Nomads i Norden 6--Greenland!

 And then there was the special dinner. Everyone gets an invitation to the Cook's Nook at some point during the cruise. Most ships do a Captain's Dinner, where you get to meet the Captain, but since the Resolution has an open bridge, we've met her many times, chatted with her in Swedish, and watched her directing her crew at some points.  So instead, the Chef gets a chance to shine. On this voyage (and maybe on others), the focus was on keeping a sustainable kitchen while preparing food for 100+ people.  They use EVERYTHING! Even carrot peels are crisped and turned into garnishes. Before every course, the sous chef came out and explained how various bits were made, or what unique and creative use they had found for something that might ordinarily become waste.  For example, the "caviar" is made with various juices and agar-agar, boiled, then dropped one drop at a time into cold oil, forming little balls of flavor.  Sheila thought to snap the menu this time, so h...

Nothing much happening today, just chugging down the coastline to get to Nuuk where we will disembark tomorrow, which will involve some fairly complex logistics. Then we'll have a quick city bus tour and a museum visit, followed by the charter flight to Keflavík, a night at the Marriott, and a flight home on Wednesday.  There was a chance for Zodiac cruising today, but it was 41F and raining slightly, so we abstained. So since we've kinda run out of icebergs, maybe it's time to show you the amazing food we were served. Yeah, yeah, it's a cruise ship, of course there was amazing food.  Let me remind you that this is also a scientific expedition ship, and I'm pretty sure this is not standard expedition fare. The food on the ship has been far above that on any other cruise ship we've been on, plus they go to a lot of effort to reduce food waste. There was a buffet the first night, and one other, but ordinarily you pre-order your evening meal.  Just making this mino...

Uummannaq is the farthest north we will go on this trip. Tomorrow we'll be heading back down toward Nuuk and flights to Iceland and then home. Lars' right knee does NOT like getting in and out of Zodiacs, and did not like yesterday's longish walk on the "flat" boardwalk, so he stayed on the ship while Sheila took the Zodiac into town.  Uummannaq is on an island, so pretty much everything is uphill, which his knee would not have appreciated.  We wandered around the town more or less on our own. Note that these do not indicate roads.  All of these towns are on other islands. There's a lovely church, but they were having a baptism so we could not go in. A sod house, and Santa's Mailbox! In case of tsunami caused by nearby glacier calving, go uphill! This young lady sang us several traditional Inuit songs. These look a lot like the carvings on the cliff in Qaqortoq. Traditional West Greenland women's outfits--sorry about the reflections! The beadwork remin...