Members Slides : Around the world in eighty minutes.
10 presentations of 10 slides
Speaking this month in a fast paced journey around the Globe we have:..
- Hilary Clark — The colours of Mexico
- Jenny Power — Stranded on St Helena
- David Shamash — Baltic Cruise
- Janie Butler — Hawaii
- Peter Hall — The trip from hell
- Mary Fogarty — Seven saints of Marrakesh: Mary’s pilgrimage
Coffee/Tea/Chat
- Emily Edgell — Mongolia/New Zealand
- Cristina Lopo — Remote tribe in Thai forest: why not to get insurance
- Justyna Hellebrand — Myanmar (Burma)
- Jayesh Patel — Uzbekistan
- Hemant Amin — Coastal Odessa
- Rosemary Brown — In the Aegean: Welcoming Syrian refugees
Reserve speakers
- Simon Finnamore — Chiang Mai highlights
- Francesca Jaggs — Sri Lanka
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 between 45 – 60 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
Please allow extra time to travel as the Pride Festival is coming to a close with the annual parade on Saturday July 7.
https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/attractions/when-is-london-pride-2018-parade-route-schedule-and-timings-everything-you-need-to-know-a3877436.html
Update from TFL https://tfl.gov.uk/
Pride London
From 08:00 until approximately 20:00 on Saturday 7 July, the following roads will be closed from Portland Place to Whitehall. From 08:00, Portland Place and Langham Place; from 09:00, Regent Street between Oxford Circus and Piccadilly Circus; from 10:00, Piccadilly, Shaftesbury Avenue, Regent Street St James, Whitehall, Horse Guards Avenue and Trafalgar Square and approaches including Charing Cross Road southbound, Strand westbound and Northumberland Avenue westbound; from 10:30, Oxford Street and Regent Street between Mortimer Street and Oxford Circus.
From 06:00, Pall Mall East will be closed and all traffic will be diverted through the Cockspur Street bus lane; various roads will be closed in Soho, including Golden Square and Dean Street. From 07:00, Waterloo Place will be closed. Traffic disruption is likely on the A501 to the north, Park Lane and the A4 to the west and Victoria Embankment and Waterloo Bridge to the south.