France
A French Christmas, The Log, then and now
On Christmas day 1066 William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey. The English and French who were present cheered the new King so loudly that the clamour alarmed and panicked the French soldiers waiting…
My kilometre: the hidden riches of a small patch
Why Dutch and Belgian Farmers choose France
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Alaska
Arctic Shaman’s Seance
The snow fell quietly, covering the settlement in a thick white blanket. The shaman had told Okwana she’d recognize the singing hut by the large narwhal ivory which jutted up out of the roof; it whistled when the wind raced over the ice, he’d said. …
Kotzebue(ty) in Alaska
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It was the 4th
A Whale of a Time
Barrow Whaling Festival: the Nalukataq
The fog stretched out like a grey pall beneath us. Visibility was nil; we were as if wrapped in a blinding cocoon as our airplane roared, swung up then down then up again and do...
Whaling, ancient and modern
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Normandy Notebook
A French Christmas, The Log, then and now
On Christmas day 1066 William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey. The English and French who were present cheered the new King so loudly that the clamour alarmed and panicked the French soldiers waiting…
Song Thrush, Normandy
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My kilometre: the hidden riches of a small patch
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Iceland
Archangels and Angelica
A half crazed warrior Thorgeir and his poet brother Thormod were in the Icelandic mountains picking angelica for their soups, salads, and medicinal remedies. At a place known as Thorgeir’s ledge, near Hornstrandir in the Western Fjords where the …
Feast and Famine: Icelandic “Moss”
In Iceland, vast swathes of silvery moss spread over endless stretches of land which has been ripped up by volcanic shifts and eruptions. Unlike the chaotic, jagged basalt boulders and the ravines beneath, the moss lies like a smooth blanket, or ...
Iceland’s geothermal standard
After visiting the geothermal glasshouses in Flúðir, Iceland, and hearing about rising electricity costs despite all the waterfalls and geothermal hotspots in the ...
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