{"id":2893,"date":"2009-09-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/2009\/09\/15\/welcome-to-enewsletter-september-2009\/"},"modified":"2023-12-10T12:45:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T12:45:58","slug":"welcome-to-enewsletter-september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/welcome-to-enewsletter-september-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Welcome   to eNewsletter September 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello all,<\/p>\n<p>Now that we\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161&rsquo;re into a new season of the London Globetrotter\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161&rsquo;s branch meetings, its time for quite a catch up as there\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161&rsquo;s plenty happening travel wise at the moment. In the articles below you can see who our first speakers were at the London September meeting, you can enjoy feedback readers, you can enter a competition, you can learn more about the Cook Islands and Mac takes us on a shopping trip for those on a budget ! You can also log on to the club\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161&rsquo;s web site, <a href=\"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/local-meetings\/london-meetings.html\">www.globetrotters.co.uk<\/a>, to discover the forthcoming program of speakers in 2009\/2010. <\/p>\n<p><b>Hot off the press &#8211; <\/b> for those of you that might be interested &amp; inspired there are two items of news regarding round the world cyclist Mark Beaumont. The first is that Mark is off on a new adventure\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161&hellip;this time he\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161&rsquo;s journeying across the Americas \u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161&ndash;see <a href=\"https:\/\/markbeaumontonline.com\/\">http:\/\/www.markbeaumontonline.com\/<\/a> for details. And secondly it seems that Mark no longer holds the record for cycling round the world\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161&hellip;Londoner James Bowthorpe has claimed that honour \u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161&ndash; see <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/london\/8264580.stm\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/london\/8264580.stm<\/a> for further details !<\/p>\n<p><b>That\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161&rsquo;s all for now as I\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161&rsquo;m trying to get ready for a brief trip to south west France \u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161&ndash; we\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161&rsquo;re off looking for some late autumn sun and a chance to ride mountain bikes in new surroundings. I\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161&rsquo;ll see you in October, hopefully with some interesting tales &amp; no mishaps. 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