After our usual gap of one month, London Globetrotters meetings are
back at 2.30pm on Saturday 6th September.
John Gimilette will talk about 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, Globetrotters Vice President will give a talk:
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