Our 4th Legacy winner, Katie Fahrland, will leave the UK on Thursday, 31st January, for the first leg of her journey to Bamako city. She plans to take a pinasse downriver to Segou to participate in the Festival sur le Niger, a celebration of West African music and arts “seeing the colour of African dance, film, crafts and music bursting to life in front of me – (meeting) Burkinabes, Senegalais, Maliens, Ivoriens, Guineens, Ghaneens – all the people and nationalities of this wonderful West African world”.

Katie will return to the UK on 14th February. We look forward to her reporting back to us – in person, via an article in the Globe magazine and, of course, her illustrated talk to Globies – to be planned soon after her return. We hope she travels safely and has a wonderful trip.

A member of Globetrotters Club ? Interested in a £1,000 travel award ? Know someone who is ? We have up to £1,000 to award twice a year for the best submitted independent travel plan.

See the legacy page on our Website, where you can apply with your plans for a totally independent travel trip and we’ll take a look at it. Get those plans in, as the next Legacy deadline will be April 30th, 2008 !!