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Globetrotters meeting Saturday 2nd<\/sup> November
\n2002 By Padmassana<\/b><\/p>\n

Our first talk was from James Greenwood<\/b> and was entitled Globetrot
\non Horseback<\/i>. James’ round the world journey took him ten years to
\ncomplete. His slides began in Argentina and then north into Bolivia, where
\nhostel (or should that be hostile?)<\/i> owners lock their guests in their
\nrooms at night, not to protect them, but to ensure that they pay for their
\naccommodation the next morning. And in James’ case without shooing out
\nthe various sheep, chickens and cats that were already in the room. James was
\nintroduced to Horse soup that is actually made of beef, but which gets its name
\nfrom the way the meat is transported and preserved. James’ photos of
\nPotosi included stalls selling dynamite and other explosives, he told us how he
\nhad bought some and gone up the hill to “blow up” a rock, which
\nresulted in the taxi that had taken him up there being showered with rock from
\nhis explosion!<\/p>\n

Fitting such a long journey into a 45-minute talk is not easy so we jumped
\nacross the Pacific to Japan. The Japanese authorities had actively tried to
\ndiscourage James’ project, but with some help from a local Mr Big James
\nobtained a horse in the shadow of Mt Fuji and was able to explore Japan. We
\ncrossed to India where James’ bought a black horse with an even blacker
\ntemperament. The horse spent the first 3 days trying to injure James, but once
\nit worked out James was on his side he became very protective of James, to the
\nextent that when James was struck down with heat stroke, the horse
\nwouldn’t let anyone through the door to attend to him and resulted in his
\nrescuers having to break into to the back of the building. After India it was
\ninto Pakistan and into munition strewn Afghanistan, where he had to travel with
\na Kalashnikov carrying guard. The fantastic mountain views making up for the
\ninconvenience. James’ Iranian visa was only for 2 days, but he managed to
\nstring this out to 6 months! James’ story continued westwards into Turkey
\nand southern Europe. His ride through the Champagne region of France was
\nreminiscent of Afghanistan, but this time he and his horse were trying to avoid
\nmunitions from the first world war, that had been unearthed by local farmers
\nand dumped on roadside verges. After ten years James arrived back to Gloucester
\nand his waiting family.<\/p>\n

Our second speaker was Peter Hutchison<\/b> whose talk was entitled–
\nAcross the great<\/i> South American watershed<\/i>. Peter’s journey to
\nthe previously unexplored Parapeti river in southern Bolivia was funded by a
\ngrant from the Winston Churchill Trust. When Peter and his group reached the
\nriver they found large areas of it were only navigable by pulling the canoes
\nalong. It was too shallow to paddle; on day one disaster struck as one canoe
\nhit a tree stump and was so badly damaged they had to return to the nearest
\ntown for repairs. To compound the early bad luck their expedition medic became
\nill and had to return home. But they battled on, having to rely on a GPS for
\nnavigation as the maps they had were found to be wildly inaccurate. The river
\nwound its way in places through deep undergrowth, hard work chopping their way
\nthough. They also had to contend with mosquitoes and tarantulas; they were
\nforced to dress as for a winter trip covering every piece of exposed flesh to
\navoid being bitten.<\/p>\n

Peter and his team managed to paddle their canoes to the to the Kaa Iya del
\nGran Chaco National Park and to their final destination of Quimome. The trip
\ntook two months to complete and they were the first people to descend the
\nParapeti river, a tributary of the Amazon. While in Quimome Peter hired a light
\naircraft to get an aerial view of the trip they had just completed. A hard trip
\nthat won’t be featuring in any travel agents’ brochures in the near
\nfuture!<\/p>\n

London meetings are held at The Church of Scotland, Crown Court, behind the
\nFortune Theatre in Covent Garden at 2.30 pm the first Saturday of each month.
\nThere is no London meeting in August. For more information, you can contact the
\nGlobetrotter Info line on +44 (0) 20 8674 6229, or visit the website: www.globetrotters.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

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