Amazing! Snow in Holland , and lots of it!

Leading into the weekend, we had some snow. Unusual about it: the temps were actually be low freezing, so it remained on the ground.
I started out doing some skating (and much more crahsing) on 4-5cm snow over asphalt, just where it seemed to have piled up a bit due to wind vorteces. This marked the first skiing I did on home soil, actually on the way to work.
Friday we got some more, and I cashed some more, although at times I was skating just fine, albeit carefully to not scrape pavement too often.
Saturday, I took the train to some hilly forrests (Kaapse Bossen) reported to have good XC skiing snow. They didn't, even after additional snow. At least, for the skating I do. Messy trails. Just the wheel chair accessible walking route (as tame as it gets in hilly forrest) offered pretty reliable snow cover, and relatively few crashes from hitting the soil underneith. A bit of a let down, for hours at -8C.

Then, Sunday. Great snow coming down. I only went out the afternoon, to a recreational area I know well from having grown up nearby, and cycling the lame trails there a lot. A hellish half-hour bike ride to get there, this country is just not set up for 8-10" dumps during daylight.
There was TOO MUCH snow for decent skiing. One with forrest side path, where people at times walk over, I got down to being decently skiable after hours, by the time I was too tired to really take advantage and work on my technique.
At night I went out again, a little park near my house. I left the house, DOWNTOWN Rotterdam, ON SKIS. I skied to the park quite easily. Crazy fast side walk conditions. I got the same at the park. The kids having Christmas holiday ensured lots of sleighing action had taken place during daylight. The little (non-Dutch people wouldn't npotice them) hills were in tip-top condition this time. I found myself skating at full power, just like in Austria or Switzerland on the best of groomed trails. A wide cycle path transversing the park lined with street light was great for practicing straight line skiing. Not one crash from suddenly haltin skis this time. Skiing in Holland!
When I could no more, I added about another hour of catching breath and skiing some more. Words do not descibe it.
Monday after work, I went to the park again, again on skis out of the door.
Conditions were slower it seemed, but cover was still good or better. A bit too loose again even, as we had been blessed with a bit more snowfall still. I didn't manage more than 1.5 hours or so, I was just BEAT from the 2 days before. Too beat to get proper sleep even.
Thurday I didn't ski although surely conditions would have been OK. Wednesday markt the start of my 10-day leave, but I'm at home, trying to get rested.

I'm torn between booking a flight for tomorrow to go to the snow, and just getting a break from it. I may have gotten an overload of skiing, and don't want to be put off by it. I also have a week booked for the last week of January.

Gear :
I did most of the skiing on my Atomic Pro Skate skis. Sounds fancy, but really they are the cheapest skate skis Atomic offered in 2007-2008 or so. I got them at an eBay auction for a joke. The matching Pilot bindings cost me the same, to give you an idea.
Slightly wider than the fanicer Atomic I've got, and 190cm for the largest size vs. 192cm. The base is of lower quality, and for the better. Because the first attemps to ski, wrecked the base beyond repair. Yet, the skiing remained acceptable, to my surprise. Only on really nice snow, my Atomic Race Skates seemed to be a tad nicer/faster.
Somehow, the Pro's seem to be really natural feeling. Taking turns feels easy. Or maybe my technique and guts have improved since I last skied earlier this year.
Anyway, I love(d) these skis. They are wrecked, although they still "ski". I think I'm going to try and fine more of them. As I get better at skiing, this pair may still have a purpose for the increasingly stupid skiing I might do.
Perhaps I just got lucky to get a pair of skis perfectly tuned to my (over)weight, but I'm going to try and find more of them. Something about dirt cheap skis that work...