• Mary Kinipple ‘Tapestry & Tibet’
  Mary had travelled 3 times to Tibet in the past but always in a group and the trip mainly focused on schools and monasteries. As  a practising weaver Mary wanted to find out about domestic weaving in Tibet and travelling with just a guide and driver sought out weaving in the domestic scene.
• Jonny Bealby – Pakistan as a travel destination. Over the last 18 months Pakistan as really picked up as a tourist destination. Despite the on-going political problems of the country, and despite the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the mountains of the north continue to be a popular pull for the adventure tourist. So what is it that makes the place so special and what do tourists and traveller do once there. Jonny Bealby, who has written a book about the region and set up his travel company Wild Frontiers on trips to region, will explain why www.wildfrontiers.co.uk

London branch meetings are held at The Church of Scotland, Crown Court, behind the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden at 2.30pm the first Saturday of each month, unless there is a UK public holiday that weekend.

Admission: Members £3.00 Non-members £6.00

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