October is late in the year to be sailing. It’s cold. An icy rind is forming around the shore and a blanket of frost now rarely releases its grip on the land. We took the boat out for one of our last trips of the season. The bay we sailed into, only a short distance …
Month: October 2017
A Greenlandic taxi driver picked me up for the ten minute drive into town. On the way I gazed at the calm water and commented on how beautiful it was. He looked across the the bay to the colourful new apartments and related to me a story of their construction, around a decade ago. The …
Owning a boat is an unrivalled way of experiencing Greenland’s natural beauty. It’s also an effective and efficient way of getting into a great deal of trouble, as learned by our friends. What’s in the box?” J asked, heaving it onto Ane, the 18 foot Hansvik the three men shared. She was a nice little …
My family and I are outsiders. We speak English. Our eight year old son speaks fluent Danish; I speak reasonable Danish; my husband speaks and understands basic Danish. My son understands some, but does not speak, Greenlandic; my husband reads a little, and speaks basic Greenlandic; and I know virtually no Greenlandic, other than a …