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Subject: Re: Greenland Posted on: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:07:57 +0000 (UTC)

> It looks likely that I am going to have to take next year's
> summer break in the July/August period that I usually
> avoid as I don't like hot weather. As I am also going to
> be starting from Scandinavia the easy options (for which
> read cheaper) are what one guide book decribed as "those
> cold places that used to belong to Denmark" and the Baltics.
> I have managed to find some guide books in the library on
> the others in the list, but there was nothing on Greenland.
> Does any where on the land mass make a viable destination
> for a week (or even longer) in summer?
> Are there things to see, is it possible to travel around overland?
> Does anyone have any hints and tips?

There are Bradt guides to the Arctic, though the only region they've
devoted a whole book to is Svalbard.

If you start clicking on blobs in Google Earth you soon find quite
a lot of info.

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