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Once Upon a Saga
Personal blog · onceuponasaga.dkculture
Once Upon a Saga is a personal blog at onceuponasaga.dk about culture. Since 2015, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Once Upon A Saga – back in Danish waters”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Chronicles Torbjørn Pedersen's journey to visit every country without flying, including travel, hardship and the trip's progress. HN commenters link it while discussing his trip, his book and his health.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Man travels to every country in the world without flying
Most-linked posts?
- Once Upon A Saga – back in Danish waters2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-10
What Hacker News says?
If you're this guy, not very well: https://www.onceuponasaga.dk/blog Spent 9 years traveling to every country on earth by land/sea in a single, continuous journey. 6 left to go, and they got stranded in Hong Kong for one year and counting now.
Comment linking /blog
on “Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?”Submitted Once Upon A Saga – back in Danish waters as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSeems to have been just before covid - certainly wasn't when he did his trip though https://www.onceuponasaga.dk/blog/259-saudi-s-in-audi-s-and-...
Comment linking /blog/259-saudi-s-in-audi-s-and-the-two-seas-of-bahrain
on “A man who visited every country in the world without boarding a plane (2023)”Submitted A rare blog from inside Eritrea as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhe slept on the ground. https://www.onceuponasaga.dk/blog/205-how-to-spend-24-hrs-in...
Comment linking /blog/205-how-to-spend-24-hrs-in-the-vatican-and-wonderful-albania
on “A man who visited every country in the world without boarding a plane (2023)”His book just came out: https://www.amazon.com/Impossible-Journey-incredible-through... (not an affiliate link) And there's a documentary apparently coming out soon. I followed his journey live on https://www.onceuponasaga.dk/ and it was a weird mix of inspirational and very sad. He was clearly struggling with severe depression towards the end of it, but he could not bring himself to stop, so there he was, squatting…
Comment linking /blog/489-most-definitely-possibly-maybe-leaving-tuvalu
on “A man who visited every country in the world without boarding a plane (2023)”He had a longer blog entry for North Korea, but I like how the FAQ summarized it as "DPRK is a far more normal country than what we are lead to believe". The rest of the FAQ is great reading as well: https://www.onceuponasaga.dk/more/faq
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on “A man who visited every country in the world without boarding a plane (2023)”- qw · 2025-05-20
Yes, it's #176 on his list of countries: https://www.onceuponasaga.dk/journey
Comment linking /journey
on “A man who visited every country in the world without boarding a plane (2023)” I've been vaguely following the blog called Once Upon a Saga [1], where Torbjørn Pedersen is chronicling his even more ambitious project of visiting every country in the world without flight. [1] http://www.onceuponasaga.dk/ I think being from an unthreatening country (Denmark) and traveling as a representative of the Red Cross is helping him avoid the distrust, bureaucracy, and corruption that the author of this ar…
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on “The Hardest Places in the World to Visit”somehow url got truncated, here https://www.onceuponasaga.dk/blog/510-back-in-danish-waters-...
Comment linking /blog/510-back-in-danish-waters-mv-milan-maersk-guest-no-1
on “Once Upon A Saga – back in Danish waters”
