Flying Over Greenland

 

While taking the flight back from Reykjavik to Newark yesterday, we flew over Greenland. It was bright and sunny, and generally optimal conditions for flying over a place like that.

Now, I did not actually have a window seat or anything. In fact, I had one of the middle seats, which was a bit of a drag. Those are my least favorite seats. 

But the guy who did have the window seat at some point opened it up. He had it closed almost for the entire trip, which is something that I never understood. Yet he opened it at the precise moment that we suddenly had a wonderful view over Greenland. Not sure if he saw it from the corner of his eye from someone else's window, or what, but he looked and then snapped a few pictures.

So I imposed and asked if he would not mind if I took some pictures, and he was agreeable. And so I snapped these pictures while we were flying over Greenland, maybe an hour and change or so after leaving Reykjavik on our IcelandAir flight.

It just looked spectacular. 

Just like that, there it was, Greenland! That famous, huge, isolated island that is an obvious landmark on world maps. The land which you almost never hear about otherwise, until of course Donald Trump came along and, suddenly, Greenland was regularly dominating world headlines because of Trump's "small ask," as he put it. 

Anyway, just flying over Greenland was very cool. That is more than most people will ever see of Greenland, which is difficult and often quite expensive to get to.

While I cannot say that I was there, I actually saw a part of it. And it was a part that most people will never see, the interior and snow-covered mountains.

Simply spectacular.

Below are the pictures which I took of the views from above Greenland.

Enjoy.