Shuffling in my warm sleeping bag, I wondered who had slept on this small wooden bed before me. Who had seen out dark, cold winters in this one small room, cramped in here with a fellow hunter? What were their stories when this was their home? Now it was my home for the night – …
Month: October 2018
At an industry trade show, a Canadian salesman tried to convince me of the benefits of small portable nuclear reactors for power generation in Greenland. I narrowly avoided breaking into laughter, but failed to avoid a broad smile. Yes, Greenland’s population is scattered over many small, remote communities, which are potentially suited to such technology. …
Camping with polar bears makes me nervous. So I was nervous a lot in my three weeks camping and working in the northeast Greenland National Park this summer. And although I didn’t see a bear, I saw plenty of enormous footprints in the snow, and others in our group did see bears – a bear …
As a non-Dane, I need a work permit for me and my family to live in Greenland. When I applied, I was told the process would take about two months. Two and a half months later we had packed down our house, reorganised our lives, and were on a plane to Denmark, but our permits …
Apparently our house has good feng shui. The front windows look to sea and the back windows onto this mountain. I don’t know anything about feng sui, but I like the views, particularly of our mountain. In the early summer it’s a wall of rock, in mid summer people wander over its green slope collecting …