Inspiring Travel Writing from Barnaby Rogerson: Page 2 of 4
Articles by Barnaby Rogerson: Page 2 of 4
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Sicily with my Father
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Italy
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Sicily
As a family we laugh, drink and travel well. But, underneath this surface jollity there’s a strong competitive streak. It is perhaps no coincidence that my sister lives in the Burren in Ireland, my elder brother in the Venezuelan jungle and my...
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Sahara: The Garden of God
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Egypt
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Sahara
It was irritating: here I was after five days of near-continuous, round the clock travel and years of desire, finally perched on the edge of the Tenere, the desert within the desert, the Sahara of the Sahara, pretty well bang in the middle of North...
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Islam
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Barnaby Rogerson
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France
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Provence
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For the last 1400 years there has not been so much as a second, let alone a minute, when this community is not offering up praise to the divinity. The public call to prayer that echoes out from the minarets of all the great mosques of Islam is like...
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Gibraltar in History
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Barnaby Rogerson
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France
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Pas-De-Calais Region
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Boulogne-sur-Mer
Gibraltar is one of the two pillars of Hercules that guard the western entrance of the Mediterranean. It has always been a place apart, a rock wrapped up in a mythological identity, draped in a long, curious and often violent history. A place of...
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Sacred Music Festival
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Morocco
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Northern Morocco
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Fez
Three voices from three of the daughters of Abraham awaited us. These three women, one Jewish, one Christian, one Muslim, stood illuminated on a stage that had been formed by closing one of the gateways into the 13th century palace quarter of the...
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Venezuelan Gold
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Venezuela
We took coffee with a jaguar hunter who lives alone in his commodious hut in the jungle, the woven wattle walls of his three rooms decorated with cast-offs from the odd bits of the materialist civilization that he had need of out here, so that there...
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Up the Nile on the Golden One - Dahibiya
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Egypt
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Cairo & Giza
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Cairo
I was worried about group dynamics. It showed in my packing. One whole bag stuffed full of books and whisky in case of social meltdown. The last group trip I signed on for was twenty years ago, but the memory of it has not diminished. I can still...
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In Search of the Queen of Sheba
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Ethiopia
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Addis Ababa Region
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Addis Ababa
I came here looking for the old palace of the Queen of Sheba. I came armed with a pair of stout histories and a promisingly thick archaeological field-guide. I need not have burdened myself. I know nowhere on earth to match Ethiopia. Amid the scent...
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Ethiopia: Gondar
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Barnaby Rogerson
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India
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Tamil Nadu
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Chennai
As I wondered through the great royal halls of the old Abyssinian capital of Gondar, I thought of love. A newly-wed couple, dressed in robes fit for an Emperor and an Empress, were being photographed against the backdrop of the ruined palaces. Six...
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Praise the Beauty of its Eyelashes: camel journeys in North Africa
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Morocco
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Southern Morocco
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Zagora
Man can recite the 99 Islamic names of God but the 100th name is known only to the camel. This does much to explain it's superior attitude and inscrutable smile. The camel also has the power to look straight through you, leaving you with the...
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