Skating at Divoká Šárka

Remember the “Wild Woman” park that we visited in Autumn?  (Afternoon in Divoká Šárka).  Well, we were back there again this week-end to skate on the lake.

My office overlooks the Divoká Šárka park, and so every morning as I get out of the lifts, I take a moment to look out of the window and take in the view of the park.  Before we left for our ski trip over Christmas and New Year, I was watching the surface of the lake start to freeze, but the snow never fully settled on the surface.  Since we have been back, it has been constantly below –12 and the snow has formed a think blanket on the surface and evidence of skating has appeared (along with a few benches in the middle of the lake).  “When do you know that the ice is thick enough to skate on?”  Tomas’ very sound advice was “when others are skating and they have not fallen in…”.  Now was the time to dust off the skates and enjoy our first skate in Prague.

This is our street with the fresh snow fall lying all about:

Sarah and Amber took every opportunity to get towed:

Below, you can see my office building overlooking the park (we are on the top floor):

A view across the lake with everyone skating.  The snow did not make for easy skating and the well prepared came with shovels and spent lots of energy clearing patches of ice and making trails and paths across the lake:

Amber was a bit apprehensive at first, with memories of her last skate leading to a broken arm, but she could not sit on the edge for very long before wanting to join in the fun: