Category: newsletter
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Travel Quiz
Win a Frommer’s guidebook on Seattle 2003. See www.frommers.com for info on Frommer’s guidebooks. Some people have said the quiz is difficult, we say do some research; try google.com or…
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Meeting News from London
Globetrotters meeting on 5th April by Padmassana Our first speaker Thomas Bourne showed us slides of Chile, Patagonia, Antarctica and South Georgia. Thomas had spent his gap year on board…
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What Counts As A Visit
Kevin from the UK wrote in to say: “I think it depends also on whether you need a visa to actually set foot in a country e.g. when I came…
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Why Yoga is Like Travelling
Some thoughts by Padmassana, likening travel to yoga – or the other way round! He says: “When you travel you are thinking about what you are seeing, where you are…
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Meeting News from New York "Ladakh: The last Shangri-la?"
“Ladakh: The last Shangri-la?” “In the forbidding terrain of the Himalayas, a robust people embellish their frugal lives with rich endowments of faith” (Thomas J. Abercrombie, National Geographic). Experience the…
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Mediterranean Bookings Down
The tourism industry has been heavily hit by the current conflict in Iraq. Holidaymakers are avoiding Turkey and Cyprus and indeed, the most of the Mediterranean. Muslim countries, such as…
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Meeting News from Ontario
For information on Ontario meetings, please contact Svatka Hermanek: shermanek@schulich.yorku.ca or Bruce Weber: tel. 416-203-0911 or Paul Webb: tel. 416-694-8259. Meetings are held on the third Friday of January, March,…
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Hadrian.s Wall Path to open
For the first time this spring, visitors will be able to walk the full length of what was the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire. Opening May 23, the 81-mile…
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Meeting News from Texas
Globetrotters meeting on 12th April by Christina The April meeting in Texas provided a plethora of travel tips – from the virtues of ziplock bags to the uses of duct…
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Algeria Missing Tourists
If you are planning to travel to the Sahara in Southern Algeria, you may want to re-think your plans. 8 Austrian tourists have just gone missing, bringing the number of…