Category: archive
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Meeting the Tattooed Headhunters of Nagaland By Sunita Koch
Nagaland is a state located in the far northeast corner of India on the border with Burma. Born and raised in the neighbouring state of Meghalaya, I grew up hearing…
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Konnichiwa from Kitarō
Comic book capers arriving in Sakaiminato on the Eastern DreamBy Pete Martin It’s weird to be in Japan. It’s my first time and I really do feel like I’m on…
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Meet the Members – A life of travel
My first long-distance travel experience was accepting a one-year studentship to work at Guanajuato University Library in Mexico in the mid-1980s. I extended my time in Mexico for another year…
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Unchartered territory around Lake Hashinge, Ethiopia By Sam McManus
The only lake of any size in the northern province of Tigray, Lake Hashinge feels like the Como of Ethiopia. It joins two large areas of lush flatland to the…
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A Back Road Happenstance by Duncan Gough
Coming lunchtime and just what I am looking for:- water running from a plastic pipe but with a drinking cup left beside the fuente de beber close to a…
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Just back from Sri Lanka by Francesca Jaggs
I had bronchitis a couple of weeks before I was due to travel to Sri Lanka. I suddenly did not want to go. I felt really vulnerable and depressed, but…
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Don’t Cry For Me Argentina By Paul Gillingham
‘Don’t Cry For Me Argentina’ was resonating from loudspeakers throughout the Sunday market in the San Telmo district of Buenos Aires, sounding even more wonderfully romantic sung in Spanish as…
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Transformational Moments by Pete Martin
Pete Martin describes St Basil’s in Moscow, one of the many places around the world that has taken his breath away and he now calls his Transformational Moments. I enter…
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Write in (1) …Bishkek to Beijing with Gavin Fernandes
Long term club member, traveller extraordinaire and beer connoisseur Gavin has done it again with his latest adventure ! Whilst at the Travel Adventure show in London, Gavin entered Oasis…
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An Appeal for Help in Rwanda by Michael Rakower
Here is an appeal by Michael on behalf of the American Friends for the Kigali Public Library (the AFKPL) for help creating Rwanda’s first public library. Michael is a regular…
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Travel Reminiscences by Stanley Mataichi Sagara
My name is Stanley Mataichi Sagara. My Christian name was given to me by my first grade teacher who was probably from the Midwest and had never had an experience…
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The Canadian Arctic by Robert, a former Chair of the Globetrotters Club
As I write this I am crossing the Mackenzie river on a ferry on the way to Inuvik, Northwest territories, several hundred miles north of the arctic circle and as…
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FAQ's about the Globetrotters Club? What are your criteria for membership?
What are your criteria for membership? We don’t have any criteria, anyone can join all we ask is that, they pay the membership fee, which is to cover the costs…
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Travel like a local San Franciscos best kept secrets.
There’s more to San Francisco than the Golden Gate Bridge and Fisherman’s Wharf. Get the inside scoop on the Bay City’s best oysters, Mai Tai’s, tips on traveling around the…
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World of travel July 2012
World of travel Hello, I am current writing a MBA dissertation for Liverpool University, on a new adventure holiday destination in the South Atlantic sea. The island is called St Helena and…
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July meeting news from the Chester, UK branch by Angela, Hanna & Eve
Hi to all Globetrotters again We thought to send you a reminder of the next meeting on Saturday 21st of July at the Grosvenor Museum. Doors open as usual at…
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Write in…Travel Photo Competition by the Chester, UK branch
Photos are a great way to record your favourite holiday moments and capture the beautiful locations and peoples you have visited. We will be holding a best travel photo competition…
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GT Travel Award
What is the award ? Are you inspired by all this talk of travel ? Are you ready for you own independent adventure ? Or do you know someone who…
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July meeting news from the Ontario, Canada branch
Annual Meaford Picnic at Vera Blowers, 228 Eliza St., Meaford, ON. Tel. (519) 538-5729. 2:00 p.m. to ? Pot-luck supper, swimming in Georgian Bay, croquet, horseshoes, etc. Bruce Weber will drive…
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July meeting news from the London, UK branch by The Ant
At the July meeting we held the annual “Around the world in eighty minutes.” Event, where we were given 10 presentations of 12 slides taking you on a fast paced…