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swirlie · 31-35
@swirlie how was it for you?
Where I went in Greenland was a very secluded west coastal town that is very close to Canada's Baffin Island, a town called 'Qaanaaq'. That town lies at the entrance to a meandering fiord and which for the most part is an ice-free zone during summer. Fortunately we went there in July. This place lies a short distance north of Thule Greenland.
I'm self-employed in the nautical marine business and I went to Qaanaaq to have a look at purchasing a heavily damaged private ocean yacht that had made it that far without sinking, after striking an ice berg somewhere along its journey and basically limping into the closest public port, which is just inside the fiord and slightly inland of Qaanaaq.
I went there with my two business partners and a girlfriend of mine from Sweden who's a propulsion engineer for Volvo Marine in Sweden. This was to be a fact-finding mission which would only last about one day at the most, possibly two if things looked hopeful.
As it turned out, we spent 5 nights there in total because Qaanaaq is like a small town with all the modern conveniences of life, including a swinging hot spot in the middle of town. There, you can disco-dance until 5am to all the top 40 hits from 1970 and do it beneath a giant rotating disco ball hanging from the ceiling that adds a special ambiance to the Club's energy.
Yes, there I was showing off all my pent-up disco moves on the octagonal wooden dance floor until I finally earned the "Dancing Queen of the Month" award, which included a picture of me in the Club's front window for 30 days to follow! Yes, I was truly humbled!
They have a supermarket there, a hardware store, post office, utilities commission, tour boat operator, large marina for large pleasure boats, plus hourly mini-bus service for those who desire to hang out on a glacier to sunbath in a concave-shaped ice cavern.
Those ice caverns are shaped like a cereal bowl and their concave shape directs all sunlight toward the center of the bowl as it reflects off the ice where it can get quite hot and create ice melt which is like bath water! This of course meant that us 3 girls in our party of 4 were wearing bikinis while hanging out in the bottom of the bowl with my lone male business partner... but only until the sun started to tilt and things cooled off pretty fast!
Then, we took the mini-bus back to town where we stayed in a 3 star hotel on the main street... which was clean, efficient and quiet with no bells or whistles, but had a great 24 hour restaurant.