Category Archives: Chester_Meeting

Chester Globetrotters Meeting – 20th September 2025

Speaking on Saturday, 20th September 2025, we have :

  • Kevin Jones and Hanna Bastiaansen – Canada Ride East and West
    A trip to Eastern Canada covering 3000 miles in 3 weeks in 2024 and in 2007, Western Canada from Banff to Jasper during November, one of the most beautiful landscapes.
  • Bill Powell – Ramblings of a Tour Manager
    A tour of Bill’s most and least favourite European destinations visited during ten years of escorting groups overseas. Hear about little known holiday destinations, mad dictators, magnificent scenery and disastrous developments.

Doors open at 1pm for 1:30pm start until 4:00pm
Entrance fee £5 (£4 Globetrotters members*) refreshments included (cash only)
info@chesterglobetrotters.com – www.chesterglobetrotters.com

Chester Globetrotters Meeting – 17th May 2025

Speaking on Saturday, 17th May 2025, we have :

Christine Stockton – Armenia

Armenia today is a democratic nation with an ancient cultural heritage and was the first
country to adopt Christianity as the state religion. It has 3 UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
This was a 10 day tour organised by the Chester Civic Trust.

Brian Anderson – South Georgia

Brian has visited South Georgia three times, the last trip was in October 2024. Through his
stunning images, he looks at the island’s history, geography and incredibly rich flora and
fauna that survives’ and in some cases, flourishes in this harsh place.


Doors open at 1pm for 1:30pm start until 4:00pm
Entrance fee £5 (£4 Globetrotters members*) refreshments included (cash only)
info@chesterglobetrotters.com – www.chesterglobetrotters.com

Chester Globetrotters Meeting – 19th July 2025

Speaking on Saturday, 19th July 2025, we have :

  • A Botswana Safari. Speaker: Nikki Young.
  • India (part two) – from Agra to Mumbai by train, bus and plane. Speaker: John Brinkley.

Doors open at 1pm for 1:30pm start until 4:00pm
Entrance fee £5 (£4 Globetrotters members*) refreshments included (cash only)
info@chesterglobetrotters.com – www.chesterglobetrotters.com

Chester Globetrotters Meeting – 15th March 2025

Speaking on Saturday, 15th March 2025, we have :

  • Anna Manning & Howard Jennings – Christmas in the Caribbean with a tandem
    The talk covers two Christmas periods spent in the Caribbean with our tandem. The first was 2022/23 in Barbados and the second was 2023/24 in Martinique and Guadeloupe
  • lan O’Neill – India — Street Life
    Ian spent many weeks travelling around the northern states of India, where he’s been lucky to meet many people who work hard to survive, but always with a smile on their faces

Doors open at 1 pm for 1:30 pm start until 4:00 pm
Entrance fee £5 (£4 Globetrotters members*) refreshments included (cash only)
info@chesterglobetrotters.com – www.chesterglobetrotters.com

Chester Globetrotters Meeting – 18th January 2025

Speaking on Saturday, 18th January 2025, we have:

  • Daniel Rowland – A motorbike trip along the Pamir Highway,
    exploring the Stans
  • Pam Davies-Ratcliffe – A holiday to Ethiopia to explore the
    countryside & meet its people

Doors open at 1pm for 1:30pm start until 4:00pm
Entrance fee £5 (£4 Globetrotters members*) refreshments included (cash only)
info@chesterglobetrotters.com – www.chesterglobetrotters.com

Chester Globetrotters Meeting – 20th January 2024

Speaking in January we have:

  • Daniel Rowland — Overland by Motorbike Armenia and back

Six months overland by motorbike through 29 Countries through the Balkans and Turkey to explore both Georgia and Armenia and returning via Greece, Italy and the Alps.

  • Christine Darwen Sri Lanka: Scenic and Wildlife Tour of the South

A tour of southern Sri Lanka

Chester Globetrotters Meeting – 20th July 2024

Speaking in July we have:

  • Nikki Young/John Sunter – Easter Island

A UNESCO World Heritage site – Rapa Nui National Park is a protected Chilean wildlife area
located in Easter Island, which concentrates on the legacy of the Rapa Nui culture.

  • John Brinkley – Mumbai to Agra by train, bus and plane

A pre-Covid journey with a small group of travellers from Mumbai to Agra via Kolkata,
Darjeeling and Lucknow