{"id":1987,"date":"2005-05-27T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/2005\/05\/27\/meeting-news-from-london-15\/"},"modified":"2018-01-02T07:29:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T07:29:19","slug":"meeting-news-from-london-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/meeting-news-from-london-15.html","title":{"rendered":"Meeting News from London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our first speaker was <strong>Denise Heywood<\/strong>, who stepped in at short notice, and gave a talk titled Bombay to Borobudur. Denise took us on a journey from Bollywood in India to Raffles hotel in Singapore, we saw pictures of saris, flowers, markets and Christian cathedrals. Denise finished with the tale of Mr Raffles who the hotel is named after and who discovered the Borobudur temple lost in the jungle<\/p>\n<p>After the break <strong>Tim Burford<\/strong> gave a talk on Alaska, a journey of 2300 miles along the Alaska Highway. Tim took us from Vancouver, at the start of the Canadian Pacific railway and then across the White Pass, visiting gold rush towns on steam engines over trestle bridges and glaciers and old mines.<\/p>\n<p>\n Forthcoming London meetings:\n <\/p>\n<p>Saturday 2nd July &#8211; 3.00 pm &#8211; Concert Artistes Association,20 Bedford Street,Covent Garden, London WC2<\/p>\n<p><strong>NB &#8211; change of meeting place and time for July and September.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n This is the last meeting before the August break, when we&#039;ll be<br \/>\n back in September. There will be an examination of Members Slides<br \/>\n comprising eight mini-presentations from Globetrotters members.\n <\/p>\n<p>There is no London meeting in August, but<br \/>\n we will be back in September. For more information, you can contact<br \/>\n the Globetrotters Info line on +44 (0) 20 8674 6229, or visit the<br \/>\n website: <a href=\"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/local-meetings\/london-meetings.html\">www.globetrotters.co.uk<\/a>\n <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first speaker was Denise Heywood, who stepped in at short notice, and gave a talk titled Bombay to Borobudur. 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