Category: Bureaucracy
Nothing like what I expected
It was a still day, cold and quiet, as I walked alone over rocks and snow. My heavy boots crunched through the crisp…
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Locked inside an icy world
The heavy afternoon sky reflected the lead-coloured sea. But nothing could dampen the glow of winter whiteness that blanketed everything – hills, houses,…
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Touching seals
Trudging across the sea ice – three geologists, returning from a day’s work amongst iced-in islands in east Antarctica – we spotted a…
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Should learning Greenlandic be required?
Two nights a week, I took the bus an hour across Copenhagen to the school where Danish classes were held. I arrived late…
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“Get out of our area!”
The north side of the Nuuk peninsula, out past the airport, used to be a wild place of rocky hills and valleys sloping…
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Where have you been?
I had all but forgotten that I was expecting a new credit card from Australia. So when I finally received it, I looked…
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Separation of church and state?
Our second son was born in Nuuk three weeks ago. At the hospital, I was given a document stating his social security number…
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Political change and a whiff of dried fish
In Greenland, the winds of political change usually come with a whiff of dried fish or mattak. So it was last week when…
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