Ice Skating: the Season Opens on the Slopes of Parque Araucano and Bustamante - La Tercera

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Skating on ice was, not so long ago, a recreation as close as it was distant. We saw it in the movies, cartoons and series as something typical of winter, a logical pastime when the weather is cold and the days grey. But in our Chilean reality there were not frozen lakes but bombarded squares of wells, wet slips and children with the snot hanging. Instead of white snowballs, the only thing to throw themselves were dark mud rocks, hard and dirty,…