Do you know that living in a desert, surrounded by enormous dunes, we still have to buy sand?
First when I saw a truck loaded with sand heading to Jeri, I couldn’t believe my eyes!
Anna and I made all kinds of jokes about this being like “selling snow in winter in Norway”, however a small thought stayed in the back of my mind: if somebody brings it, somebody buys it…
Later the same night I found out that our sand from the dunes is not fit for construction purposes (i.e. mixing with cement) because it is salty. It will crash and crumble, or something like that. So, one needs to buy sand from the river bed if he wants to mix a quality cement for construction.
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