Greenland
Got up this morning to clouds, and it was hard to differentiate the land from the clouds, but as the sun came out and the haze burned off the landscape was easier to see.
Claire sent me up to deck 12 to see an iceberg, but it was a embryonic one. Breakfast was (Eggs Benedict) poached eggs which I had to send back, I hated that but the eggs were not even remotely runny. I would have never gotten that choked down. Regardless they were good once I had a new batch.
We tendered into the village today Qaqortog. We chose not to do any sort of excursion here as the village is so small and there really was not much to do. We wandered ( I was terribly surprised later that we actually put on. 8,000 steps) around, looked in a few souvenir stores/ stalls, but everything is terribly expensive.
I really loved the rock carving that is an effort to beautify the village.
The houses are all colored and originally they signified the profession of the person living in the house. Yellow house/building indicated Medical , Blue indicates fisherman, (I guess my family house wold have to be blue) and churches and schools are red. It is not a requirement any longer, so we say cranberry, peach, orange, and purple today. Also I learned today the the government owns all the land and folks have a “right “ to live on it. They can and do on their homes, but just not the property underneath. We thought we were going to get a coffee but it when it finally opened only sold liquor.
So no contributing to the economy. The weather was lovely, I started out with long sleeved tee, a sweater, and both parts of my coat and ended up with the coat totally off.
We came back and water colored for a while.
Dinner was good and we are resting up for a late night to hopefully see the Northern Lights which have eluded us so far.
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