Fishing in Greenland is like, well, shooting fish in a barrel. I grew up spending my Christmas holidays in Australia, on the beach with my family, getting sunburnt, building and destroying sand castles, filling buckets with soldier crabs. Fishing was an integral part of those holidays. It was a serious business, overseen by the menfolk. …
Month: September 2017
*Photograph by Elis Hoffman. There is a brief moment in the early Greenlandic summer when a confluence of factors make it seem that the very essence of living is presented for your personal pleasure. The weather is warm enough to relax outside, albeit perhaps not in your Hawaian shirt. The snow has, largely, melted. The …
Photo: Sermersooq Council For some months now, the local authorities have been working on demolishing a rocky hill, crushing down the rocks into various sizes to use in the construction of the new harbour in Nuuk. It’s an ambitious and exciting project, changing the face of the town, and creating new infrastructure for a more …
Greenlandic food is an acquired taste. Our son discovered this the hard way at kindergarten. Like most Greenlandic kindergartens, his had a kitchen with a full time cook, a wiry, severe Greenlandic woman, not to be messed with. She dished up all sorts of Greenlandic fare including seal soup, fish, sea birds. For a time …