Sometimes I wish we'd have a Minesotan winter here in the Netherlands, but without the snow. Snow actually ruins perfectly good ice.

Unfortunately for us, Dutch, the best of winter is already over. We had a week or so to skate and now the thaw has come and the ice is gone.

Ice-skating on the canals in the coutryside is the most amazing thing: the closest thing to flying without aid that I know of. But I guess in the United States with so few canals simply there is simply little space for skating. That is only one of the reasons I could never live there!