Special articles

Most articles on Sandalsand describe actual trips. Some entries have a different perspective, but are all related to travelling.

Abstracts of the world

This page provides abstracts and summaries from travelogues and other content on Sandalsand. So, let’s soar to new heights.

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Travelling

Sandalsand deals with travelling in a wide sense. Let’s have a look outside the window and see what we can find.

Writing and Publishing

Sandalsand is a combined travel “blog” and travel website. Find articles discussing various aspects of this practice.

Temptations

If you are looking for regular travelogues, head for the Destinations page. If you want to learn more about the world around us, and how Sandalsand deals with it, look into the pages in the Special articles menu: World Abstracts, Travelling and Writing and publishing. Did you know that Sandalsand is on YouTube?

Here are 3×3 random entries from the sections under the “Specials”.

Abstracts of the world

Another 10 European city breaks

Here are another 10 European city breaks. This is the third article in my series of European city breaks, the places you can fly or drive to in a few hours, offering great experiences for a couple of days or more.    Introduction My first 22 descriptions...

Nature: 8 Amazing Mountain Views

Have you been to these 8 amazing mountain views? If you take nature as the basis and exclude skyscrapers, constructed "skywalks" and such, we are left with a selection of natural viewpoints high up in the air.   This post is part of a series portraying the...

Religious Buildings (8) Houses for the deity or its premier representative on Earth

What do we mean by houses for the deity or its premier representative on Earth? This chapter in the series about religious buildings is a rather peculiar one. To be true, in many religions the deities do not need a house or dwelling, they are all around us. Indeed,...

Travelling

Hotels to remember – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

When you have travelled on and off for some years, you will have stayed at hotels that are easily forgotten. Other hotels have left their marks in your memories, you remember them for good or bad. Some hotels you are happy you did not stay in. I will start with the...

The Growing Puzzle of World Heritage “Locations”

UNESCO says there are 1,248 World Heritage properties. But look closer, and you’ll find they’re spread across at least 5,506 separate locations. That’s more than four times the headline figure. So, what’s going on? From simple to sprawling When the World Heritage List...

20 Ways to Slice Europe

How do you slice Europe based on prejudices? Here are 20 maps indicating the stereotypes which surround us in everyday life. What kind of prejudices do you think exist in, and about, Europe? How do you draw a map indicating the stereotypes? Well, a Bulgarian called...

Travel movies – One location

Are travel movies set in one location possible? We would generally view a travel movie as something that depicts movement from one place to another. This category is about something different. We are dealing with with existential consequences. The main characters are...

Great Travel Movies

Find 20 Great Travel Movies right here. There have been many attempts to assemble an ultimate list of great travel movies. I did a Google search, got some ideas, and elaborated on them. The result is a list of 20 great travel movies, highly subjective of course. This...

International backpacker routes

You are now going to study a map with all the major backpacker routes around the world, all major traveller hubs, and a series of secondary ones. I came across this impressive map a while ago and with the accept of its creator, Giles Smith...

Which passport is the best?

Of course, you are only eligible for a single passport, so the question may be paraphrased. Which citizenship is the most practical if you want to avoid border hassles?   My precious red passport Some people have dual citizenships and some may have no valid...

Travel movies – Lone man or woman

This is a list of travel movies, in particular about a lone man or woman off to discover the world and him-/herself. This article is part of a series of great travel movies. Find the other articles at the bottom. Here are eight travel movies from this rough category...

How do you pack for your trip?

Every person who has been on a trip has had to ask these two simple questions: What do I pack and what kind of luggage should I pack it in? Consequently, all the world's guidebooks and a lot of travel blogs are trying to provide good advice. ...

Great Travel Songs

Are there any great songs travel songs or songs about travelling? Yes, there are and I have compiled a playlist.  On my YouTube channel - Sandalfilm - I have a compilation of songs about travels and travelling. They deal with going from one place to another,...

Writing and publishing

Website Optimisation (SEO)

Website optimisation (SEO) to make it great for search engines is a long way to go. Over many years, savvy people have come up with advice on how to design web pages so that the search engines will show exactly your web page when a person searches for something....

Bucket list for 2019 and beyond

This is my bucket list for 2019. I am by the start of a new year presenting my bucket list for the coming year or years. The list is the manifestation of my dreams or concrete plans for future trips around the world. This article covers the bucket list for 2019 and...

Sandalsand is going secure and lean

What is secure and lean? The connected world has become a more dangerous place to live. I'm not talking about security as such although some might include that as well. I'm pointing to the fact that communication over the Internet has become more and more...

Do yourself a favor. Before it’s too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late. (Jhumpa Lahiri)

Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. (Jean Paul Richter)

The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. (Jon Krakauer)

They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things – I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca – I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak – I think my life’s ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There’s so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something. (Lisa Ann Sandell)

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