Like every year in December, an ice-skating rink was set up on the Place Masséna in Nice, right net to the Christmas market. Seeing people ice-skate in the middle of Nice is sufficiently unusual to merit inclusion in this blog; after all, Nice is famous as a Mediterranean resort town and not as a center for winter sports of any kind. Yes, there is an indoor skating rink, but ice, palm trees, and Zambonis (off camera to the right) don’t normally go together. At 11:14 yesterday morning, not too many people had ventured onto the slippery stuff, but the place had just opened and things were barely getting underway. Even so, I doubt that anyone showed up to rival the performance of a Scott Hamilton or Katarina Witt (links provided for those too young to know these names)...