“Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen,” sang Hans Christian Andersen about the 19th century town in the old film. And he didn’t even see the modern Danish design and the sleek metro, as we did - returning to…
Forget the modern city of Copenhagen for a moment. Let its sleek trains transport you some 800 years back in time and into the countryside. Yes, the coffee shops, markets, and housing of Helsingør and…
Greenland is supposed to be the snowy icy sister to Iceland. Its ice sheet covers 80% of its huge land surface! And only 50,000 people reside along thousands of kilometers of coastline. For sure, each…
Our destination, Disko Bay, was spectacular, but the ferry journey to it along Greenland’s western coast was also memorable. The Journey: Ferrying from village to village Sarfaq Ittuk Ferry cabin Our mobile, floating home for…
Though preceded by others for millennia in mastering the challenges of Greenland, the Inuit and Norse arrived a thousand years ago with very different aims. The Norsemen (Vikings) As the Sagas tell us, in 982 AD,…