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: 8 Dramatic Cliffs

Here you will find 8 dramatic cliffs. Steep mountain slopes hitting the waves on a coastline are always dramatic, especially in rough weather.   This post is part of a series portraying the classic Elements of Nature: Earth, Fire, Water, Air. Cliffs are examples...

Religious Buildings (12) After death – Special memorials, with no identified dead persons

What happens to a person after death? For some there are special memorials, with no identified dead persons. Military and political authorities have had a need to create what is usually known as a "Tomb of the unknown soldier". There is no identified soldier buried...

Nature: Introduction

This is the introduction to a series about nature, or inspiring natural phenomena. We'll be dealing with the classic elements of nature. Human elements, such as cultural landscapes, will be largely exempted. The human experience cannot however be fully erased. There...

Travelling

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Paintings about travelling

Painters have always been fascinated by travels, in all aspects of the word. This article on paintings about travelling is a look into their world and how they imagined travel would be like, or how they themselves experienced it. Travelling stimulates our imagination...

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...

Tourist or Traveller: What is the difference?

What are the differences and similarities between these two terms: Tourist or traveller? The answer might be found by exploring perceptions, intentions, and behaviour of each category. Which category do you identify with? The distinction between a “tourist” and a...

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...

Counting countries or the art of exaggeration

Have you ever wondered how far you've travelled, how you got there, for how long, and to how many countries? Well, I have. My statistics are found on Travellerspoint, along with the map I use to keep track of my travels. It states that I have been travelling the...

Writing and publishing

2023 is out, here is 2024

2023 is out and this article is a look back at Sandalsand's travels and articles. This year I reached several exciting destinations. Also, read up on my bucket list for the coming year(s). Sandalsand publishes impressions on two websites: Global and Norge (Norway)....

Bucket list for 2014 and beyond

I will by the start of a new year be 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. Read the review of 2013 posted on this very day, New Year's day.   2014...

2022 is out, here is 2023

2022 is out and this article is a look back at Sandalsand's travels and articles. It was another exceptional year. There was only one trip abroad, but in return it gave more time to domestic travels in Norway. Also, read up on my bucket list for the coming year(s)....

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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