The picture shows the exact valley in North East Greenland where Tony is headed for. He left yesterday late afternoon for Copenhagen, overnight then today for Svalbard (this all makes sense when you look at the world on a proper 3D spherical globe) from where he will catch a plane to North East Greenland when Greenland Air have removed their complaint of unfair competition. Tony and his three colleagues are travelling the last leg on a plane chartered by the Sirius Patrol and the Geological Survey. They will be catching geese (not quite sure which species – Brents of some sort at least) and returning to Denmark on August 1st.
Meanwhile Gwen’s class teacher, who has followed her since first year (which was really her second year), decided to retire early. Nothing at all to do with the bad behaviour of the class, she told us at a parent’s evening, after she had explained that she had run out of ideas of how to improve the boys’ behaviour. So Gwen is faced with a change of personnel in her last year at Nimtofte school. There was a gushing tribute in this week’s local paper to the teacher from her school colleagues.
In late August Gwen will be going for a week away to Bornholm with her classmates (and a couple of teachers in case you were wondering).
Meanwhile Anne has been reprising her career as Smashy and Nicey in the Absolutely Intercultural podcast since April, the latest of which is loosely based on her recent Lisbon trip and can be found here. This effort lies in the grey zone between work and play.