It’s easy to get excited about new things, however mundane, when one lives in a small place, even if that small place happens to be the capital city and is locally regarded as a metropolis with its bustling population of 17,000. So it was one morning this week when, as the bus approached our stop, …
Month: February 2020
I was at a cafemik this week – coffee and cake at a friend’s house, to celebrate a birthday. There were a lot of people and my husband and I sat down with a group, some of whom we knew, some we didn’t. I got chatting to a woman I hadn’t met before. She asked …
Geological mapping hasn’t really changed very much in the hundred and fifty odd years that geologists have been producing maps in earnest. Sixteen years ago, the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland published the last remaining 1:500,000 scale geological map of Greenland. It was a milestone marking the culmination of more than fifty years of …
*Another startled Greenlandic resident – a tupilak from the Nuuk Art Museum One meets diverse and unexpected people in Greenland at diverse and unexpected times. Last summer, a friend invited my husband, son and I over for coffee and cake one Sunday afternoon. She had some foreign visitors, officials of some kind from the UK …