This edition of the Amsterdam Friday Night Skate was a special "Luilak" celebration. Luilak, on the Saturday before Whit Sunday (50 days after Easter), means "lazybones". Young people rouse their neighbors by generating all kinds of noise starting by banging pots and pans, yelling and whistling early in the morning. People who fail to get up and join the noisemakers are called Luilak. Part of the tradition is making drawings on (car) windows using blocks of soap. (hard to remove if you are in a hurry). This edition about 35 skaters from the Frankfurt Tuesday Night Skate joined the FNS. Making a lot of noice, we skated through the city. The start as ussual in the Vondelpark (east-side near the Film museum) at 8:30. The FNS doen't get police assistance, but instead volunteers called Blockers and Sweepers safe guard the skaters. In case of injuries, the Flying Nurses will help out. Marc, had designed a touristic itinerary for our German friends. Our first stop was on the roof top of Nemo, a technologie museum. To get there you have to climb/skate a huge stair case. From there we went down town accross Nieuwmarkt along the canals and narrow alleys. Unfortunatly for skaters there are a lot of cobble stones in this area. Our second stop was at Beursplein (our Wallstreet). |
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