Worth a Thousand Words

Another thing to do in rainy Qaqortoq is to seek out as many as possible the the stone carvings spread all over town as part of the Stone and Man art installation. We were told that there's another church in town located up on the hill. Gertrud Rasch's Church (Gertrud Rasks Kirke) is a white concrete Lutheran church. The church is named after Gertrud Rask, the wife of missionary Hans Egede. Across this church is a grocery store and naturally we stopped for a visit. I always find new flavors of Pringles of Lay's in other countries. The rest of the time, my husband and I walked around town snapping photos. Another grocery store. The large boot sculpture in Qaqortoq, Greenland, is an iconic red Inuit boot (or kamik in Greenlandic) that represents the local traditional hand-stitched culture. It is part of a town-wide open-air art exhibition called the "Stone & Man" project. We were the only cruise ship that day. On the ...