{"id":108,"date":"2001-05-27T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-05-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/2001\/05\/27\/london-2-2\/"},"modified":"2023-12-10T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T11:34:30","slug":"london-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/london-2-2.html","title":{"rendered":"London:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marion Bull gave us a great slide show and hints and tips about how to   make good slides. For example, she advises photographers to take slides   which do not have large expanses of background or foreground. We learned   that travel editors usually want to see slides of people, and Marion gave   us some hints and tips about this but showed us some of her favourites   which were more slides of objects and landscapes. Marion can be contacted   through her <a href=\"https:\/\/marionbull.com\/\">website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gina Corrigan <\/strong>gave us a talk accompanied by some wonderful   slides showing the people and costumes of the Miau in South West China.   We also learned a little about the efforts made by the Chinese government   to try to preserve some of this amazing heritage. Gina is a photographer\/traveller   who runs specialist textile tours to China. Gina can be contacted by e-mail   on: <a href=\"mailto:gina&#46;occidor&#64;virg&#105;&#110;&#46;&#110;&#101;&#116;\">gina&#46;occidor&#64;virgin&#46;net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next on June 2<sup>nd<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><strong>Martin Featherstone<\/strong> travelled to Namibia in February   with the intention of seeing the elusive Desert Elephants. Whilst he found   the elephants, he lost his bearings and spent two days amongst the beautiful   coloured sands of the Namibia Desert. Having successfully extracted himself   from that scrape, he was then chased by a bull elephant, which came through   his campsite! Martin will show us slides from his Namibia trip in a presentation   entitled The Red Deserts of Namibia &#8211; A tale of two Stupidities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jose Navarro <\/strong>will be talking about his epic journey   across Mali entitled Two Wheels to Timbuktu &#8211; 2000km cycling across Mali.   Jose did this rather amazing journey on his &#8220;Interactive Bicycle&#8221;.   The &#8220;Interactive Bicycle&#8221; was awarded an &#8220;On the Line&#8221;   Millennium Award by the Millennium Commission. 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