Inspiring Travel Writing from Richard Newton: Page 2 of 2
Articles by Richard Newton: Page 2 of 2
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Tunisia & Saudi Arabia: Desert Song
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Richard Newton
On this desert night, I am a nomad. There is nobody awake to deny it. It is hours since the campfire guttered to ash, but the stars remain alight, burning with fluid intensity. Under the rippling sky, half-a-dozen tents lie in hessian parody of the...
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Rocket Boys
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Richard Newton
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United States
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West Virginia
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Bramwell
There is coal beneath the surface in West Virginia. It is below the Appalachian mountains and it is under Paul Groves' skin. After 43 years down the mines, often in tunnels just 36 inches high, shards of the black stuff are permanently embedded in...
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The Greenbrier
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Richard Newton
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United States
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West Virginia
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Appalachian Valley
Everything points to the Greenbrier. Although the famous resort nestles discreetly in an Appalachian valley, seemingly remote from the world, the Washington DC-Chicago railroad skirts the boundary, Interstate Highway 64 passes within two miles, and...
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Before You Die: In Moriche Village Deep Within the Venezuelan Amazon
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Richard Newton
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Venezuela
In Moriche village deep within the Venezuelan Amazon, sit on a veranda and allow a Piaroa Indian armed with a blowpipe to fire a wodge of hallucinogenic yoppo up your nose. The initial blast is not dissimilar to inhaling half a swimming pool. When...
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Saudi Arabia: Travel of an Infidel
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Richard Newton
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Saudi Arabia
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Central Saudi
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At Taif
Church bells. Even through the fog of first consciousness I knew that their descending chimes did not belong here. But where was I? Opening sticky eyes, I squinted at a rectangle of curtained light. An air conditioner purred coolness. The bells...
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Malawi: The Wisdom of SS Ngoma
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Richard Newton
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Malawi
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Nyika National Park
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Nkiya National Park
Standing within his own grave, Mr Ngoma apologises for not being dead. “It will happen soon,” he promises. He made the same prediction when we last met. Five years on, the headstone at the near end of the gaping vault still awaits a vital statistic...
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The Lost Art of Finding Things
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Richard Newton
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Turkey
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Mediterranean Coast
If you could view the Mediterranean through the eyes of Ahmed Mones, you would not be looking at a featureless sea. “Kerkennah fishermen own sections of the ocean, like farms,” he says. We are tacking lopsidedly across shallow green...
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Poetry by the Ocean
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Richard Newton
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United States
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California
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Carmel
One of Clint Eastwood’s successors as mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea recently unveiled a dogs-only drinking fountain in a downtown plaza. Before cutting the ‘rib-bone’, she told the gathered dignitaries that the ‘Fountain of Woof’ (as it was officially...
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Yukon and Alaska: Winter Wonderland
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Richard Newton
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United States
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Alaska
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Yukon River
These are people who walk on water. Yukoners. On Marsh Lake, and on Lake Laberge, and across the great Yukon River itself, they stride confidently where, for much of the year, choppy waters threaten even the strongest swimmer. There are no waves in...
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