Leisure

This page contains links related to (results of) our personal hobbies and interests.

Photography

A 1974 Nikkormat still produces perfect pictures. Hope you like our use of it:

Poppies in our garden
Tulips across the street
Winter in Holland

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Skating

Many canals and (wide) ditches are used for skating whenever it is cold enough to freeze them over (not every winter: January temperatures in the Netherlands are mostly around zero Celsius, with extremes of +10 to −20). Every few years the ice is strong enough for touring the countryside on skates. Typical distances are 10–30 kilometers, but ardent skaters may go for longer trips, up to the Elfstedentocht, which takes the participants on a 200km tour of the 11 Cities of Friesland Province.

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