Valley of the Flowers....tough walking on gravel road in rain with hills

Trip to South Greenland via Copenhagen. Got caught up on the way back with the terrorist plot to blow up planes from the UK, but didn't have any problem going through Heathrow, London.
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Carolyn Longworth (clongworth) > Finally getting to the sheep farming village of Tassiusaq. A nice Inuit lady whose family have been sheep farming here for many years showed us traditional crafts...including lots of beadwork

Carolyn Longworth (clongworth) > Sheep farm

Carolyn Longworth (clongworth) > Greenland, 2006 photo

Carolyn Longworth (clongworth) > Phew....finally back from the trek....we cheated though and took a car back since it was rainy and muddy

Carolyn Longworth (clongworth) > Wednesday we were supposed to fly out to Narsaq but all flights cancelled. Lots of people were stranded, including a nice English marathon runner and a group of Austrian hunks who were heading to hike across the ice cap.

Carolyn Longworth (clongworth) > Instead of the helicopter trip, we hiked through the valley of the hospital, the only vestige of the US base that was here during WW2 and the Korean War. The chimney from the hospital

Valley of the Flowers....tough walking on gravel road in rain with hills

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