Nostalgia..

I miss this..:(

Started skating on the canals where I was born, in Leiden, when I was six, with oldfashioned wood and steel skates that ya tied round your boots, bit like these (only they're ancient but ya get the idea) http://img1.etsystatic.com/il_fullxfull.291194289.jpg, I fell on my ass a lot at first. Then I got a pair of hockey skates when I got better at it http://www.birminghamiceskating.co.uk/Images/Ice-Skates/ccm-pro-tacks-ice-hockey-skates-opt.jpg, and finally a pair of Norse skates like the ones they use in races, speed skating http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00vCNEaAQRJcug/Speed-Ice-Hockey-Skate.jpg, you can really fly on those but it takes a little longer to stop. Once the ice was thick enough on the canals, everybody got out there, and people set up stalls on the ice selling hot chocolate and doughnuts and stuff. Some winters you could skate on the roads on hard packed snow. We used to get hold of car bumpers and hitch a ride. What do you miss from your childhood?