Klunen: my new favourite skating word
It's March. It's still cold and snowy. It has been an amazing winter for skating, but I am ready for spring. I'm planning to be back at Greenwood Park this Sunday afternoon, for what I think will be the last Great Skate of the season. Meanwhile, here are some things I have discovered during my Great Skate Project: The Greatest Skating Race My friend Skye recommended this lovely story by Louise Borden to me. It's about a young boy in the Netherlands named Piet. He dreams of skating in the Elfstedentocht , a legendary 200km skating event that's held whenever the winter is cold enough. But it's 1941, and Piet faces a different challenge: to help two of his schoolfriends escape across the border to Brugges by skating along the canals. "Klunen" The Greatest Skating Race includes vocabulary notes, and this is one of the new words I learned. "Klunen" is a Flemish word meaning "to walk on land on skates." You might say that ...