{"id":15644,"date":"2011-03-12T09:44:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T09:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/?p=15644"},"modified":"2024-01-10T07:09:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T07:09:59","slug":"march-meeting-news-from-the-london-branch-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/march-meeting-news-from-the-london-branch-3.html","title":{"rendered":"March meeting news from the London branch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For an extra busy London branch meeting (courtesy of Jacqui&#8217;s superb organising efforts with the speakers recently me thinks) we had two contrasting &amp; excellent speakers:-<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Gimlette &#8211; Wild Coast Travels on South America&#8217;s Untamed Edge.<\/strong> Returning favourite John talked about travelling through the three Guyanas of north east South America&#8230;Guyana, Suriname &amp; French Guiana &#8211; a very unknown &amp; underdeveloped series of destinations.\u00a0 John&#8217;s knack as a traveller is get involved locally in all his destinations, in all aspects of society &amp; then recall his travels warmly and intelligently through books, radios &amp; talks\u00a0J\u00a0 His style is less &#8220;this is what I did !&#8221; and much more &#8220;come with me on a journey&#8221;.\u00a0 I hope that paints John in light that does him justice\u00a0J<\/p>\n<p>Read more about John &amp; his world at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johngimlette.com\/\">http:\/\/www.johngimlette.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sarah Outen &#8211; A Dip in the Ocean.<\/strong> Sarah&#8217;s talk was so different in so many ways and yet equally entertaining.\u00a0 At twenty years old Sarah set of to fulfil a dream and grieve over the loss of her father &#8211; she rowed solo from Perth, Western Australia to Mauritius !\u00a0 Her recollection of 4000 miles of that epic ocean crossing held us rapt late into the afternoon &#8211; her mishaps, frailties &amp; doubts were exposed to the audience&#8230;but her story telling style made those seem core to her record breaking journey.\u00a0 I think back a long way to my first travels at a similar age, inter-railing around Europe, and wonder where Sarah found the courage &amp; determination&#8230;congratulations to you Sarah\u00a0J<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Sarah&#8217;s adventures, particularly her next epic, at\u00a0http:\/\/sarahouten.co.uk\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>The London branch&#8217;s future meetings are detailed at <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/local-meetings\/london-meetings\/london-meeting-programme.html\"><strong>London Meeting Programme<\/strong><\/a><strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>London<\/strong><strong> branch meetings are held at The Church of Scotland, Crown Court, behind the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden at 2.30pm the first Saturday of each month, unless there is a UK public holiday that weekend.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There is no London meeting in August, but we start afresh each September.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, contact the Globetrotters Info line on +44 (0) 20 7193 2586, or visit the web site: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/local-meetings.html\"><strong>https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/local-meetings.html<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For an extra busy London branch meeting (courtesy of Jacqui&#8217;s superb organising efforts with the speakers recently me thinks) we had two contrasting &amp; excellent speakers:- John Gimlette &#8211; Wild&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"css_class_manager_body_classes":"","css_class_manager_use_in_post_loop":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-15644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-main-article","tag-march-2011"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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