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Bottles of sand from the beaches of the D-Day invasion are going on sale. Georges Lancelin unveiled the $8.75 product Friday, in time to pitch it to thousands of visitors arriving for the 50th ...
For that amount of sand, the tourist has reportedly been fined nearly $1,200. The sand from Sardinia’s beaches has been federally protected since 2017, Travel and Leisure reports.
Collecting sand may seem like a harmless activity, but it could land you in a big heap of legal trouble on many beaches ...
Tourists bottle the sand up to then auction on online sites, BBC News reports. "Sandy beaches are one of the main attractions of Sardinia," a local environmental scientist told the BBC.
It takes one bold twist on tradition to shake up the beer world — and Japanese designer Kenji Abe just did that with a bottle ...
The couple from France, who were caught with 40kg (90lb) of sand, reportedly said they were taking it home as a “souvenir”. The sand was found stuffed into 14 plastic bottles according to the ...
One local news website, La Nuova Sardegna, posted a video of a couple it described as "probably foreigners", apparently filling a bottle with white sand from the beach at Arutas on the west coast ...
After almost 30 years in Italy, a bottle of sand from Uluru returns home An Italian tourist took the sand during her travels, but decades after taking the souvenir, she has sent it back to the red ...
I am spoilt for choices when it comes to buying souvenirs from here. There are jewellery, scarves, mosaics, ceramics and, of course, the usual fridge magnets and T shirts at every shop. But I am ...