Last night, Solene, Edith, Jason, Paul & I went to Gorky Park to ice skate. The rink there is the biggest in Europe!! The ice is obviously man-made, but it's made to imitate ice that you'd find on a lake or a river, so it's not properly smooth & is left for longer periods of time before cleaning.
I'm not a good skater as I haven't been since a school trip a number of years ago, but once I got back into the swing of things it was easier. Solene & I were helped by two Russian gentlemen who were extremely fascinated with the fact that we were foreigners! By the end of the evening I was managing to skate pretty fast on my own - though I won't be entering any contests yet!
