Greenland from the Outside In

Safety Last

Photo: Sermersooq Council For some months now, the local authorities have been working on demolishing a rocky hill, crushing down the rocks into…

Seal soup and strategic planning

Greenlandic food is an acquired taste. Our son discovered this the hard way at kindergarten. Like most Greenlandic kindergartens, his had a kitchen…

Seal heads and shotguns – Greenlandic facebook

Everything in Greenland happens on Facebook. Everything. Political debate, school notifications, lost and found, business advertising, property rentals, private buying and selling. There…

We bought our gun on Facebook, from a policeman

Greenland has a strong hunting culture and, as such, high gun ownership. In the late summer, Greenlanders head for the fjords to hunt…

Arctic gardening

Greenland is cold. You probably know that. One consequence is that almost all fruit and vegetables are shipped from Denmark. This means you…

Right the first time

I had to laugh when I got this shopping bag from a supermarket in Finland. Not because of the weird language or any…

Tupilak

*Photograph taken at Nuuk Art Museum, www.nuukkunstmuseum.gl If you visit a gift shop in Greenland you are likely to find tupilaks – small…

When the wind blows

*Photo by Daniel Herwartz When the wind blows in Greenland, you know about it. The winter storms are terrific. ‘Terrific’ in that they…

“We ate the inside!”

There are many Faroese folk who live in Greenland and our family are friends with some of these lovely people. The Faroese have…