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These articles deal with travel blogs – where they are and how they should work. In addition, my own year-end summaries and some Tech stuff related to writing and publishing are included.
If you are looking for regular travelogues, head for the Destinations page. If you want to learn more about the world around us, look into the other pages in the Specials menu: Travelling and World Abstracts.
Bucket list for 2015 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...
2014 is out, 2015 is here
15 flights, 26,524 kilometres, 5 trips, 6 countries, 24 days spent travelling, 7 new World Heritage Sites visited. That was the statistics for 2014....
Useful WordPress plugins
Sandalsand is using WordPress as a blogging platform and content management system - and so are 60 million websites across the globe. ...
How to technically make your own travel blog?
Sandalsand is celebrating its first anniversary as an independent travel blog under its own .net domain. This is a look into the rear mirror at what...
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...
2013 is out, 2014 is here
26 flights, 36,822 kilometres, 7 trips, 9 countries, 35 days spent travelling, 14 new World Heritage Sites visited. That was the statistics for...
Welcome!
Welcome to Sandalsand.net. This is a travel blog with illustrated articles from around the world, going back to the mid-1980s. The site has moved...
Where to find good travel blogs (2012)?
In the autumn of 2011 I published my selection of 23 good travel blogs. This year I present 30 more travel blogs I subscribe to. I do believe many...
Where to find good travel blogs (2011)?
Where do we find good travel blogs? In a post I asked "What makes a travel blog (good)?" I am looking for the best travel blogs, those that have...
What makes a travel blog (good) (2011)?
What makes a travel blog good? I have since I started my own practice explored the world of travel blogs. How do you define a travel blog? A...
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. (Ernest Hemingway)
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together. (Bill Gates)
I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful.
Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about; I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking 12 miles for four buckets of water.
And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people — Americans and Europeans — come back and go, ohhhhh. And the light bulb goes on. (Henry Rollins)