‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions,’ they say. Greenland abounds in good intentions. Mine included. Last year, the Government of Greenland decided that English should be taught from year one in all schools, instead of from year four, as it was at that time. Great idea. English is the international language. English …
Month: May 2018
This picture shows where we anchored our boat on the weekend. Do you notice something odd? Our boat was apparently on land. It’s not because we ran aground. We were indeed afloat. It’s because the maps are wrong. The coastline of Greenland is probably one of the worst mapped coastlines in the world. The Danish …
*Walrus stew with Yorkshire pudding – a first? Today, when I did the following Google search: ‘How long should I boil walrus?’ I was reminded of some of the weird things that come up in conversation when you live in Greenland. At a high end pop-up restaurant in Nuuk recently (yes, there was one), …
Greenland was colonised by the Danish. This statement might seem neither here nor there to most, but the concept of colonialism is outright offensive to some Danes, particularly if referring to Greenland’s current status. It’s taken me a while to really accept this information, as it is so strange to me that people can reject …
*File photo of a crevasse It happened again. But this time it was worse. On April 6, a group of alpine touring skiers were descending a glacier not far from Maniitsoq on the west coast. It was a beautiful afternoon. And then the ground gave way. One of the party fell suddenly with the …