Category: newsletter
-
TrekAmerica Discount
TrekAmerica has offered Globetrotters readers of this e-newsletter a 10% Discount on all of their tours. TrekAmerica offers a range of over 60 adventure camping, lodging and walking tours in…
-
Anglo- Paraguayan Friendship Society
Globetrotters Tony wrote in to tell us about the Anglo-Paraguayan Friendship Society he belongs to. He says that they hold some very enjoyable social events throughout the year. If anyone…
-
Meeting News from Ontario
For information on Ontario meetings, please contact Svatka Hermanek: shermanek@schulich.yorku.ca or Bruce Weber: tel. 416-203-0911 or Paul Webb: tel. 416-694-8259. Meetings are held on the third Friday of January, March,…
-
Top 5 Things to Do in a Lifetime
The BBC recently showed a programme outlining the results of a viewer’s poll stating the top 50 things they thought everyone should do in their life. The top 5 things…
-
Tourists Kidnapped in Colombia
Police in Colombia say that eight foreign tourists have been kidnapped as they hiked near the Caribbean coast where a so-called Lost City (Ciudad Perdida) sits in the jungle built…
-
Meeting News from Texas
Globetrotters meeting on October 11th at 2pm If you like independent, adventuresome, fun, daring, exciting, “off the beaten path” travel, this club is for you. Our meeting begins at 2…
-
Concorde Auction
Aviation enthusiasts, get ready! Air France is set to auction 200 parts from its retired Concorde fleet at Christie’s Paris auction room in October. After 27 years of service, everything…
-
Boycott Lonely Planet
The Burma Campaign UK is calling for a boycott of all Lonely Planet (LP) publications until Lonely Planet withdraws its Burma guide from the market. The Burma Campaign say that…
-
Trouble in Paradise
London based human rights group Amnesty International has openly criticised the government of the Maldive Islands and asked them to end what it calls systematic political repression. Amnesty says torture,…
-
Padmassana visits Berlin
Continuing our recent theme on visiting Germany, we had the Beetle’s report on Munich, and now Padmassana has sent us this trip report from his recent visit to Berlin. This…