Everywhere you look in the Netherlands right now, people are ice skating. I walked by my local hardware store and people are standing outside looking in the store room window at various types of ice skates that are for sale. Every now and then I pass a sign on my street that reads the Dutch equivalent of "ice skate sharpening here". After over a decade of not having cold enough temperatures for good ice, skating fever has arrived.

Today, for the first time in 13 years, the Dutch Natural Ice Skating Championship took place. Here, watch the last lap for yourself: