ALLMIGHTY: IN GRONINGEN PEOPLE ARE ICE SKATING THROUGH THE STREET
I open my weather app this morning and I'm shocked. In Groningen, Friesland, and Drenthe, people are ice skating through the fucking street. While it's 7 degrees in Amsterdam! Weather, what is happening? This is unfair!
I can become panically enthusiastic at the first snowflake in winter. And when it was predicted earlier that we would have a harsh winter, I couldn't help but be a little secretly happy. But what a disappointment, this fake winter. Until yesterday, it suddenly gets cold. I'm already pulling my sled out of the shed.
Ice skating enthusiasts have strapped on their skates in multiple places in the Netherlands, the streets are covered with ice, the kids don't have to go to school because of the cold, and voilà, a day of skating fun is born. Jealously, I scroll through my Twitter feed and see the coolest videos of people gliding past their front door on skates. Okay, there is still no talk of a severe frost period and the word Elfstedentocht hasn't been mentioned yet, but still: we are on the ice. Well, in a street. Goodness, this winter is finally starting to show some tough behavior.
1. When it freezes, that annoying rain suddenly turns into hey, pretty cool snowflakes.
2. Because we want to glide through the streets not just in Northern Netherlands, but all over the country. Hello snow, are you coming this way?
3. Really cold winters are becoming quite rare due to global warming. The generation after us might not even be able to talk about it anymore. So instead of complaining about the cold, we are going to enjoy more!
4. Because you don't always have to go to work during extreme frost. Or you can work comfortably from home.
5. Because there is nothing better than hot chocolate with whipped cream. And we have another excuse to watch Frozen seventeen more times.
6. “Snowball fights!” Jet immediately shouts. Oh, and snow angels. Duh.
7. As a consolation because we, sob, didn't have a white Christmas.
8. Because we all hope for a Willem-Alexander-and-Máxima moment on the ice. How romantic.
Written by Kiki Düren
