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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Anna Richards

Greenland is notoriously expensive. I tried to visit on a shoestring

Greenland is arguably the least green place I’ve ever visited, although it’s certainly not lacking in colour. Houses are painted London bus red, canary yellow and fuschia.

A sea of ice spilling out of the Ilulissat Icefjord, the largest icefjord in the world, is so blindingly clean-looking that it would make my meticulous mother-in-law weep for joy. Then there are the blues: deep midnight in the ocean and electric dragonfly blue where crevasses have formed on the icebergs.

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