• Bruce Weber will be presenting his very interesting February trip to Nicaragua with Horizons of Friendship.

Download the flyer

For information on Ontario meetings, please contact Svatka : hermaneks@yahoo.ca or Bruce : bruceaweber@hotmail.com / tel. 416-203-0911. Meetings and travel presentations are held on the 3rd Friday in January, March, May (4th Friday), September and November at 8.00 p.m at Old York Tower, 85 The Esplanade ( corner of the Esplanade & Church St.) – two blocks east of the Union station. Public parking garage is at the foot of Church Street right next to the Old York Tower.

The London GT Branch are once again running a travel advice stand at the
Adventure Travel show in London on 26th and 27th January 2013.

Our volunteer travel advisors can :-

• Give general advice for anxious travellers making their first major trip.
• Share in-depth knowledge of countries they have visited in the past.
• Share current experience gleaned during recent travels.

The show is the UK’s only event that is dedicated to off the beaten
track experiences, featuring once in a lifetime adventures, wildlife
encounters, eco travel, remote discoveries and more.

Download the ATS 2013 Flyer to find out more about what’s happening at the show.

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Doors open at 1pm for 1:30pm start until 4:30 pm,
25-27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD. Entrance fee £3 refreshments included.
We recommend you arrive early.
For more information contact Hanna on 01244 383 392 or Angela on 01244 629 930

 Chesterbranch@globetrotters.co.uk

• “The Aurora Revisited (and other stuff!)  Nigel Bradbury
• “Getting Kicks On Route 66″ Bill Powell
  Can he make it to the end of the road this time?

July 2013 Poster

Doors open at 1pm for 1:30pm start until 4:30 pm,
25-27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD. Entrance fee £3 refreshments included.
We recommend you arrive early.
For more information contact Hanna on 01244 383 392 or Angela on 01244 629 930

 Chesterbranch@globetrotters.co.uk

• Jane Wilson Howarth ”A GLIMPSE OF ETERNAL SNOWS”
• Alan Jones: The History of Coach Travel

Download  the May Poster

Doors open at 1pm for 1:30pm start until 4:30 pm,
25-27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD. Entrance fee £3 refreshments included.
We recommend you arrive early.
For more information contact Hanna on 01244 383 392 or Angela on 01244 629 930

 Chesterbranch@globetrotters.co.uk

Svatka Hermanek presents on The Czech Republic and Slovakia all wrapped up together again–Friday, Jan. 18; 8:00 p.m. at Old York Tower, 85 The Esplanade, as usual.

As much as we appreciate these old favourites, keep in mind that we are always looking for some “new blood” to make presentations.  Do you have a trip to present at future programs, or even an oldie?  I was shocked when my Japanese housemate had never seen a Kodak Carousel projector or slides!  See you Friday; I will be back from Cuba in time that day.    Bruce Weber 416 203-0911

P.s. Svatka is just back from teaching assignments in Uruguay and Argentina.
Eduardo Barnett heads home to Argentina at the end of February this year.
Bruce Weber will travel again with Horizons of Friendship to Nicaragua in February.
Marilyn Weber and Mort Sider are trying to get to India late in the winter.
Keitaro Arakawa, currently helping out Bruce Weber since his accident, is heading for Lima, then overland to Buenos Aires in February-March 2013 before returning to Japan in June.

Who else is where?        Bruce

For information on Ontario meetings, please contact Svatka : hermaneks@yahoo.ca or Bruce : bruceaweber@hotmail.com / tel. 416-203-0911. Meetings and travel presentations are held on the 3rd Friday in January, March, May (4th Friday), September and November at 8.00 p.m at Old York Tower, 85 The Esplanade ( corner of the Esplanade & Church St.) – two blocks east of the Union station. Public parking garage is at the foot of Church Street right next to the Old York Tower.

Presents

• Roy Willis - Spending Time with The Reindeer People

Doors open at 1pm for 1:30pm start until 4:30 pm,
25-27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD. Entrance fee £3 refreshments included.
We recommend you arrive early.
For more information contact Hanna on 01244 383 392 or Angela on 01244 629 930

 Chesterbranch@globetrotters.co.uk

• The Black Stars of Ghana, A Motor Cycle Journey: Alan Whelan
• Travelling round Indochina, Barbara Lawther

Download the March 2013 poster

Doors open at 1pm for 1:30pm start until 4:30 pm,

25-27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD. Entrance fee £3 refreshments included.
We recommend you arrive early.
For more information contact Hanna on 01244 383 392 or Angela on 01244 629 930

 Chesterbranch@globetrotters.co.uk

• South American journey with Ruth and Barrie Axtell
• Getting Kicks on Route 66 by Bill Powell

Doors open at 1pm for 1:30pm start until 4:30 pm,
25-27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD. Entrance fee £3 refreshments included.
We recommend you arrive early.
For more information contact Hanna on 01244 383 392 or Angela on 01244 629 930

 Chesterbranch@globetrotters.co.uk

1. Members Slides : Around the world in eighty minutes.

   8 presentations of 12 slides

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.

1. Mary-Anne Bartlett – Art Safari
2. Carol Gyasi – Kayayo Girls of Ghana

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.

1. Francesca Jaggs – Volunteering, Ayurvedic medicine and exploration in Kerala, India.
2. Barbara Brooks - From glaciers to the driest desert on Earth – Argentina and Chile

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.

1. Neil Harris – Miao and Hmong Festivals and lifestyle.

   The Miao from SW China and the Hmong of Laos are related ethnic minority groups, their festivals show similarities, especially in the traditional dress worn by females. The Maio have many different clans, these identifiable by the headgear worn by the womenfolk. Mainly through photographs the talk will illustrate these differences and show elements of their lifestyle.

   Neil Harris, an enthusiastic traveller, is a retired Meteorologist and long time member of the Globetrotters Club. He is as keen photographer and an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society.

2. Jason Lewis - Expedition 360: The First Human-Powered Circumnavigation of the Earth.

   He survived a terrifying crocodile attack off Australia’s Queensland coast, blood poisoning in the middle of the Pacific, malaria in Indonesia and China, and acute mountain sickness in the Himalayas. He was hit by a car and left for dead with two broken legs in Colorado, and incarcerated for espionage on the Sudan-Egypt border.

   Described by the Daily Mail as “the most remarkable adventurer in the world today,” Jason Lewis shares tales from his upcoming trilogy chronicling the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth—biking, hiking, and inline skating five continents, and kayaking, swimming, rowing, and pedalling a boat across the world’s oceans—and what wider-reaching lessons in sustainability can be drawn from life in a tiny boat thousands of miles from land.

   “This is a delightful and funny adventure; it is also lonely, dangerous and frightening.” — The Times

   Find out more at jasonexplorer.com or follow Jason on twitter: @explorerjason.

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.

1. Linda Howard – A Very Long Train Journey: From Moscow To Beijing
2. Kevin Brackley – Mysore – Exploring outside the bubble

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.