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This image is from a beach in Norway, but it could have been almost anywhere in the world.
World Heritage #1635 – Nice
Nice, the very popular town on the French Riviera, is part of the World Heritage List. UNESCO calls it a winter resort town, but Nice is in fact a...
World Heritage #1618 – Paseo del Prado
Let us go to Madrid and a heritage site with a very long name; Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro, a landscape of Arts and Sciences. The UNESCO World...
World Heritage #0689 – As-Salt
As-Salt is a Jordanian town which had its Golden Age in the years between the 1860's to the 1920's. UNESCO calls it a place of tolerance and...
The New World Heritage Sites of 2021
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee announced 34 new World Heritage Sites in 2021. The List now includes 1155 sites of a cultural, natural or mixed...
2021 is out, here is 2022
This article is a look back at Sandalsand's travels and articles in 2021. It was another exceptional year. There were no trips abroad, but in return...
My backlog is growing. How do I feel about that?
These should have been days of happiness. Instead I have for months been sorry for what is happening. I have been growing a huge backlog of...
2020 is out, here is 2021
This article is a look back at Sandalsand's travels and articles in 2020, and a hopeful glance into the new year. Every year is different, but I...
What’s with a name, for example Sandalsand?
The Sandalsand name came a bit by chance. In the summer of 2011, I gradually felt I wanted to start sharing my travels on the Internet. I looked...
Norwegian Scenic Routes – what and where?
The 18 Norwegian national scenic routes spread out from north to south, and invite us into a magnificent scenery with rich cultural experiences...
World Heritage #0352 – Rock Art of Alta
Go visit the Rock Art of Alta. More than 6,000 rock carvings and paintings have been discovered in the north of Norway. They date back 2,000-7,000...
World Heritage #1187 – Struve Geodetic Arc
Never heard of the Struve Geodetic Arc? Well, consider how big the Earth is and what shape it has. These were questions the Russian astronomer...
Pictures from Finland
This is a collection of Sandalsand's pictures from Finland. They are almost all from the capital of Helsinki. I will have to make it back to other...
World Heritage #1239 – Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
The Berlin Modernism Housing Estates are remarkable. The end of World War I called for drastic improvements in the living conditions of ordinary and...
Pictures from Germany
This is Sandalsand's collection of pictures from Germany. They are the result of trips to different parts of the country. If you look up my articles...
Bucket list for 2020 and beyond
No, I am not into cross stitching, so the featured image is a fake. The bucket list for 2020 of places I want to go is not a fake, and many of my...
2019 is out, here is 2020
When the fireworks are over and a new year has dawned, I publish an account of what happened in the previous year. This article is about 2019 in...
The New World Heritage Sites of 2019
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee held its 2019 annual meeting in Baku. It promoted 29 sites to the rank of World Heritage. The List now includes...
Postcards from North Korea
In a small red booklet I bought in North Korea, "Kim Jong Un Aphorisms 1", the young leader states that "art not related with the revolution, art...
The train to China from North Korea
Visitors to North Korea are often left with the choice between flying in and out of Pyongyang from Beijing, or take the train back to China. I...
The world’s most bizarre museum
For my North Korean hosts there was one purpose of this trip, namely to show a Western visitor how tremendously popular the ruling dynasty of the...
The road south from Pyongyang to the DMZ
We are in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. This is the story about the road south from Pyongyang to the DMZ on the border with the...
A dam and a cooperative farm in North Korea
Read about a visit to a dam and a model cooperative farm in North Korea. The dam borders the Yellow Sea and the cooperative farm is not far away....
Welcome to a new layout on Sandalsand
We're talking about a new layout on Sandalsand. Eight years have passed since the travel chronicles of Sandalsand emerged on the Web. It is six...
The Korean DMZ – There are always two sides of a border
The 248 km border between North Korea and South Korea has been labelled the world's most heavily guarded border. The Korean DMZ is a Demilitarised...
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. (David Rockefeller)
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. (Australian Aboriginal Proverb)
There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems. (Walter Lippmann)
A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place…. (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
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