Category: Culture
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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Fast car, slow car, no car
“We should get a car,” said my son, looking out the window at the morning snow falling on the dark, lamp-lit street. “Why?”…
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Lost in other worlds
I have always felt a reverence for libraries. As a child, a favourite outing was the weekly visit to the local public library….
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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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Old Man and the Sea
It was a lot of meat. I had stopped by the gate leading down to the pier to look at the large plastic…
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Together alone
Greenland is the least densely populated country in the world. Even when you subtract the inland ice, which accounts for about 80% of…
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“Still want to live here?”
Tiny, idyllic-looking settlements are sparsely scattered along the coast and fjords of west Greenland. They’re beautiful, but there’s not much work. One of…
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Greenlandic surprises
The surprises one meets in Greenland might be out of the ordinary, but the responses one becomes accustomed to are perhaps even more…
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