The back of our house looks on to a rocky mountain slope. Now and then we hear the bird-like cries of an Arctic fox calling, a sound half way between a howl and a bark. My son loves it. He calls back to the fox and sometimes gets a reply. And every once in a …
Month: July 2018
This is a recipe for Greenlandic salad. Three of the five ingredients are meat – ‘mattak’ (whale fat and skin), seal meat, and seal intestines… That’s a salad. Greenlandic cuisine is heavily meat-based, for obvious reasons; there isn’t a lot that grows here. Berries – yes, some mushrooms (though these aren’t popular), and angelica, which …
Until a week before our journey, we hadn’t decided if we would sail north or south. In the end, the lure of Evighedsfjord – Eternity Fjord – drew us north. If our nebulous, go-where-the-wind-takes-us summer holiday had a destination, Evighedsfjord filled that fuzzy role, particularly fuzzy because we knew virtually nothing about it. “Beautiful,” “stunning,” …
Glaciers kind of freak me out. They’re beautiful, even awe-inspiring. But also freaky. Huge silent walls of frozen water that sit around doing nothing and then break unexpectedly and frighteningly with a sound like a gunshot. I’ve read too many stories of people who ended up in crevasses, and mostly didn’t get out again, to …