Five things I Found Out About Greenland On Our Holidays: Thing 1. Greenland Is A Mystery To Most People
fig(i) Greenland yesterdayI was surprised by this. My mother isn’t a stupid lady by any means but when I told here where we were off too even she asked:
“Is it a country?”
I didn’t really like the tone of my voice and swottishly explaining that since it was the biggest island ON THE PLANET it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Greenland is in fact a country.
It wasn’t only her, the bank asked exactly the same question when I called to tell them I was going on holiday. When told it was a country they came back with:
“Where is it then, in Asia innit?”
If you think I’m some sort of sad sack that phones the bank for a chat when I’m lonely you are mostly wrong.
It’s out of necessity as experience has taught me they will freeze my debit card after the minutest deviation from usual spending patterns. They froze it recently because I bought a 59p App from the App store.
“Well sir you have to remember a small purchase like that can be an indication that a bigger fraudulent purchase is about to be made”
Buying a burger in Greenland (a place they’re not even sure is a country) without some sort of forewarning would be like waving a red rag to a bull. A very stupid and capricious bull at that. So I gave them a call.
To be fair to both my mum and the bank I didn’t know very much about Greenland beyond it being a country and not being in Asia. The only thing I knew was the answer to the tricksy pub quiz question of “What is the capital of Greenland?”, the answer being Copenhagen since Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Except it actually turns out that hasn’t been true for years. Nuuk is now Greenland’s capital city. Doh! Curse you and your lies Pub Quiz!
So well done, you actually now know more about Greenland than either Suzey or I did before embarking on a six day holiday there.
Tune in next time for Thing the 2nd in the list of five things I found out about Greenland on my Holidays: Why Stealing A Car In Greenland Is The Stupidest Crime You Could Ever Choose To Commit
There’s also a Flick Gallery of the entire trip you can see here