Ice skating

Happy new year everybody! I hope you enjoyed the festive days, I certainly did. Anyway, not much has beeon going on in my skating world in the last months. I still need to share the pictures of the annual London Santa Skate 2008, that deserves a post of its own, but has yet to be written. But today my post features new pictures we took today. With the deep frost we had last week, the first lakes are being opened to the public. So today Michi and me drove south to the "Steinhuder Meer" near Hannover, which is a huge but very shallow lake that freezes quickly. Not for a walk, but to go ice-skating! It was a great adventure, I had never skated on a big lake before, and never on natural ice since childhood.

We skated around for about two hours, until the cold wind finally crept into gloves and shoes. The ice was of very good quality, mostly perfectly smooth, and you could go and go and go with no corners... great.

Let us hope the weather remains cold, so we can maybe return next weekend! If not, there is still the ice rink session we attend on Wednesdays, to get an idea of ice technique, which definitely was not great today. But fun we had, and that is what counts most for me.