Speaking this month we have:

1. Sam McManus – The Pale Tablelands: Travels through the mountains of Ethiopia.

   Including travels through one of the lowest places on the planet in the Danakil Depression and traversing the highest plateau on the African continent, Sam McManus relates a three-month journey across this incredible country. The narration will include a historical, geographical & cultural overview of Ethiopia.

2. Alistair McLean – Hurtigruten – a bygone era of sea travel.

   For over 120 years Hurtigruten has delivered post, cargo and people to remote communities scattered along the breathtakingly beautiful coast of Norway. An increasing number of tourists are drawn to witness the atmosphere on board the ships, keen to experience the way of life, the nature and the very simplicity of what Hurtigruten does. The pressure to resist the onslaught of what the modern cruise lines offer has sustained this very unique service and is the very reason passengers are so passionate about the journey.

   Alistair McLean has worked with Hurtigruten for almost 10 years and has seen the innovative ways the company has set about modernising itself whilst retaining that bygone feel of sea travel at its most traditional sense.

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.

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Speaking this month we have 4 talks and 5 speakers:

1. • Rosemary Alexander – Beijing.
   • Adam Lang – 72 hours in Beijing.

     “I have just returned from celebrating Christmas and New Year in Southern Goa and investigating “demonetisation and black money ” in India.

     Taking note of the ancient Nepalese Good Luck – Once a year go somewhere you have never been before- I travelled last November for the first time to China on a short visit to Hong Kong and Beijing interested as a ‘ foreign devil ‘ to find out more about China -Ancient and Modern.”

2. • Hilary Clark and Hemant Amin – Andate e ritorno: from London to the Mezzogiorno by train.

     Globetrotters may be independent travellers but they can – perhaps not surprisingly – also be great travelling and dining companions!

     A weekend rendezvous with other Globies in Naples was the highlight of a rail trip which took Hem and Hili from London via Paris to the deep south of Italy, stopping in Turin, Genoa, Sestri Levante, Naples, Salerno, Agropoli and Paestum. Hem finished the trip with a visit to Florence and Siena before returning on the “scenic” route via Milan, Basle and Paris.

   • Sylvia Pullen – The Philippines 2016.

     Sylvia talks about visiting Manila, then travelling on to the island of Palawan, then on to Cebu, Bohol and a couple of other islands before returning to Manila.

3. By tradition we follow this meeting with a New Year Party post-meeting – everyone is invited to bring food and drink and participate!

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.

If you would like to keep up to date with what’s happening at the Globetrotters London meetings and to be sent email reminders prior to the meeting, please sign up here

Speaking this month we have:

1. Brian Anderson – Tierra del Fuego – ‘The Land of Fire’

   ‘The Uttermost Part of the World’ – In 1519 Magellan became the first European to navigate a wild and remote channel linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Sailing in search of a westward route to the Spice Islands, Magellan sighted many fires along the coastline.  His sailors christened this uncharted area “Tierra del Fuego”, or ‘the Land of Fire’. Sailing the same waters in 1577, Sir Francis Drake described this southern tip of South America as “the uttermost part of the earth”. Charles Darwin visited the region in 1832 and 1833 and described the Fuegian tribes as the “most uncivilised savages” he had ever encountered. 

   Join Brian for the incredible story of Tierra Del Fuego and to view his stunning landscape and wildlife images from 4 expeditions to the region. You will see the Fuegian red fox, penguins, sealions, magnificent Caracas, skuas and shags, plus many other animals and plants which survive in this most remote and inhospitable region of the southern hemisphere.  

2. Richard Evans – Laid Back around the World in 180 Day.

   From the vast deserts of Kazakhstan to the Pyrenees via the monsoons of Southeast Asia, the Australian Nullarbor, the Canadian Rockies and Great Lakes, this is Richard Evans’s travelogue of his six-month journey around the world by recumbent bicycle in 2014.

   Averaging around 1,000km per week, Richard shared treacherously potholed highways with speeding juggernauts, faced freezing nights and scorching days, and battled headwinds strong enough to blow him off the road. Having lost 7kg in the first seven weeks and with 19 weeks still to go, it was important to stabilise the weight loss. A cure was found in beer and dumplings.

   Find out more at http://laidbackaroundtheworld.blogspot.co.uk

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.

If you would like to keep up to date with what’s happening at the Globetrotters London meetings and to be sent email reminders prior to the meeting, please sign up here

Speaking this month we have:

1. Tom Fremantle – A thousand mile walk along the US-Mexico border – and other stories!

   Tom Fremantle talks about lessons from the road with a focus on the US-Mexico border. His latest book – just launched – is called Pancho’s Song, a young adult novel set on the US-Mexico border.

   Tom’s website is https://booksandblisters.com

   Tom is also speaking to support the amazing work of Shiksha Rath, at The Troubadour, 263-267 Old Brompton Rd, Earls Court, London SW5 9JA on Friday, 14 October 2016

   

2. John Gimlette – Elephant Complex – Travels in Sri Lanka

   John Gimlette describes his three months of travels in Sri Lanka. Few places are as contradictory. The island is home to over 7,300 wild elephants and yet it’s only the size of Ireland. For the last three decades, it’s hosted not only an alluring tourist industry but also the most savage civil war Asia has ever known (1983-2009). Venturing into the remotest corners of the country, John will be offering advice for those wishing to share in the beauty and strangeness of this remarkable country.

   

   

   

   

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.

If you would like to keep up to date with what’s happening at the Globetrotters London meetings and to be sent email reminders prior to the meeting, please sign up here

Speaking this month we have:

1. Members Slides : Around the world in eighty minutes. 10 presentations of 10 slides This month we have a fast paced journey around the Globe..

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 session lasting approximately 40 minutes.

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

If you would like to keep up to date with what’s happening at the Globetrotters London meetings and to be sent email reminders prior to the meeting, please sign up here.

There is no meeting this month.