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Outdoor ice tales..... I am very grateful with the help of Jamie Hess (USA) in translating the skating stories in this site.
When the Hague ice-oval "De Uithof" reopens every 1th of
october, I am present there. On my high-tech Raps-fabricated blades, with or without the fellow members of my "core team" (skate friends).
If (unfortunately "if" and not "when" in Holland) the winter falls in, the real thing starts. I go for making outdoor skatetours on smooth nature polder ice!!!
My skate stories include a small map, on which you can find
out the route I skated. So for someone interested in skating that tour, it makes it easier to do so. You could skate alone or together with others in a KNSB-organised tour.
Tour skating info.I love skating, as most Dutch people do. In winter if there is nature ice we go out and skate through the polders. When the ice is safe enough there are tours organised. Its a pity we didn't have real winters the last three years. So the waters didn't freeze up and I visited the "Uithof" 400 meters covered oval in Den Haag weekly. In summer I do biking and (inline) skating. Read about this ("skeeleren" in Dutch) at the counterpart of this site.
The local ice skate clubs organise the original KNSB-tours (Royal Dutch Skaters Ass.)
On such tours about 5000-10000 people go out skating. You get the necessary info from TV (videotext), newspaper and website: The longer trips are only organized during the longer cold periods. Some neighbouring shorter tours are combined. The most famous tours, like the Frisian "11-Stedentocht" (eleven cities tour/race) and the "11-Merentocht" (eleven lakes tour) have restricted entry. You have to be a member (limited admittance now), respectively subscribe several months in advance.
winter 1995-1996
winter 1996-1997
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