Greenland

 Well, we are sitting on top of the world, so to speak, moored off the coast of Greenland, surrounded by rocky moss covered islands, with a smattering of icebergs thrown in for effect.  

There is a joke that Greenland should have been called Iceland and Iceland should have been called Greenland….yup, no joke.  Greenland is not Green…with winter temps in the -90’s nothing grows outside, the moss probably is it.  This is the world’s  largest island, actually part of Denmark-those Viking roots are deep-with not a whole lot else going on….for like last 1,000 years.    Doubtful there will be a vote to become an independent country.  Our two stops here are tendered stops, with nothing more than a walking tour with your Viking provided speaker/hearing set up.  Boy, these folks have nailed their target market research.  Free tours with two hearing assisted microphones/headphones in every cabin.  

Eddie is a free man.  The medical center called at 8:00 AM to tell him his covid quarantine was complete, and they had removed the restrictions from his account and he was free to move about the ship, or off the ship if we were in port. They reminded him not to allow me to leave the room…like I am going to make a break for it…to Greenland.    While Eddie is not the type of click his heels, but he has not been in the cabin very much today.  In fact, he was more than happy to take the laundry to the launderette to do the last 4 days worth of clothes…he tried to ignore my first hand tutorial of the system, rolling his eyes like I was micromanaging him.  Nope, he came back and asked for a refresher on how to operate the dryers….he apparently did not have his hearing aides in, as most things came back wet and needed to be hung to dry…but I am not going to complain.  The laundry is done and I sat in bed reading my trashy novel and eating Swiss chocolate from the mini bar that is replenished twice a day.  Covid jail is not as bad as advertised…particularly when Eddie gets out 2 days before me.