Inspiring Travel Writing from Rose Baring
An omnivorous traveller for some years, Rose Baring has come to enjoy returning to the same places and tends now to travel in North Africa, Turkey and Russia. She spent the early 1990s living in Russia, writing the Cadogan Guide to Moscow and St Petersburg, and co-wrote the Cadogan Guide to Tunisia with her husband Barnaby Rogerson. She lives in London with two daughters, works as a freelance writer for Dorling Kindersley and runs a travel publishing imprint, Sickle Moon Books.
Articles by Rose Baring
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Before You Die: Take a Real Russian Banya
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Rose Baring
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Russia
Take a real Russian banya. Find a remote wooden bath-house in a clearing in the forest, in winter. Take a bottle of vodka (as good as you can afford) and a bunch of dried birch twigs or veniki. Settle into the fug of the steam room for as long as...
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Before You Die: Djemma al Fna
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Rose Baring
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Morocco
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Marrakech Region
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Marrakech
Spend the whole night before the Feast of the Throne in the Djemma al Fna in Marrakech. The soul of Africa migrates here for the celebration, and her Saharan heart beats in time with the hypnotic Gnaoua musicians. Rose Baring
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Before You Die: Take a Walking Holiday
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Rose Baring
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France
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Provence
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Take a walking holiday. Get to know a small area well rather than racing superficially across vast stretches of land. Listen to the journey within.
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Before You Die: Michelangelo's Perfect Elliptical Space
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Rose Baring
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Italy
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Lazio
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Rome
Watch the sunset suffuse the many-coloured marbles of the Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome, Michelangelo's perfect elliptical space. Bring your own sundowner. Rose Baring
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Before You Die: Slip into a Tent
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Rose Baring
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Botswana
Botswana. Slip into a tent with the wild animal of your choice after an evening round the fire watching the stars and listening to the sobering sound of animals that prey on humans. Rose Baring
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Boating on the Bosphorus
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Rose Baring
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Turkey
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Marmara
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Istanbul
Do you remember Ratty's advice to Mole in The Wind in the Willows? 'There is absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.' It makes you wonder if he has been to Istanbul. This city was built for boating. Perched...
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Back to a Chekhovian Future
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Rose Baring
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Russia
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Central Russia
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Moscow
Time travel. I've done it. You just leave Moscow, the bustling capital of a former super-power, and head out into the countryside. The motorway quickly diminishes into a double-tracked highway and out of the woods people emerge to squat on the...
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L'Hippocampe
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Rose Baring
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Morocco
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Atlantic Coast
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Oualidia
The Oualidia lagoon has long been famed for its oyster and clam beds, and a cluster of hotels has grown up around an abandoned royal palace where the tapering lagoon meets the sea. The oldest of these, the Hippocampe, consists of rooms in long...
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Small but Perfectly Formed: Southern Morocco’s Best Hotels
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Rose Baring
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Morocco
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Atlantic Coast
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Essaouira
Southern Morocco has long attracted Europeans in search of a break from the gloom of winter. In fact there is barely a day when the foyers of its well-known hotels, the Mamounia, the Roseraie, the Gazelle d’Or and the Villa Maroc, do not ring with...
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Auberge Kasbah Derkaoua
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Rose Baring
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Morocco
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Southern Morocco
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Erfoud
About 15 miles south of the desert town of Erfoud, a small watercourse, empty for all but a few days a year, is the place chosen by Frenchman Michel as the site of his Auberge Kasbah Derkaoua. Just beneath the surface of the seemingly barren desert...