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On October Saturday
\n4<\/b>th<\/sup><\/b>, our first speaker
\nwas Globie member Roger Widdecombe<\/b> who showed us
\nwhat a Raleigh International expedition is really like.
\nRoger’s project was in the west African country of
\nGhana. These trips are no holiday: participants undergo
\nassessment and rigorous training in orienteering and
\ncrossing rivers, first aid etc. Once in Ghana, there were
\nmany projects for Roger and his group to take part in,
\nincluding building a school in a remote village, health
\nprogrammes dealing with blindness caused by cataracts and
\nfor those who wanted to work nights, working on a project
\nmonitoring turtles as they came in each night to lay their
\neggs on the beach. Roger assured us that although the
\nparticipants do work hard, they also have a lot of fun,
\nincluding playing football in forty degree heat with the
\nlocal people and enjoying canoe expeditions on Lake
\nVolta.<\/p>\n

Whilst our first speaker had talked of travelling and
\ndoing good, our second speaker Juliet Coombes<\/b>’
\ntheme was travelling and having fun! Juliet’s talk was
\nabout the festivals around the world. She showed us
\ncolourful photos of the bulls at Pamplona, mad water
\nfestivals in Thailand, The Full Moon festival in Laos, and
\nthe colourful Venice festival held in the weeks leading up
\nto Lent. The Venetian festival involves lots of dressing
\nup, particularly in masks and in previous centuries was an
\nexcuse for much debauchery, sorry Globies, you are 200
\nyears too late! There are thousands of festival around the
\nworld each year, too many for Juliet to show us, but she
\ndid tell us about boat festivals in Cambodia and Elf
\nfestivals in Iceland, before winding up her talk by looking
\nat London’s own Notting Hill carnival.<\/p>\n

Next month, on Saturday
\n1<\/b>st<\/sup> November<\/b>, Amar
\nGrover<\/b> will talk about India – The “Hindustan Tibet”
\nroad and on to Ladakh in which Amar looks at India’s
\nNational Highway 22 “The Hindustan-Tibet” Road, an old
\ntrading route that exited the Raj but never quite took off.
\nHis talk includes the Tibetan regions of India, Spiti and
\nLadakh.<\/p>\n

After Amar and the break, Tom Freemantle<\/b> will be
\ntalking about Mexico to Manhattan with a Pack Mule, a 2,600
\nmile walk retracing the footsteps of his ancestor, Colonel
\nArthur Fremantle, who travelled from North Mexico to New
\nYork at the height of the American Civil War in 1863. The
\nswashbuckling colonel used stage coaches, paddle steamers
\nand steam trains to get around but nearly 140 years later
\nhis great-great nephew used a cantankerous but heroic mule
\ncalled “Brown”<\/p>\n

London meetings are held at The Church of
\nScotland, Crown Court, behind the Fortune Theatre in Covent
\nGarden at 2.30pm the first Saturday of each month. There is
\nno London meeting in August, but we will be back in
\nSeptember. For more information, you can contact the
\nGlobetrotters Info line on +44 (0) 20 8674 6229, or visit
\nthe website:<\/i><\/b> www.globetrotters.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

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