Everything in Greenland happens on Facebook. Everything. Political debate, school notifications, lost and found, business advertising, property rentals, private buying and selling. There is a Facebook group for just about any organisation, business, hobby, or interest you could care to think of, the vast majority of which do not have a website. If you want …
Month: August 2017
Greenland has a strong hunting culture and, as such, high gun ownership. In the late summer, Greenlanders head for the fjords to hunt reindeer, ptarmigan, muskox, and, on the east coast particularly, polar bears, for which guns are also essential protection. Guns are carried for bear protection more so only in Arctic Canada and Svalbard. …
Greenland is cold. You probably know that. One consequence is that almost all fruit and vegetables are shipped from Denmark. This means you need to be careful making your selection at the supermarket. A single aubergine might cost you eight dollars. Although the range and quality is still probably better than you might expect, visiting …
I had to laugh when I got this shopping bag from a supermarket in Finland. Not because of the weird language or any of the other super weird stuff that makes Finland the special country it is. But because when I bought my shopping, I had a choice of this paper bag, or a range …
*Photograph taken at Nuuk Art Museum, www.nuukkunstmuseum.gl If you visit a gift shop in Greenland you are likely to find tupilaks – small bone or soapstone carvings of strange other-worldly creatures. As my son pointed out to me, these aren’t really tupilaks, they are only carvings of tupilaks. Tupilaks are something much more disturbing and …