2005-05-11 Skatefresh Nederland

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:11:58 +0200

A Dutch windmill!
Be careful! Skaters
Jan (NL) facing away, Yvonne (D), Kit (GB), Stefan (CH), Gerard (NL) and Anja (NL). Christian (D) peeking.
A green house, not a greenhouse. :-)
Naked windmill.
A little 'un!
Walkers!
Great eagle roof top decoration.
Horsies!
Ivy house.
Martine catches the photographer's eye!
The hand operated chain link ferry at Molletjesveer.
Canal sailing ship.
Olga took this pic of me while we waited.
Hans turns the handle while Anja looks on!
You have to stand on the clutch!
Stefan (CH) and Group 5s guide, Jan.
An old WWII bunker holds guard over som cows.
Luckily the cat was not black!
One of many snack stops.
Yukio (JP) has his back to the camera, Oleg (Russia) in the yellow jacket relax at a snack stop.
A vegetable garden at 20 km/h.
Nice hedges!
Crossing a barbecue!
Actually one can just walk over it, the wheels fit nicely in between the rolled steel bars.
Tired skaters... Nancy from Belgium in the middle.
Irina and Olga from St. Petersburg, Kit from London.
Don't believe it! He was in the fast group.
Getting ready to go in the morning!
German group hug! They were also good at shuffling out the way as a group! :-)
Wout (NL) briefs us for the day.
There are some skaters there somewhere...
Gerard (NL) grins!
Kit (GB), Anneke (?) (D), Yvonne (D), Bianca (D) and Christian (D).
Bianca helping Yvonne.
Waiting for the bridge to close.
A faster team waiting.
Skaters!
Melody (USA), Marina and Olga (Russia) at the train station.
Gilded crests.
Why I love Holland: friends playing on skates in the grass.
Tatiana so happy after a fall, just torn pants and a scratch on her thumb!
Christian (D) and Erwin (NL) roll past slowly.
Anja (NL), Maritza (Venezuela!) on 100 mm wheels and Gerrard (NL).
Dirk (NL), Jan the guide takes a breather while Tatiana (Russia) looks on.
Maritza is my favorite bitch on wheels!
Wout leads the daily morning sermon.
Erwin's patience with Maritza finally paid off, he got a SkateFresh award! :-)
Erwin, a Rotterdam street skater. They don't come more hardcore than that!
16 kg of music magic! Thanks man!
Wout's group.
Yes mum, we did wash our hands!
Half of Europe in this pic!
A happy bunch.
Chris (NL), Anneke (?) (D). Anja (NL) says hi to mom&dad, she is ok!
Jan and Bianca in a hurry after Bianca getting stoned. Or was that getting a wheel jammed by a stone? Both can happen in the Netherlands... :-)
Martine (NL) and Bianca (D).
Super smooth steel plate! And my Salomon Vitesse of course.
Dunno why, but Melody has this strange attraction to metal posts! Must be her magnetic personality!
Nice decorations, clock was a few hours slow though.
Anja being mugged in a sleazy street somewhere...
Cobblestones make us apprehensive! ? (D).
Anneke (?) (D) is relaxed though.
Jan and Martine wondering if anybody will notice them popping in for a drink.
Martine, my favorite Dutch skating girl. :-)
Swans chilling out in a canal.
Canal barge in Amsterdam.
Erwin and Maritza couldn't wait long enough to put up their tent. I don't want to think about what they need electricity for... :-)
Vondelpark before the FNS!
Food! Anneke (NL) in the foreground.
Haarlem city square full of skaters!
Laurentius blesses skaters in Haarlem.
Laurentius holding the Holy Brake Pad.
Oleg from St. Petersburg skating with a glass of beer on cobblestones. He wasn't that stable... :-)
Relaxing in the sun.
The SkateFresh team! Bicycle-Bianca & Wouter the minibus driver are missing though. Thanks to you all!
Yvonne (D) is happy, only 10 km more!
Martine and our truck driver are a tad surprised by skater ovations.
Oleg wins a friendship award!
Peter, Wout, Astrid and Bart behind.
Martin and Peter start a wave!
Organized baggage handling.
No, there isn't place for everybody in the back of the truck! There's only 10 km left, go skate!
Lotsa skaters!
German group and Marc.
Happy too at just 10 km left!
Jak (NL). Yvonne, Anke and Bianca (all D) smiling near the end, no more nagging to draft each other!
Christian came late, and then Yvonne smiled!
Relax Anke, the photo shoot is over!
Waitng for something...
Peter has an idea why...
Hup, hup! Across the intersection NOW!
Anke, Bianca, Erwin and Peter.
Edda and Antje from Germany. I saw Antje skate once, she had a nice long glide skating style.
My gear.
Maritza and Erwin, my kind Rotterdam hosts, with yours truely.
Very kind of SkateFresh!

Rollers.no

2005-05-11 Skatefresh Nederland