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

Let’s get up in the air. We will search for the varieties as well as common denominators, which define this planet and life on it.

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Travelling

Sandalsand deals with travelling in a wider sense of the word than only describing actual trips. Let us 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 aimed at 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 Specials 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: 10 Great Caves

A cave is a hollow place in the ground, often very deep but also quite small like a grotto. Here is a nice selection av 10 great caves.   This post is part of a series portraying the classic Elements of Nature: Earth, Fire, Water, Air. Caves are examples of the...

Nature: 8 Dry Deserts

Have a look at this selection of 8 dry deserts. The Earth's surface is predominantly wet, covered by water. Some areas are on the other hand extremely dry.    This post is part of a series portraying the classic Elements of Nature: Earth, Fire, Water, Air....

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

Travel apps – Maps, navigation and guides

This is one of two posts offering advice on which apps to use for travelling, near or far. We'll first concentrate on the very basics: Maps and navigation and Guide(books).  The other post deals with travel apps categorised as Hotels and flights, Local...

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...

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...

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...

A disintegrated Europe – what would it look like?

Is Europe on the road to self-destruction? Secessionist movements are gaining momentum, and history proves they will be successful. The forces of disintegration in a world of constant conflict and change is challenging the Old World more than ever before.  ...

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,...

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...

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 Guidebooks

Travel guidebooks on print have a long and proud history, but they are losing popularity, and they meet increased competition. This article is about the evolution of guidebooks in the last 30 years. Do you need them at all, what kind of guidebooks do you need, and...

The Fascination of Passports

I have always had a fascination of passports. Browsing through a passport is like opening a book to the world and to the life of the owner. After a few decades you’re likely to have a collection of them. If you have been adventurous they will be filled with visas and...

Writing and publishing

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...

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....

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 unfulfilled tasks. The tasks of creating more content on Sandalsand. Days of joy and days of sorrow I could have waited another...

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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