November is a rather depressing month over here in Norway. But occasionally, a nice long cold spell comes along and freezes the lakes to create vast expanses of ice for skating. 

I’m very happy to report that this November had a few precious days of beautiful black ice to enjoy:

Another fun thing to do on a large frozen lake is to sign your name using a GPS fitness tracker like Strava. It took me 1.5 km of back and forth skating to sign my first lake 🙂 I think this is actually an improvement on my usual handwriting!

Have a fun weekend!