After this year’s Annual General meeting we were straight into two very different and equally enthralling talks‚- our first at the newly refurbished Church of Scotland‚…which is now a lot more welcoming to visitors !

Lois Pryce – Lois on the Loose – Alaska to Ushuaia, Solo by motorcycle.

Lois Pryce left her job at the BBC to ride her motorcycle from Alaska to the tip of South America, alone‚- this talk was about what happened along the way and what drives her. See Lois’s web site for fuller details of this trip and what she’s been up to since – www.loisontheloose.com.

Dan Bachmann -The Karamojong: Forgotten Tribes

As the club’s winner of the first 2009 travel award, Dan spoke enthusiastically about “On a far corner of Uganda live the Karamojong – a group of people who live by a unique culture that has existed for hundreds of years, but they now face the influence of the outside world coming from multiple angles. This talk will leave you hanging about the fate of these people where the modern world is as much as a threat to existence as a key to survival.”

Details of the London branch’s forthcoming meetings, September through to December 2009, can be found at https://globetrotters.co.uk/meetings/lon10it.html

The London branch 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, unless there is a UK public holiday that weekend. There is no London meeting in August, but we start afresh in September. For more information, contact the Globetrotters Info line on +44 (0) 20 8674 6229, or visit the web site: www.globetrotters.co.uk.