Canal ice helps Dutch rediscover national identity

Re:Canal ice helps Dutch rediscover national identity by furyg3 on Saturday January 17, 2009 @12:33PM (#438284)

Will there be another cold snap to freeze the canals of the Eleven Cities Tour? "Not in the coming weeks," Geurts said. "At the earliest, in February."

I'm crossing my fingers. During this last freeze I was at home with my sick girlfriend, watching all the news reports of people skating on the big canals. Here in Amsterdam there wasn't enough ice to skate on the canals, so I'd have to head north which wouldn't have been very nice :(

Would have been nice to see all the Dutchies out in skates, everyone seemed so happy about it. Plus, this poor Californian has never skated on natural ice!

Any other hackers in Holland?

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Re:Canal ice helps Dutch rediscover national identity by delano on Saturday January 17, 2009 @03:51PM (#438552)

I'm in Limburg for the next couple weeks.

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Re:Canal ice helps Dutch rediscover national identity by pacoaw on Saturday January 17, 2009 @03:23PM (#438519)

I'm still waiting till "It giet oan"...

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Re:Canal ice helps Dutch rediscover national identity by jrnkntl on Saturday January 17, 2009 @05:54PM (#438710)

Present! :) Utrecht it is. Don't know why this is on the main page though.

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Re:Canal ice helps Dutch rediscover national identity by spazmaster on Saturday January 17, 2009 @01:55PM (#438394)

sure! where you at? I'm in Arnhem working in Amsterdam.

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Re:Canal ice helps Dutch rediscover national identity by furyg3 on Saturday January 17, 2009 @04:27PM (#438594)

Ahh, I was actually just in Arnhem a few weeks ago, cute little town.

I'm living in A'dam finishing up a Masters (why did I go back to school?!), then I have to decide if I'm going to get involved in another IT project or try and save the world.

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