I suppose you can’t come to Canada in the winter months and not go skating at some point, right? So today I put on a pair of skates and took to the rink just across from Porte Saint-Jean in Quebec City.

While the locals circled the rink gracefully, it wasn’t difficult for anyone to tell that I was a complete novice. I took a few tumbles here and there, but managed to escape serious injury and even completed a few rather slow and tentative laps in the end.

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