Hello all,
A new year edges out of the wintery days and we have a raft of articles, news & anecdotes to recount for you…
Hot off the press – introducing the Globetrotters Club new President John Pilkington 🙂
John arrived at the London branch December meeting, expecting to renew a number of friendships & acquaintances and deliver his booked talk on travelling through the ‘Axis of Evil’.
However John left London with more than he bargained for – club members Jeanie Copland & Jacqui Trotter also invited him to become our President…and according to Tony Annis who was in the audience he “was enthusiastically endorsed by the whole audience”.
John’s involvement in the club has now come full circle, as he once helped make tea [during a meeting] for the club many years ago.
You will get to hear more from John over the coming months but like me I’m sure you’ll welcome him aboard & wish him luck !
Congratulations John 🙂
What else is happening across the wider travel world ?
· UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph is running an ongoing 2010 travel writing competition…seehttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travel-writing-competition/ for more details
· the Adventure Travel Show returns to London in January 2011, http://www.adventuretravellive.com/, where the club’s very own Dick Curtis will be organising a travel advice stand once more. Hopefully the volunteers can continue to help would be travellers make sense of all the possibilities the exhibitors highlight 🙂
If you don’t fancy volunteering you can still benefit from the club’s friendship with the show’s organisers…members can get a discounted entry to the show itself…simply the club’s Members’ Area on the web site or contact me for details via email.
· Hot on the heels follows London & Birmingham’s Destinations Travel shows – http://www.destinationsshow.com/, where more mainstream travel options get their airing as well
· I’ve also got news of another discount for club members – this time it’s courtesy of www.travelwritingworkshop.co.uk. Organiser Peter Carty is offering “…[for] the workshop…in central London…there is a discount of £10 for your members…the next workshops are January 29th and February 26th 2011″.
· And finally a bit further into the future & the London Olympics of 2012…the BBC reported that a cultural Olympiad will run alongside the games…http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11934812
That’s all for now, enjoy the read and keep sending me more of your stories, adventures and articles 🙂
The Ant