Having crossed the Alps, we found ourselves in Yugoslavia and then in Greece, where the butchers in Thessaloniki warned us that the Turks would cut our heads off, which fortunately did not happen. Like H.C. Andersen – who visited Istanbul a century before us – we found the Turks friendly and generous. Read more in ”A Swede on the Hippie Trail” which will be available on Amazon.com on September 3.
Harald Sandberg's 1969 Portrait of Louis Armstrong
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*Louis Armstrong* died on this day (July 6, 1971). He was very popular in
Sweden, and my father - *Harald Sandberg* (Swedish painter, 1912-1983)
painted th...
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