A description of two journeys to the Horn of Africa in 2018 and 2019, taking in Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somaliland.Encounters along the way include Lucy, a Chinese railway, one of the lowest places on earth, a camel market, hyena feeding, a Mig fighter and a cheetah sanctuary
David Redford is a retired hospital doctor who has fed his wanderlust by adding independent journeys to visits to low income countries on behalf of NGOs working in the field of maternal health.
2nd: Tharik Hussain – Looking for Muslim Europe
In 2016, following in the footsteps of the 17th century Ottoman traveller, Evliya Celebi, Tharik Hussain and his family went on a road trip across the Western Balkans in search of an indigenous Muslim Europe.
The result is his highly-acclaimed book, Minarets in the Mountains; A Journey into Muslim Europe, which was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Award.
In this talk, Hussain explains why he had to ‘search’ for a Muslim Europe that has actually been there since the 8th century and in the process helps us better understand why Europe remains so uncomfortable with its Muslim self.
Doors open at 14:00 GMT in London, a condition of entry is proof of vaccination or a COVID lateral flow test within 48 hours or a positive PCR within 90 days having completed any required isolation, the easiest way of showing this is with the NHS Covid Pass which lets you show your COVID-19 status in a secure way. We will be carrying out temperature checks and asking visitors to confirm they do not have any symptoms on arrival.
We would ask that anyone with symptoms or who needs to isolate participates via zoom.
Last month meeting was very successful, the hall is well ventilated and we had no cases following the meeting.
£3 for members to cover our costs. Members will be emailed a ticket code link allowing access to this option or you can access it from themembers area.
£6 for non-members, non-members may join the club for £12 per year and get this and future meetings at members rate for £12, members can also watch the 3 previous online talks, members also receive Globe our members magazine and our annual members calendar, why not join and enter your pictures.
a catch up to watch later will be available to members and non-member ticket holders.
AGM: The clubs AGM starts at 12:00 pm (card carrying members only), then at 2.30 pm the meeting begins
Speaking at 2.30 pm we have: (Get Tickets)
1st Christopher Forse – Thirty Years of Travel in China.
Chris Forse travelled extensively through China from a time when only one city was open to foreigners, and all trips were officially sanctioned group tours. In time travel became as free as almost anywhere on earth. Chris travelled to remote regions (Yunnan, Xinjiang, Tibet) and through distant borders into Siberia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Nepal and Kyrgyzstan, experiencing adventures and culture shock, and breathtaking landscapes. Most of all Chris witnessed a civilizational transformation unparalleled in history, while accumulating treasured memories.
Chris was a teacher and resident of Hong Kong 1974-2008. He was also a part time columnist and radio panellist. Today he is chairman of one of the UK’s largest U3As.. He enjoys self publishing and is writing a 300 page illustrated volume of his travels in the USA over five decades.
2nd Anthony Britton – Motorcycling to Greece via Montenegro and Albania -August 2022.
As a welcome post-covId challenge, Anthony set out with a small tent to motorcycle to Greece. A meander through France, Germany Austria and Italy was followed by a ride along the entire length of the Adriatic coast through Montenegro and Albania. When someone called it ‘Mad but cool’ he said that’s exactly what attracted him to the idea!
The previously advertised talk by Simon and Lisa Thomas – 2 Ride The World.has had to be postponed due to the train strike.
Date & Time:
Saturday, November 5, 2022
AGM Doors open at 12.00 noon.
Doors open at 14:00 GMT in London for the main meeting.
We would ask that anyone with symptoms or who needs to isolate participates via zoom.
£3 for members to cover our costs. Members will be emailed a ticket code link allowing access to this option or you can access it from the members area.
£6 for non-members, non-members may join the club for £12 per year and get this and future meetings at members rate for £12, members can also watch the 3 previous online talks, members also receive Globe our members magazine and our annual members calendar, why not join and enter your pictures.
a catch up to watch later will be available to members and non-member ticket holders.
Boxing Day! What’s that all about? And why do we eat turkey and mince pies during the festive season? If you think we have our funny ways, how about the town where running in your red underwear on New Year’s Day is a custom, or the place where you celebrate the season by pooing?
2nd Matt Bishop and Reece Gilkes, the sidecar guys – Siberia.
Matt Bishop and Reece Gilkes are ‘The Sidecar Guys’. They are called ‘The Sidecar Guys’ as they hold the very niche Guinness World Record for the longest journey by scooter and sidecar.
During a 15 month trip they travelled for 34,000 miles through 35 countries and 5 continents to successfully circumnavigate the globe by scooter and sidecar.
Matt and Reece will be talking about the Siberia portion of their around the world journey by scooter and sidecar.
They still do all sorts of different 3 wheeled adventures and recently completed a 10 day trip from Seattle to Los Angeles on a Ural motorcycle travelling across the Idaho, Nevada and California Back Country Discovery Route.
They run a sidecar experience centre in the UK and are also the hosts of The Armchair Adventure Festival, a festival based in the UK with the sole focus of celebrating any kind of adventure travel.
Find out more at: https://asseenfromthesidecar.org/
a recording to watch later will be available to members and non-member ticket holders.
Please reserve seats in the hall in advance as this speeds up entry at the meeting and allows us to plan staffing, we may charge more for unreserved tickets.
Sheila Robinson one of our Calendar 2023 competition winners is speaking about Georgia and Armenia which was their last pre-Covid jaunt!
Sheila Robinson is a retired Market Researcher who has always loved travelling since the 1970s when my husband and I spent 18 months travelling overland to India and SE Asia to more recent trips in Europe, Asia and North Africa.
2nd: Justyna Hellebrand – Seven Weddings Around the World in Under a Year
Justyna was invited to no less than 7 weddings in 12 months! They took place in Vietnam, South Africa, Poland, Iran, India, United Arab Emirates and Brunei. This gave her a good excuse to visit those countries so she will be sharing with you some of her travels and adventures during that period.
Justyna has been traveling the world extensively since she was 16 and still has not seen it all!
Justyna devoted over 16 years of her life to higher education in various fields and is still planning to study more when the correct opportunity arises.
Justyna has many interests among others: world/folk music, herbalism, origami, beekeeping and in recent years modern art aiming at saving the world from rubbish – making art from all sorts of recycled materials!
Justyna is also a polyglot and fluent in more than 2😀 languages and currently (over the past 10 years 😅) learning Hindi and Turkish.
Justyna treats solo travelling as a distraction from everyday life, not as a form of making money out of her adventurous trips or breaking any world records. With time passing fast she also speeds up her travels and tries to see as much as possible until life comes to an end.
Jeanie Copland’s talk has been postponed until February due to the rail strike.
By tradition we follow this meeting with a New Year Party post-meeting – everyone is invited to bring food and wine or soft drinks (we are not allowed beer or spirits) and participate! (Please RSVP if you will be coming to the party.)
Date & Time:
Saturday, January 7, 2023.
Doors open at 14:00 GMT in London for people with reservations, 14:20 for general entry.
a recording to watch later will be available to members and non-member ticket holders.
Please reserve seats in the hall in advance as this speeds up entry at the meeting and allows us to plan staffing, we may charge more for unreserved tickets.
Doors open at 1pm for 1:30pm start until 4:00pm, 25-27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD. Entrance fee £4 (£3 Globetrotters members). We recommend you arrive early. For more info contact Hanna on 01244 383392 or Eve on 01606 301762
£3 for members to cover our costs. Members will be emailed a ticket code link allowing access to this option or you can access it from themembers area.
£6 for non-members, non-members may join the club for £12 per year and get this and future meetings at members rate for £12, members can also watch the 3 previous online talks, members also receive Globe our members magazine and our annual members calendar, why not join and enter your pictures.
a recording to watch later will be available to members and non-member ticket holders.
Enter five images if you send some pictures in before the 6th August 2022
You are invited to submit your best travel images for consideration to be included in the next Club calendar.
Not to be scuppered by a global pandemic, the search for images for next year’s Club Calendar will go ahead…
All members are invited to submit their best travel pictures for possible inclusion in the 2023 Globetrotters Club Calendar.
As always, there is no limit on the age of the photograph (as many images remain ‘timeless’) so why not trawl through your archive of images of memorable travels gone by and submit a favourite picture to inspire others for when we can travel freely again?
Or maybe you’ve been making pictures where you live or happened to be grounded during lockdown and have seen what is familiar to you in a different light? Remember, one person’s home is another’s travel destination – can you give it a ‘sense of place’?
If you haven’t entered before, why not give it a go this year? If you have submitted pictures in previous years but been unsuccessful so far, do try again – you may have got closer to the shortlist than you think!
The rules are pretty much the same as in previous years – send up to three images that show the beauty of a destination and evoke a feeling of wanderlust, inspiring others to travel.
Entries will be judged anonymously by a panel of judges from the committee – only the editor will know the identity of the photographer until the final images have been chosen. Pictures will only be used for the calendar and in Globetrotters Club publications (Globe magazine, the e-newsletter, the website/social media) to promote the calendar and the Club.
There will shortly be a link on the website to check these rules again and from which to enter directly but alternatively you can email your entries to calendar@globetrotters.co.uk as attachments. Please include your membership number and a short caption that includes where and when the photo was taken.
Please send your pictures as high resolution jpeg files suitable for printing as an A5 image. This is approximately 210mm x 150mm (a 7:5 aspect ratio) and images should be at least 2500 pixels on the longest side.
For uniformity in the design of the calendar, please choose images of an appropriate format – landscape only, portrait will not be considered. Colour only, no B&W please. Square format, 3:2, 4:3 and others may be submitted but they will be judged by the composition you present and their suitability for the calendar once cropped.
The images are printed ‘full bleed’ (to the edges of the paper with no border) so please ensure that any detail included in your composition doesn’t fall towards the edges of your picture – if in doubt, send a slightly wider crop.
The closing date for entries is 19th September 2022, so please make sure that your membership is valid on this day and is kept current until judging has been completed. (You can join/renew easily on the Globetrotters website). All current members will receive a copy of the calendar as part of their membership when it is printed (hopefully in time for the Club meetings before Christmas). Any member whose picture gets used will receive a second copy and additional copies will be available to buy at meetings or by post via the website.
Some tips for getting your image in the calendar… Think about the composition and focal point of the photograph as well as colour and texture. Make sure it’s sharp, straight and appropriately cropped if necessary.
You can submit up to three entries but only one per member may appear in the final publication, though all could be shortlisted for the final stages of judging – perhaps consider a range of subjects…
Although we’re looking for a picture that shows the beauty and appeal of a destination from your point of view, the image should also resonate with a larger audience. And remember – it’s for a calendar – could you look at it and enjoy it each day for a month?!
Best of luck!
Rules, terms and conditions
The closing date for entries is 19th September 2022, at 23:59 BST.
Entrants must be current club members.
Members may send a maximum of three images per entry.
Please ensure that your membership is valid when making your submissions and on the closing date is 19th September 2022, as it will need to be verified.
Please also ensure that your membership remains paid up until at least December 2022 as calendars will be sent out direct from the printers using a list of current members.
Pictures that were entered in previous years but were not chosen may be resubmitted but we would prefer to see something new!
Photos must be of sufficient technical quality to print at the required size.
There is no limit on when the pictures were taken, the photos do not need to be recent.
Photos will only be used by the Globetrotters Club for the purposes of the calendar, website, social media, Globe and the eNewsletter.
The Club reserves the right to reproduce pictures submitted for the calendar either in print or online. However, the Club will not sell any pictures on to a third party.
Pictures submitted remain the copyright of the photographer.
All images will be credited wherever possible. Pictures may be edited to suit design requirements, though we will endeavour to retain the photographer’s original composition as much as possible.
Joint members – resident at the same address – may enter individually. (If you do not both have membership cards please contact the membership secretary.)
All submissions must be the member’s own work. Please make sure that you’re the image owner and have full rights on the picture.
By entering, members will be deemed to have accepted and agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.
£3 for members to cover our costs. Members will be emailed a ticket code link allowing access to this option or you can access it from themembers area.
£6 for non-members, non-members may join the club for £12 per year and get this and future meetings at members rate for £12, members can also watch the 3 previous online talks, members also receive Globe our members magazine and our annual members calendar, why not join and enter your pictures.
a recording to watch later will be available to members and non-member ticket holders.
“From Shanghai to Xian: Futuristic and Ancient China” Speakers: Dr Emma Roberts
“Namibia” Speakers: Nicola Young and John Sunter
Doors open at 1pm for 1:30pm start until 4:00pm, 25-27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD. Entrance fee £4 (£3 Globetrotters members). We recommend you arrive early. For more info contact Hanna on 01244 383392 or Eve on 01606 301762
£3 for members to cover our costs. Members will be emailed a ticket code link allowing access to this option or you can access it from themembers area.
£6 for non-members, non-members may join the club for £12 per year and get this and future meetings at members rate for £12, members can also watch the 3 previous online talks, members also receive Globe our members magazine and our annual members calendar, why not join and enter your pictures.
a recording to watch later will be available to members and non-member ticket holders.
