Feelings of nervousness and intense expectations arise in me every time I am bound for Greenland. I leave my everyday workload and prepare myself for a completely different universe; a place with it’s own pace and agenda.

It’s hard to describe what triggers this state of euphoric, childlike joy within me. But the feeling of freedom and boundlessness grows steadily as I approach my destination.

The landscape appears. A frozen continent plays out under me. Azure ice packs cool as if in a queue, painting a glossy picture of timelessness and of nature’s colossal muscles.

I’m taken aback as the panorama meets me at the plane’s door. I prefer the fresh, crisp, cold air in my lungs. Greenland’s nature is surprisingly beautiful, vast and very tough. I feel as if I just took a cooling dip after a night of fever. I feel small and light and free; these emotions grow steadily within me. The smell of ice vibrates in my nostrils. Perception of time becomes diffused and indifferent.

Regardless of the season or location in Greenland, the landscape’s violent and implacable presence is constantly in front of you. Its nature has no extenuating circumstances, only a simple understanding of both the weather and geography. If the weather is bad, then you become “weatherproof”– this expression explains itself – stay where you are!

Weather conditions in Greenland are possibly one of the main things that make it very different to travel here compared with elsewhere in the world. It might also be an explanation for one’s perceptions being sharpened.

It is a way of life, which greatly helps to mark people living here: You take things as they comes, there is no changing it and so, you may as well get the best out of it. Here, we meet an infectious, stress free environment with people that have a genuine interest in others.

Here the distance between laughter and tears is short. Feelings are expressed spontaneously; laughter has a lot of space.

In Greenland, transportation from one place to another is often a cumbersome and time-consuming affair.

There are no logistics as we know them in most other places in the world, with roads that allow cars to zip through the countryside at high speed. Few people have cars, most people have boats and Greenland’s busiest traffic takes place on the water.

For centuries people of Greenland predominantly lived by the sea. Traveling in Greenland is much more than just the experience of the great forces

of nature. It is also a wonderful journey in the gastronomic universe. Taste buds are stimulated. Local sheep and lamb that roam the country, have the mountain smells and taste, namely of the finest herbs. Or the freshly caught fish, whose flaky white meat tastes of sea and salt. Tastes and smells you never forget.

Musk ox meat is wild, dark and intense, spiced by a mountain diversity of herbs. Greenland is an unknown pantry of the most amazing resources. Like icing on the cake, the wild herbs and berries that are collected, can make their own fantastic tastes in food and life itself.