Tag: July 2003
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Fact File: Largest Lakes in the World
OK, don’t look – can you name the five largest lakes in the world? A quick clue, one of them is a sea. Rank Name Area Sq Miles Area Sq
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Meeting News from London
Globetrotters meeting 5th July 2003 by Padmassana This month we enjoyed slides from club members encompassing destinations all round the Globe. So going (very) roughly in a westerly direction from
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Iris.s Diary of An Overland Trip Through South America
Iris, a British lady of considerable character and pluck, is on a 23 week overland expedition from Quito in Ecuador to Caracas in Venezuela. After this, she plans to do
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Meeting News from New York
New York meetings are having a summer break, Laurie and New York meetings will be back in September. For details of forthcoming meetings email: newyork@globetrotters.co.uk. New York meetings are held
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Travelling Medical Hints and Tips
Some more travelling medical hints and tips for people on the move. If you find yourself under the weather, there is almost always an alternative remedy to finding the local
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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,
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Mac.s Jottings: Clothing
U. S. Soldiers Home, Washington: during a century of travel (well 78 years!) both in and out of service I have travelled to over 150 countries (I count both North
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Meeting News from Texas
Globetrotters meeting on August 9th The Texas Branch of the Globetrotters Club will meet August 9th 2003 at the New Braunfels Public Library – note back to old location. If
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Munich Explored
The Beetle recently visited Munich for shell repairing and discovered that it is a really nice, friendly, pretty and interesting city, easy to get around with some surprising touches –
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UK Government Asks Travel Operators to Boycott Burma
The UK Foreign Office has asked British tour operators to stop arranging holidays to Burma because of the ruling regime's record on human rights. In a letter to ABTA, the

