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 above the planet.

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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

Nature: 4 Dramatic waterfalls

Get to know 4 dramatic waterfalls. I am exploring nature in terms of the classic elements of nature. This is a combined water and earth element. There is no waterfall unless you have a mountain or cliff from which the water could fall.   This post is part of a...

Nature: Air

This is the last part in my series of photo essays dealing with the classic four elements of nature. The fourth element is Air. It goes without saying that air is a tricky thing to photograph and visit. Air is usually not visible, yet we breathe it and we need it. It...

Religious Buildings (6) Places of worship for extinct religions

Around the world we find several places of worship for extinct religions. This article is based it on my own photographed visits. There is a host of contemporary religions than I presented in the previous four blog entries. There are many extinct religions as well....

Travelling

More paintings about travelling

You will now get to know more paintings about travelling. Several years ago Sandalsand published an article about this subject. Right here you will find even more paintings from around the world. Like you read in the first article, the paintings about travelling...

The elusive goal of visiting all World Heritage Sites

For many years I have worked consciously to visit UNESCO World Heritage Sites wherever I travel. I first choose a place or a country to visit, then I look up which heritage sites that may be around when I get there. This is about the elusive World Heritage Sites. In...

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 ultimate list of great travel movies

Find the ultimate list of great travel movies right here. This post sums up 40 movies worth watching. Read why and watch the trailers. I have used a few criteria to compile my list of movies. A travel movie's plot should involve a movement from one place to another,...

Travel apps – Hotels, flights, transportation, communication, handyman

This is the second of two posts offering advice on which apps to use for travelling, near or far. This post deals with travel apps categorised as Hotels and flights, Local transportation, Communication, and a special section simply called Handyman. The other post...

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...

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...

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...

Is your paid vacation similar to other countries?

It comes as no surprise that paid vacation time varies throughout the world. But how much?   The infographic The people at Good.is has set up a nice little infographic. Not surprisingly, European states offer the best benefit for their citizens while North...

Travel movies – Two or more people

This is about travel movies; Two or more people off to discover the world and themselves. We have come to the third list of great travel movies. In the previous article we met the lone wolves travelling the earth's surface looking for something.  The following...

Writing and publishing

Bucket list for 2017 and beyond

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 my bucket list for 2017 and later. Read the review of...

Get your favourite news delivered to you

How do you find out if your favourite news and travel blogs have posted new content? Do you have them bookmarked and actually visit each and every site? Stop doing that, and follow my advice.   I'm following 200 travel blogs, magazines and newspaper travel...

2018 is out, here is 2019

As in previous years, I will summarise what adventures I had in 2018 around the world and in Norway. There was no lack of them. Many have been shared with you readers and more will come. Sandalsand publishes trips and travel related impressions on two websites:...

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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