Globetrotters meeting 5th July 2003 by Padmassana
This month we enjoyed slides from club members encompassing destinations all round the Globe. So going (very) roughly in a westerly direction from London this is what we saw. The architecture and vineyards of Paris and London (Dick Curtis). We headed north to the spectacular Northern lights (Dan and Dwayne). In southern Europe we saw what the Aeolian Islands have to offer for walkers (Jeannie Copland). Across the Med’ we saw the sand and towns of Libya (John Williams).
Heading into Asia we saw the Teji Festival in Mustang (Marianne Heredge) before heading north-west via the Karakoram Highway to the Silk route of western China. (Neil Harris). In Thailand we saw the Karan people with their decorative neck wear. (Helen Barnhill). Our next stop was the wonderful South Korean island of Cheju. (Kevin Brackley). We then crossed to Japan for views of Kyoto. (Sue Baker). Across the Pacific to the Argentinean capital Buenos Aires. (Phil Ferguson). Finally we saw a series of slides on the theme of water which took us from Iguacu Falls and back across the Atlantic to Iceland’s geysers and waterfalls. (Gavin Fernandes).
There is no London meeting in August. Our next London meeting will be on Saturday 6th September:
John Gimlette will talk on Paraguay – The Island surrounded by Land. Award-winning writer, John, takes us round a country that has emerged from centuries of isolation. As one of the most beguiling and eccentric places there is, we visit a vast lost ocean, the battlefields of the bloodiest war man has known, picked Victorian warships, cannibals, a highland ball and plenty more. John's book “At the Tomb of the inflatable Pig.”
Richard Snailham, a Globetrotters Club Vice President will talk about On Reed Boats down rivers in Bolivia and Paraguay. Following a hunch that cocaine and nicotine might have reached the Old World from the New in very early times, John Blashford-Snell had three reed boats built on Lake Titicaca and tested them out on the Desaquadero river and subsequently reaching Buenos Aires and Belem in similar craft.
London 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. There is no London meeting in August, but we will be back in September. For more information, you can contact the Globetrotters Info line on +44 (0) 20 8674 6229, or visit the website: www.globetrotters.co.uk