*Photography by Kim Hansen, Creative Commons Polar bears occassionally turn up around Nuuk. Maybe once every year or two. But they don’t belong here. Normally they would stay with the sea ice, and there is no sea ice this far south on the west coast. But changing times mean that the bears are being blown …
Month: March 2018
The car rejected reverse in any kind of cold weather. And in the winter it snowed on the inside. It was the worst car in Nuuk and it would have been ours. But, perhaps fortunately, it died shortly before our friends – the owners – bequeathed it to us on leaving Greenland. So we remain …
For someone who grew up in 30 degree plus summers, with winter holidays involving slushy snow and sleet, the plethora of forms of frozen whiteness in Greenland is fascinating. With two Greenlandic winters behind me, I am somewhat surprised to find that I look forward to them. Although it is a little heart-wrenching to watch …
*Cartoon by Buuarsikkut Soon there will be an election in Greenland. Elections are a time when Greenland, sometimes, makes it into the international media. Well, at least in the Kingdom of Denmark, which is Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. But what is surprising is that even in Denmark, which some (not me) might call Greenland’s …