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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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Globe 2018 Spring Picture Quiz
Globe 2018 Winter 2018 Picture Quiz Winner Congratulations to Kay Grey who won a year’s membership of the Globetrotters Club in the Winter 2018 picture quiz by correctly naming the
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My Indian Experience By Francesca Jaggs
India has a reputation for transforming people. Since I returned just a week ago I have had 2 people ask me how I think it has changed me. I didn’t
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Lebanon – At the Crossroads By Sam McManus
The drive up from the city had been both disorientating and familiar. It is strange to see in the same panorama both the turquoise ripples of the Mediterranean and mountains
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Odessa – the next big city break By David Redford
The city break is a phenomenon of our times, and the ability to jet off to a foreign city for two or three nights has broadened all our horizons. In
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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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Globe goes digital.
After holding membership fees at 1995 prices we have reduced them by producing Globe digitally (and saving on the printing and postage costs). Members can read Globe on or offline on iPads & tablets. Kindles
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Globe Winter 2015
Globe is an info-packed newsletter with travelogues by members, book reviews, travel tips, bargains and news. There is a mutual aid section where you can exchange information; place advertisements and
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Globe goes digital.
After holding membership fees at 1995 prices we have reduced them by producing Globe digitally (and saving on the printing and postage costs). Members can read Globe on or offline on iPads & tablets. Kindles
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Rio de Janeiro 'Cidade Maravilhosa' or 'Reasons to be cheerful in Rio' by Tony Annis
Being ‘shaked, rattled and rolled’ round this exciting city in the 584 bus that seems to cover nearly all the main parts of the south of Rio at a breakneck
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2 i’s Coffee Bar Skiffle – It’s Not Just Rock ‘N Roll by Tony Annis
The still cameras flash, the video cameras turn, the crowd press forward – Old Compton St. in Soho half closed off. Nothing new about this – It could be an
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Review of The London Daily Telegraph Adventure Travel Show January 2007 by Globetrotter Roving Reporter Tony Annis
New regime, new management, new ideas! Only taking over the show from last November, so how did it work out? Did they rejuvenate it or did they blow it? The
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Write in (3)
This year I received quite an unusual Christmas card from Myrna & Gene, who I’d met whilst sailing aboard the Soren Larssen in the Pacific Ocean – they related some