Jeanie Copland: continuing her odyssey through South America. Jeanie looped through the eastern side of the country, learning Spanish along the way, heading into the silver mines at Potosi and complete her circle via Brazil & Rio de Janiero.

Jacqui Trotter: Fellow Committee member and all round club stalwart Jacqui completed her own journey through the southern Americas…this time spending a number of weeks travelling by chicken bus through Central America. Armed with only two or three other travel companions plus there various talents of Wayne the driver, Jacqui headed from Mexico, through the myriad of nations to Panama and after her own year away, back to London.

Details of the London branchÂ’s forthcoming meetings, through to July 2010, 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 7193 2586, or visit the web site: www.globetrotters.co.uk.