‘It’s just cool. You can go fast and you see the world from a slightly different perspective’ (Picture: EPA)

If you think the UK has been cold this week – try visiting Amsterdam.

But instead of wrapping up and staying inside, residents are taking to the canals. On ice skates.

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Yes, locals have been spotted gliding past tourists who slithered across the ice to take selfies in the city.

One woman even took her dog for a walk along the frozen canal – as you do.


‘It’s just cool. You can go fast and you see the world from a slightly different perspective’, skater Noldus Reijnders said as he sat on a boat to catch his breath.

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Instead of wrapping up and staying inside, residents are taking to the canals. One ice skates. (Picture: Reuters)

People are braving the ice (Picture: EPA)

Some people wear ice picks around their neck incase they fall through (Picture: EPA)

Despite the measures to help ice develop, there were still some holes and parts of the canal weren’t frozen at all.



Reijnders was wearing a special red ice pick around his neck, just in case.

It’s the first time the canals have frozen over in six years (Picture: Reuters)

A skater helps a child that has fallen on the ice (Picture: EPA)

People were pictured skating on the Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht canals (Picture: EPA)

‘If you sink through the ice – and there are still a few dangerous places – you can pull yourself out,’ he said.

It is the first time in the last six years that the Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht canals froze enough to support the weight of humans.