I was flicking through Air Greenland’s in-flight magazine – Suluk – when I saw an interview with Greenlandic singer Julie Berthelsen, who lives in Denmark. She was asked, “What is the biggest difference between Greenland and Denmark?” Her answer was,“Everything.” The word stuck in my brain as I disembarked and negotiated my way through Copenhagen …
Month: September 2019
The whop whop whop of the helicopter blades grew in the distance. We’d been slumped, resting on the packed boxes, waiting for that familiar sound, and now we leapt into action as the red machine curved into view around the low hills. I stood arms skyward, back to the wind, directing the pilot to a …
As we sail toward Nuuk, the boat crouches in the low space beneath the hovering fog and the mirrored sea, the still water stretching seaward like a sheet of grey metal. The white gates of the cemetary appear on a sloping shore, announcing the approaching town. And stretching out from the gates, two white fences …
Imagine you lost your phone seven hundred kilometres from home on an isolated beach reachable only by sea? What do you reckon your chances of getting it back would be? In Greenland, they seem to be better than you would think. The other week, my husband was working in a field camp in Disko Bay, …