Ottawa it freezes and the make a 14K skating ring with all sorts of fun things. I don´t skate, but when in Ottawa I loved just to wlak (carefully) and do people watching.
Hope you are enjoying Holland and life there.
you have been quiet inWhatsApp also, we must communicate again.
Love and hugs for you both, RU
Yes, sorry I’ve been out of touch. Was too spoiled by how easily it was to go off the grid when we’re in Africa and I guess forgot to readjust my communication settings 😜 Hope you are well.