Nieuwjaarsduik (new years' plunge)

When the new year has started, lots of people make do on their promises to start the year with a fresh slate and go for a nieuwjaarsduik. The premise is very simple: when you wake up after celebrating new years' eve, you go out with friends or family to the sea or to a lake and run/jump in. Originally just a means of entering the new year by doing something 'extreme, it's now an event that many people take part in all around the country.

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