Winter Ice Skating In Holland

This astonishing film was actually made on the ice skates of Dutch photographer and film maker Kasper Bak in Lemmer, a town in the north of Holland.

Music: 'Ice Dance' by Paul Reeves

'Winter fun in Holland' by Erik Eti Smit

Photographer Erik Eti Smit said about his photo: "It is our national myth that in the olden days the canals were frozen from December till March, every winter. And when I was little, a sight such as this one was still quite common. We could skate almost every winter. Or maybe I just remember the winters when we had ice – and it certainly wasn't the whole winter."

And what do the Eskimos think about ice?

"You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks."

 

(Eskimo proverb)