Looking out the window

On Tuesdays and Thursdays helicopters flew from Uummannaq island to the airport at Qaarsut on the mainland (Nuussuaq Peninsula). The bright red livery of the Air Greenland chopper was a common and most welcome sight – even if you weren’t leaving the island, a helicopter meant mail!

But even if it didn’t bring mail, I never got tired of the helicopter flying past our window. The smell of jet fuel blowing up the mountain, however, was another matter.

Chris