Greenland

Greenland is the world’s largest island, so naturally my brother and I went there and brought back a few photographs. He had been grumbling since primary school that he wanted to visit one day, and in the end, why not? The result was surprisingly excellent: our Greenland expedition still sits very high in the imaginary ranking of trips that went unusually well. On a map Greenland looks like one enormous block of ice, but summer visitors discover plenty of the other colour promised by its name — Green+Land.

Greenland in summer

Summer is best described as the one week when the snow melts a little faster. The weather treated us suspiciously well: blue skies, the occasional tasteful cloud for photographic purposes, and temperatures around 8–10 °C. Even in these idyllic conditions there is one natural enemy: the polar mosquito. It is not especially bloodthirsty, but compared with its sneaky southern cousins it is much larger and far more annoying. So please do not be alarmed by the fashionable head nets in some of the photographs…