Ice Skating

[ewx]

Becky and I went skating at Cambridge On Ice, the temporary ice rink on Parker's Piece. I've not been skating for many years but I think I got back to about my usual level of competence fairly quickly.

It's quite small and pretty crowded; unlike larger rinks there wasn't much scope for escaping to the middle to avoid slow wobbly people (once I'd stopped being slow and wobbly myself l-) unless you're prepared to skate in very small circles. However I didn't actually collide with anyone (or fall over for any other reason for that matter).

It's £8.95 for an adult to get in and that gets you an hour (but you have to be ready to go onto the rink on the hour - we turned up at ten to eight so that was fine, if you turned up at twenty past the hour you'd have rather a wait for the next slot). You can book online (ETA: but LNR points out this carries an outrageously expensive booking fee).

Comments

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

How are your legs feeling today? Not too tired out, I hope.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

They seem to be OK. You? (My left arm seems to be hurting a bit for some reason but I can't see how skating would do that.)

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

My arms have been feeling well-used for the past two days, but I think that was because karate training on Thursday featured lots of press-ups and fighting and not because I was flailing too much at the rink :-).

[lnr]

The online booking fee is a pretty extortionate 3 quid though! Do they charge that if you buy tickets at the rink?

[arnhem.livejournal.com]

Not when we went, no.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Yow, that I'd not spotted. (We just turned up and bought tickets at the box office, which didn't have that charge.)