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 TORONTO G.T.’s

Friday, May 25, 2012 – Northern Argentinaby Eduardo Barnett and Svatka Hermanek

Saturday, July ? - GreeceandTurkeyby Jay Wopperer and Linda Schmieder

Friday, Sept. 21 - Cycling in Cuba/Nicaragua by Mark Franklin, Practice Leader,

Friday, Nov. 16  - Career Cycles  Vietnam,Cambodia,Laos,Thailandwith Friendship Force by Mort Sider and Marilyn Weber

ONTARIO MEETINGS: Meetings and travel presentations are held on the  3^rd Friday of September, November, January, March, and May (4^th Friday),  at OLD YORK TOWER, 85 THE ESPLANADE, in downtown Toronto 8:00 p.m.            Everyone welcome especially visiting travellers.

To confirm the topic, contact Svatka Hermanek hermaneks@yahoo.ca or Bruce Weber bruceaweber@hotmail.com  tel. 416 203-0911  or Paul Webb at 416 694-8259.

8 presentations of 12 slides

This month we have a fast paced journey around the Globe..

Probably the best meeting of the year and your last chance to meet up before the summer.

London branch meetings are held at The Church of Scotland, Crown Court, behind the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden at 2.30pm the first Saturday of each month, unless there is a UK public holiday that weekend.

There is no London meeting in August, but we start afresh each September.

• Peter Cloudsley – Peru/Shamans
• Doreen Tayler – George Orwell’s Police Postings in Burma, & Doreen Tayler’s Burmese Days.

London branch meetings are held at The Church of Scotland, Crown Court, behind the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden at 2.30pm the first Saturday of each month, unless there is a UK public holiday that weekend.

There is no London meeting in August, but we start afresh each September.

• Delia Cardnell – Madagascar, Along the Route du Sud and road to Morondava (RN34)

  Delia Cardnell takes us on a journey along the Route du Sud travelling straight through Central Madagascar, where the scenery is as stimulating and surreal as the culture.

• John Pilkington – Georgia to AfghanistanAfter his last talk for us, ‘A Stroll through the Axis of Evil’, John promised a sequel and here it is. From the Caucasus he followed a spectacular branch of the Silk Road across the Caspian Sea to Samarkand, then turned south-east to the High Pamirs of Tajikistan and Afghanistan (a region well-known to Marco Polo and possibly one or two Globies), before finishing at the source of the Oxus where Afghanistan, Pakistan and China meet.

  See http://www.pilk.net/update1.centralasia.html more information about John and his adventures.

London branch meetings are held at The Church of Scotland, Crown Court, behind the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden at 2.30pm the first Saturday of each month, unless there is a UK public holiday that weekend. There is no London meeting in August, but we start afresh each September.

• Marion Bull - Upper Mesopotamia and Kurdistan
  

  Marion is a London-based travel writer and photographer, published in the Sunday Times, Guardian, Independent, Mail on Sunday, Observer, magazines and books.She has a special interest in early civilisation, neolithic art and artefacts, and is known for solo expeditions to deserts, especially in Africa and the Middle East. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4′s Excess Baggage and in a TV documentary.Highlights of her career so far include meeting Nelson Mandela, being the first UK journalist to record and exhibit rock painting images from the Tassili N’Ajjer, Algeria, and the first to photograph the remote off-limits Northern Skeleton Coast of Namibia, which became a touring exhibition.

  She is currently writing a book about her journeys.

• John Kenny - Sub Saharan Journeys: 6 years of visiting Africa’s remotest communities
  
  John Kenny is a fine art photographer living in London. Since 2006 his focus has been on Sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting the pivotal role that traditional communities play in humanity’s survival in places where the earth’s resources are minimal. His work emphasizes the positive role that Africa and Africans play in the 21st Century and also highlights the threats to traditional ways of life today. John’s work has been exhibited worldwide through international art shows and has been featured in The Times of London, The Telegraph, and the international art and photography press. John actively supports organisations that work within traditional African communities and has been a guest on BBC Radio and at the London International Documentary Festival. Last year John donated works in support of Survival international, Concern Worldwide, and his work was auctioned at Sotheby’s New York in aid of ‘Art for Africa’.John has been visiting tribes across the African continent for six years
  as part of an ongoing photography project and will be talking through his
  most memorable experiences across West, East and Southern Africa. The talk
  will be accompanied by a slideshow featuring some of the remarkable people
  that he has met on this journey, and why these people and their
  communities matter to him in the 21st Century. To get an idea of John’s
  work you can see his website: http://www.john-kenny.com

London branch meetings are held at The Church of Scotland, Crown Court, behind the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden at 2.30pm the first Saturday of each month, unless there is a UK public holiday that weekend.

There is no London meeting in August, but we start afresh each September.

• Neil Rees – In the Footsteps of King Zog of Albania
  Neil Rees researched King Zog of Albania and his exile in Buckinghamshire, England during the war. He has retraced his footsteps from his birth in rural Albania in 1895 to his death in Paris in 1961. He wrote a local history book called “A Royal Exile” about the story which has been translated into Albanian, and he is reliably informed that it is probably the first Buckinghamshire local history book ever to be translated into Albanian. It was launched at the national museum in Tirana in November 2011.
• Nadine Horn – Grateful for a spoon and getting trousers sewed by an Icelandic – Mission Spain
  What if you know that you like to travel, but simply don’t know where to start? Every day is the same and you feel that time is simply passing by? The talk is about the journey of creating unplanned adventures around you such as walking the Grand Union Canal from Birmingham to Northampton, walking from the heart of Edinburgh until encountering hills – discovering the motivation for the travel bug and ending up organising the first expedition in 30 days: Cycling around Spain solo – exploring a country you think you know but as a famous saying points out – it’s the journey that makes the difference. And then the stories follow…from being grateful for a spoon and getting your trousers sewed by an Icelandic.

  Find out more at www.nadinehorn.com / http://missionspain.wordpress.com/

London branch meetings are held at The Church of Scotland, Crown Court, behind the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden the first Saturday of each month, unless there is a UK public holiday that weekend. 

Admission costs, £3 for Members and £6.00 Non-members. You do not need to be a member to attend, and we do not sell advanced tickets, please just come on the day, the doors open at 2:15pm and the program starts around 2:30pm with each talk lasting approximately 40 minutes.

There is no London meeting in August, but we start afresh each September.

• Neil Harris – “Ethiopia: A country of two halves; history in the north, tribal Africa in the south.”

  Neil Harris is a keen photographer and since retirement an avid traveller. He will talk about and show photographs of Ethiopia. A country of two halves. The north contains many historic monuments, it was one of the first countries to embrace Christianity, while in the south tribal peoples live a lifestyle largely unchanged since before the arrival of Europeans. The building of a large dam across the Omo River threatens this way of life, this, along with ongoing extensive improvement to the road system throughout the country means Ethiopia is about to change forever.

• Sarah Murray – From the Magnificent to the Macabre: Send-Offs for the Dead.

  Sarah Murray, author of Making an Exit, traveled the world in search of
  the best send offs. She will describe her encounters with everything
  from a spectacular Balinese royal cremation and a chandelier in the
  Czech Republic made entirely from human bones to the American death
  care industry’s biggest road show and a ghoulish Sicilian crypt where
  mummified corpses line the walls.Join Sarah for an engaging and
  highly personal discussion in which she talk about some of the
  extraordinary rites and monuments she found on her travels (she might
  even tell you about the plans for her own eventual send off).

London branch meetings are held at The Church of Scotland, Crown Court, behind the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden at 2.30pm the first Saturday of each month, unless there is a UK public holiday that weekend.

There is no London meeting in August, but we start afresh each September.

Presents

• Ron Thomas “Taking better travel photo’s.”  
• Photographic competition

Doors open at 1pm for 1:30pm till 4:30 pm at the Grosvenor Museum, 25-27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD.
Entrance fee £3 refreshments included.We recommend you arrive early.
For more information contact Hanna on 01244 383392 or Angela on 01244 629930. Chesterbranch@globetrotters.co.uk

Presents

• Ethiopia by Don and Eve
• USA by Kevin Jones

Doors open at 1pm for 1:30pm till 4:30 pm at the Grosvenor Museum, 25-27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD.
Entrance fee £3 refreshments included.We recommend you arrive early.
For more information contact Hanna on 01244 383392 or Angela on 01244 629930. Chesterbranch@globetrotters.co.uk

Presents

Doors open at 1pm for 1:30pm till 4:30 pm at the Grosvenor Museum, 25-27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD.
Entrance fee £3 refreshments included.We recommend you arrive early.
For more information contact Hanna on 01244 383392 or Angela on 01244 629930. Chesterbranch@globetrotters.co.uk

Presents:

• “Australia: A Continent within a Country”
  Speaker: Mathew Proe.

  

• “Kathmandu to Tibet and Everest base camp.”
  Speaker: Dominique Schickele

  

 Have a look at the poster and perhaps you can print one up to hang at your place of work or your local club /centre, it always helps to share the promotion of our club..

Doors open at 1pm for 1:30pm till 4:30 pm at the Grosvenor Museum, 25-27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD.

Entrance fee £3 refreshments included.We recommend you arrive early.

For more information contact Hanna on 01244 383392 or Angela on 01244 629930. Chesterbranch@globetrotters.co.uk

Presents

• The first talk is about South Africa :” Cycling th Garden Route” by Madeleine Anderson
• The second talk is about Lisbon: “Europe’s cheapest capital” by John Sunter

So it looks to be an interesting afternoon again!

We have booked a different pub for after the meeting to have a drink and chat, the last pub was so crowded and we had no space to sit so we are trying The Golden Eagle, it is in Castle street, nr 18 and just behind the museum. Very easy when you walk through the shop at the back.

We have booked 2 large tables and they can turn the music down a bit for us so we can hear each other. Also they do real ale there, they have only openend up the end of last year and it looks lovely inside. So lets hope this is better for all of us!

Have a look at the poster and perhaps you can print one up to hang at your place of work or your local club /centre, it always helps to share the promotion of our club..

Doors open at 1pm for 1:30pm till 4:30 pm at the Grosvenor Museum, 25-27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD.

Entrance fee £3 refreshments included.We recommend you arrive early.

For more information contact Hanna on 01244 383392 or Angela on 01244 629930. Chesterbranch@globetrotters.co.uk

Presents

• BORNEO – ITS CULTURE AND WILDLIFE speaker Bill Powell
• CLIMBING  KILIMANJARO  speaker Mike Round.

You might like to help us spread the word about our meetings by printing it up and hanging this lovely poster in your local community centre, library or at work!  Thanks very much for your help!

Chester Meetings January Poster (PDF)

Doors open at 1pm for 1:30pm till 4:30 pm at the Grosvenor Museum, 25-27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD.
Entrance fee £3 refreshments included.We recommend you arrive early.
For more information contact Hanna on 01244 383392 or Angela on 01244 629930. Chesterbranch@globetrotters.co.uk

EVERYONE   WELCOME

“TRAVEL” with TORONTO G.T.’S

at OLD YORK TOWER,   85 The Esplanade, Toronto corner of Church St. and The Esplanade; 2 blocks east of Union Station. 

   

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