Inspiring Travel Writing from Barnaby Rogerson: Page 3 of 4
Articles by Barnaby Rogerson: Page 3 of 4
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Roman Morocco
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Morocco
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Northern Morocco
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Tangier
North Africa was once one of the richest provinces of the Roman Empire. In the 3rd century AD the Imperial family, a third of the Roman senate and a third of the knights came from North Africa. Morocco was on the fringe of this golden age. No road...
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Prester John
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Morocco
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Southern Morocco
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Sahara
Prester John has led many a man off on an unending quest. One only has to think of Friar William of Rubruk marching ever further east, from Mongol court to Mongol court in his search for the fabulous Christian King who would outflank the enemies of...
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Tunis for the Weekend
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Tunisia
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Tunis and the North Coast
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Tunis
'Tunis, ah yes ' is often combined with a certain glassy look that I have come to recognise. The person is floundering. They are trying to visualise a map and differentiate this particular spot in North Africa from all the others which I am always...
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Through a Glass Darkly: North Africa as seen through English travel writing
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Tunisia
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Tunis and the North Coast
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Tunis
It is not enough for a traveller in North Africa to sit in the shaded Cafe de Paris (be it on Avenue Habib Bourguiba in Tunis, Place de France in Tangier or Place Djemma el Fna in Marrakech) and just sip a coffee beside the street theatre of a...
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The English Season in Morocco
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Morocco
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Marrakech Region
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Marrakech
It is, as they say in Morocco, 'the English Season'. Like some strange breed of bird that migrates to its own discordant calendar the English have taken to visiting Morocco in February and March. These are the very months that the country is...
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North Africa Round-up
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Morocco
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Marrakech Region
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Marrakech
Earlier this year there was a fright story from Tunisia, claiming an armed cross-border incursion by 20 Algerian fundamentalists in mid-May. A fire-fight resulted in five deaths. The prominence given to this story has as much to do with internal...
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Aphrodite of the Beautiful Ass
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Turkey
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Aegean
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Cnidos
Lucian was here before us - some two thousand years before us - with his cheap jokes, his wise cracks and casual impieties. Such a well-travelled man, such a polished speaker, such an amusing and prolific writer. Why did he hate the gods so? Was...
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Bodrum
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Turkey
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Aegean (Bodrum Peninsula)
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Bodrum
"We are going to Bodrum, where do you think should we stay?" I asked. She looked at me and then peered out of the window. "Bodrum, you should have seen it just after the war. Camel caravans would use the beach just beneath our terrace, their heads...
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To Timbuktou
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Mali
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Niger River
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Timbuktou
I was slumped on a reed mat that overlooked lush marsh pasture surrounded by dozens of herdsmen. I was being offered what looked like a selection of donkey droppings while my driver, Ousmane, was looking out over the flooded landscape dotted with...
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Not Smoking in Ethiopia
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Ethiopia
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Addis Ababa Region
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Addis Ababa
No one smokes in public in Ethiopia. The Church has never approved of the habit. Memory of famine has reinforced this disapproval and made of it an iron social law. However in a bar, filled with four dozen beautiful statuesque Ethiopian girls poured...
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