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The Globetrotters Club

The travel club for independent travellers.

Year: 2005

  • Destination Guide – Trieste by Karen Bryan

    Trieste is an Adriatic coastal city in north eastern Italy, close to the border with Slovenia. The sea in the Gulf of Trieste is very clear and clean, with limestone…

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  • Greg McKenzie's Motorbike Travels from Rio Gallegos to Ushuaia

    Trip duration: 19 days Trip miles to date: 3,040 Miles since last update: 1,023 I've recently arrived in Peurto Natalès having successfully visited Ushuaia and the end-of-the-world!!! Having hoped to…

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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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  • Meeting News from London by Padmassana

    September 2005 London meeting.  Globies kicked off the newseason at our temporary venue The Concert Artists Association onthe other side of Covent Garden.  Jules Stewartstarted the season with his talk…

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  • MEETING NEWS

    Meeting news from around the world.

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  • Swaziland Tassel Burning Ceremony

    Since 2001, in Swaziland, teenage girls have had to wear large woollen tassels as a sign of their chastity. Now news comes that Swaziland's King Mswati III has ended a…

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  • Low Cost Indian Airline

    Low-cost Indian airline SpiceJet said it would launch cut-rate domestic flights in May 2005 to lure travellers from popular train services. “The fares will be slightly higher than AC (air…

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  • Have you got a tale to tell?

    If you have a travellers tale that your aching to tell. Then why not visit the “Travel Sized Bites” section of the Website and share it with the world. Travel…

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  • So You Think You're Well Travelled?

    Here’s a little Beetle quiz based on currencies. See how many you get right! Go on, have a guess! Where would you find the following currencies? Lek Loti Pula Ruble…

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  • Avoid Illicit Brew

    Do not drink home made alcohol – anywhere, not just Kenya. Over 50 people have died after drinking home made alcohol laced with a substance believed to have been methanol…

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  • Mutual Aid

    Need help? Want a travelling buddy or advice about a place or country – want to share something with us – why not visit our Mutual Aid section of the…

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  • Know Your Riyals from Your Kwatcha

    Need to convert currency? Take a look at The Globetrotters Currency Converter – get the exchange rates for 164 currencies The Globetrotters Currency Cheat Sheet – create and print a…

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  • Stowaway Dies

    A Chinese boy died after falling from the landing gear of a passenger jet on take-off in north China. The stowaway, believed to be aged around 10, fell from a…

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  • Drunk and Disorderly

    Two former America West pilots Christopher Hughes and Thomas Cloyd were removed from an Airbus A319 in Miami on July 1, 2002, and charged with operating a plane under the…

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  • New Rat Found in Laos

    A completely new family of rodents, a kind of rat has been found in Laos. The animal has long whiskers, stubby legs and a tail covered in dense hair and…

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  • World Airport News June 2005

    Spanish travel group Marsans, which owns Aerolineas Argentinas, plans to create a new unit in Peru and begin flights there within five months. An Aerolineas spokesman said they expected the…

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  • Satellite Photo

    Spotted by Webmaster Paul, here’s a satellite photo from Google of Spaghetti Junction. Spaghetti Junction

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  • Butterfields Reunion

    Reunion Kingston London Sunday 11th Sept 2005 for any member of Globetrotters who travelled overland to India or on the rail tours organised by Butterfields. Please e-mail butterfieldashley@yahoo.co.uk

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  • Pretoria May be Renamed

    Pretoria was named after Andries Pretorius, a Boer settler and a folk hero of Afrikaners who later set up the apartheid racial discrimination system. The city council approved the switch…

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  • Japanese Table Manners

    According to a recent survey conducted by condiments giant Ajinomoto, it seems that traditional eating habits are changing fast in Japanese homes. The report says that only about 20 percent…

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