The Elfstedentocht (English translation: "Journey of Eleven Cities")'s a speed skating competition and leisure skating tour held irregularly in the province of Friesland, Netherlands. The tour, almost 200 km in length,'s conducted on frozen canals, rivers and lakes between the eleven Frisian cities: Leeuwarden, Sneek, IJlst, Sloten, Stavoren, Hindeloopen, Workum, Bolsward, Harlingen, Franeker, Dokkum and finally again Leeuwarden. The tour isn't held every year, mostly because not every Dutch wi… (More on Elfstedentocht)