Hello Globies! Our next meeting will be April 6th at The Wings Theater,
154 Christopher Street. 4:00pm sharp. We have yet, another exciting guest
speaker. Mary Russell, an import coming over from Dublin to speak to us
about her travel to the middle east, specificallyBaghdad and Damascus!
Mary is a travel writer, whose latest book will be published by Simon
and Schuster on June 1. Mary will be giving a slide talk to the London
Globetrotters in June, and we get the sneak preview this April! Her books
are “The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt”, “Please Don”t
Call it Soviet Georgia”, “Amazonian” and, in June: “Journeys
of a Lifetime”. Mary has travelled to the Sahara and the Finnish
Arctic, the Eastern Caribbean, Southern Africa, Moscow, Tbilisi, Dublin
and Donegal.

Last year, she spent three months travelling around Syria on foot, by
bike and local transport. Last November, Mary returned to Damascus and
from there travelled overland to Baghdad. These two cities have strong
historical ties and her slides and talk will be about both places, with
up-to-day descriptions of what it”s like to travel in an Arab country.
(She was also in Israel last year, obviously she has a great interest
in the middle east!) Mary always travels solo and by shoestring. The last
two chapters of her next book “Journeys of a Lifetime”, are
about Syria.

New York meetings are held at The Wings Theater, 154 Christopher Street
(btw Greenwich St and Washington St), to the right of Crunch Fitness,
in the Archive on the first Saturday of each month at 4 pm. As always,
$8.00 for members, $10.00 for non-members.