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“Everyone Has A Story”
March 2nd, 2026 by Roger Darlington
After a year and a half of interviewing, writing and editing, my latest book – entitled “Everyone Has A Story” – is now available for purchase on Amazon. It is a series of profiles of 33 of my friends with particularly interesting stories. As you read these profiles, you’ll be amazed, amused, informed, and inspired. […]
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Our West Africa cruise to Senegal and The Gambia
February 28th, 2026 by Roger Darlington
I love travel and, over my 77 years, I’ve done over 200 foreign trips. Recently – together with my fiancée Tess – I made my first visit to West Africa. It was a cruise to Senegal and The Gambia. You can read an account of our holiday here. This brings the number of countries that […]
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West African Cruise Day 3: Sunday – Cruise the Sine-Saloum Delta, explore Joal Fadiouth and sail to Banjul, Gambia
February 15th, 2026 by Roger Darlington
This morning, we arrived in Senegal’s Sine-Saloum Delta, a UNESCO biosphere reserve and an important birding area. The park is a haven for lots of mammal and fish species, from marine turtles and dolphins to West African manatees and crocodiles. Today’s optional excursion started at 9.15 an and finished at 3.45 pm and it was […]
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West African Cruise Day 2: Saturday – Visit Gorée Island and begin cruise to the Saloum River Delta
February 15th, 2026 by Roger Darlington
Our began with a trip to Gorée Island, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, just a 20-minute ferry ride from Dakar. Here, our local guide Omar toldus about the island’s slave trade history at the museum in Fort d’Estrées and the Maison des Esclaves, where captives were imprisoned before being shipped overseas. We paid our respects […]
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West African Cruise Day 1: Friday – Arrive in Senegal
February 15th, 2026 by Roger Darlington
On Friday 13th, we started our trip. It was 4C and cloudy in London when we flew out of Heathrow Airport at 7 am heading for Brussels. After a trip of just 40 minutes and then a wait of four hours, we flew down to Dakar, a journey of 5 hours 40 minutes. There is […]
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West Africa Cruise: introduction
February 12th, 2026 by Roger Darlington
I used to have an objective to have visited as many countries as my age. Then I found that I was racing ahead with my international travel. Now my wish is the reverse: to live for as many years as the number of countries that I’ve visited! I’m about to start of a new trip […]
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The plans for my next book
November 28th, 2025 by Roger Darlington
It’s taken me 13 months, but today I finished writing my next (the fifth) book “Everyone Has A Story”. There are 33 profiles of friends of mine with interesting stories. The profiles are typically around 2,000 words and the total word count is 73,000. I now have to check through all the text (December), have […]
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What the best year to have been born?
November 22nd, 2025 by Roger Darlington
The “Guardian” newspaper this week published this letter: I agree with Julian Richer: the circumstances into which we are born affect how we get on in life (It’s time to bust the meritocracy myth – I’ll be first to say I’m lucky, 18 November). I had a relatively ordinary background and worked in the public […]
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Visit to Tunisia (9): conclusion
October 19th, 2025 by Roger Darlington
Tunisia deserves to be more popular as a tourist attraction, especially with Europeans, than it is. For the British, it is a flight of only two to two and a half hours and there is no time difference. All the signage is in French as well as Arabic, French is widely spoken, and English is […]
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Visit to Tunisia (8): Sousse
October 10th, 2025 by Roger Darlington
The last day of our trip (Friday) was spent in Sousse. Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which is a part of the Mediterranean Sea. It has a population of 217,000. We started at the Archaeological Museum which houses one of the largest mosaic collections in the world. […]
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