Speaking this month we have:

1. Denise Heywood – Legend and Lustre: Jim Thompson and Thai Silk.
2. Two Mini talks of 15-20 minutes.
   • Marion Bull – Devil’s Island.
   • Basia Filzek – Mongolia.

Our original speakers unfortunately had to cancel, we are currently updating the programme.

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. Tomislav Perko – How to travel the world with almost no money?

   Tomislav Perko, 29, is a travel writer from Croatia. After a career of a stockbroker, broke because of the financial crisis, he hits the road and turns it into his home. He uses alternative ways of travelling – hitch-hiking, couch-surfing, working/volunteering, and manages to wander around the world with just a little bit of money in his pocket, meeting the most amazing people on the way.

   Five years later, he publishes a book “1000 Days of Spring” and goes around giving lectures about what it means to live on the road.

2. Barbara Brooks – a quick trip across Canada & North America Barbara is talking about her recent over six months travelling trip across Canada & North America and meeting old friends and making new ones.

• We are sorry the previously advertised talk by Jeanie Copland has had to be postponed. Jeanie Copland – on to Ho Chi Min (Trans Siberian Part 2).

  Having travelled the Trans Siberian railway from Moscow, via Mongolia, to Beijing; now continue on China’s railways to Nanning, crossing into Vietnam to connect with their reunification rail network – “adventuring en route!!”.

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.

This month we have:

1. AGM : The clubs AGM starts at 1:00pm (card carrying members only), then at 2.30 the meeting begins

Speaking this month we have:

2. Ashley Butterfield – Tales of a bogieman: Round India on a railway carriage (100 times) The pleasures and perils of taking assorted foreign tourists round India by rail, before the advent of the internet /mobile phone / Tripadvisor etc.
3. Andrew Lyndon-Skeggs – 1,300 km walk from Auch to Dieppe.

   Businessman, photographer, resident of a 38.5 meter barge in Paris, gardener, lecturer on the Jazz Age in France, alumni of Magdalene College Cambridge, one time conjuror and Master of the Cambridge University Drag Hunt, plus early internet entrepreneur, Andrew Lyndon-Skeggs has now also walked across France.

   The idea for the walk came out of the blue and, having never done a long walk before, Andrew Lyndon-Skeggs decided to walk right across France. Two criteria only; boundary to boundary, and avoid the Chemin de St Jacques de Compostello. Oh, and, South to North. Why not? At least it avoids looking into the sun all day. The talk will include personal reminiscences, photographs and (if you want to take it) practical advice. Much looking forward to meeting you all.

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. Graham Hoskins – An Amazing, Life Changing Travel Adventure in Just Two Weeks?

   Graham Hoskins has made it his business to find life changing travel adventures by motorbike that he can do in just two weeks. From Russia, to the Middle East, Africa and all over Europe, he has ridden many thousands of miles in search of his dreams. He tells the stories of the adventures using the films he made and hopes to inspire others to explore the world in short bursts!For details of the ‘Motorbike Diaries’ adventure documentary TV series’s, please visit: www.motorbikediaries.co.uk

2. Jacqui Trotter – Japan – three weeks in cherry blossom season

   Jacqui Trotter, Australian, a resident in the UK since 1988, (mostly) independent traveller, nurse and a Globetrotter Club member (since 1998), will be talking about her recent trip to Japan in ‘sakura’, cherry blossom season. Having a full time occupation means that trips so far away must pack a lot of things into a short time. While the ideal would be to dawdle and meander around, this trip is all about seeing as much as possible of this amazing land in the thee weeks available. Japan Rail Pass in hand, a personal hotspot (to aid connection and compensate for the language gap), one small bag on wheels and camera, the trip begins…. and one cannot have too many photos of cherry blossoms!

   

   

   

   

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. Karen Neale – A Fellow Traveller

   A Sketchbook journey Inspired by World Heritage Cities and Sites from Paris to Kathmandu.

   Visit karenneale.co.uk to find out more

2. Zara Taylor – Antarctica – Shackleton’s World

   A trip on the expedition ship Akademik Sergey Vavilov to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsular. Wildlife, Whaling and survival in this most challenging of environments.

   Related links

   • Oceanites
   • South Georgia Heritage Trust

     

     

     

     

     

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. Jon Tindale – Squashed Possums – New Zealand

   In an unexpected twist to the travel memoir, ‘Squashed Possums’ is narrated by a caravan in the wilderness. The book tells the story of the iconic Kiwi lone caravan and one young man’s misadventures in New Zealand’s most remote corner as he finds out what it’s like to live in a true wilderness, surviving in the most basic of conditions.

   Follow Jon through four seasons, including New Zealand’s coldest winter in decades. Discover how he finds himself hanging off of the edge of a cliff and meet the Maori chef who survived 9/11. Encounter hedgehogs that fly, possums that scream in the dead of the night and the Mystery of the Missing Moa. Find out how Jon is rescued in the nick of time from the cult of Caravanology by the affections of a good woman who opens a door to the local Maori world.

   Jon Tindale now lives in the suburbs of London with his wife Amy and son, William. He is eternally grateful for central heating and a house that can’t be blown apart by the big, bad wolf. He works in social media and in his spare time can often be found in National Trust houses where his friendly banter with the volunteers is often misconstrued as making untoward advances.

   ‘Squashed Possums’ is now available via Amazon on Kindle. and as an old school paperback

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2. Russell Maddicks – A Culinary Trip Round Ecuador in 5 Iconic Dishes (including guinea pig)

   Squeezed between Colombia in the north and Peru in the south, Ecuador is named for its location on the Equator and encompasses high Andean peaks, steamy Amazon jungles, and a long Pacific coast, as well as the world-renowned Galapagos Islands some 1,000 km off the coast.

   The landscape is so varied that Ecuador has been described as a microcosm of every microclimate found in South America.

   This diversity makes it a magnet for tourists, mountain trekkers, birders, volunteers, and increasing numbers of US retirees looking for a warm, culturally interesting, economical, and safe place to spend much of their time.

   What many people don’t appreciate is that the country is also a foodie’s paradise, with a cuisine as varied as the terrain.

   Signature dishes range from the sublime – such as Andean locro de papas (a creamy potato and cheese soup), coastal ceviche (fish or prawns marinated in lime), and hornado (whole roast hog) – to cuy (roasted guinea pig), a must-try Inca delicacy for all adventurous carnivores.

   In this presentation, I will give a visual tour of all the top travel spots and unique adventure opportunities on offer in Ecuador with a special focus on the tastiest treats available in each region of the country.

   Russell Maddicks is a BBC-trained writer, translator, and journalist. A graduate in Economic and Social History from the University of Hull, England, he has spent the last twenty years traveling, living, and working in South and Central America, most recently as Latin American Regional Specialist for BBC Monitoring.

   Find out more: website or on twitter

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.