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Rendezvous at Nuuk



Lands' End's Mike Endres installs a new on-board computer, then takes the tiller

 

Shortly before Snorri left Nuuk to begin her voyage north, one of her two on-board computers came down with a bad case of the whim-whams. The only way to replace it in time was to ask Lands' End computer whiz Mike Endres to bring a new one and set it up on the spot. Mike's back home now, with pictures of Greenland's capital city. Thought you'd enjoy a peek.



Benedikte Thorsteinsson, Viking 2000 Project Manager at Greenland Tourism (third from left) invites the crew to her home for a meal of seal and seal soup



Doug Cabot (right) and the rest of the crew don Viking garb for Nuuk's send-off party on the day of departure




Vikings en route to the party

Costumes of two cultures collide - Greenlanders leaving church after a confirmation ceremony meet fierce-looking Norsemen

 








Suburban Nuuk

Party fare - whale blubber, dried shrimp, reindeer and haddock, smoked reindeer sandwiches




Catch of the day at Nuuk's
open-air meat and fish market


The apartment building at right is said to house close to 900 people - about one percent of Greenland's entire population

 


  Part of the "old town" - the original 1729 settlement is now a tourist center





A tour ship visits Nuuk

 



Firefighter Mike Endres swaps stories with
Knud Petersen, Nuuk's fire chief




Part of Nuuk's fleet of twelve trucks, two boats, snowmobiles, etc.

 



Display of authentic Inuit outfits at Nuuk's museum


Post office box holds thousands of letters to Santa - part of a small Christmas industry

 



Picture-perfect Greenlandic girls leaving a photo studio

 

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