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Travelling in Tibetan Buddhist Spiti with Carol and Martin: High Altitude Adventure in the Indian Himalayas
Part One: We had listened with excitement to our friend’s description of his travels in the tribal regions of Kinnaur and Spiti, in the North Indian State of Himachal Pradesh. Bordering Tibet, these areas had only recently been opened to foreigners. The following May we set off from Goa, where we spend our winters, and…
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Airline News
Courtney Love was arrested at London's Heathrow Airport earlier this month after accusations of verbally abusing Virgin crewmembers on a flight from Los Angeles. As she left Heathrow's police station Love said: “I cussed at a lady – my daughter always said I had a potty mouth.” She was later released with a caution for…
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MEETING NEWS
Meeting news from our branches around the world.
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Does a Stopover Count as a Visit to a Country?
Nick from London says that he thinks that it does not really count if you have only been to the inside of an airport in a particular country, though others may argue this point. There are other brief visits I have made to countries. For instance, a couple of years ago I was holidaying in…
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Drop in Visitors To Malaysia
A recent report in Cyber Diver News says that tourists and scuba diver numbers have fallen by almost a third to between 300,000 and 100,000 a month. This is serious stuff for Malaysia as tourism is the country’s second largest earner of foreign exchange. The fall in numbers was triggered by the Bali bombing but…
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Meeting News from London
Globetrotters meeting on 1st February by Padmassana David Abram was up first and gave us a very interesting talk on Trekking in Corsica. David has spent long periods in Corsica in order to research his Trailblazer guidebook. He told us that the cheapest way to get there is to take a No-Frills cheap flight to…
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A Round the World Trip by Stephen Petter in the UK
My partner and I (aged 55 and 65) went RTW for 12 months to April 2002. She has written a book on it but is looking for a publisher. I went to internet cafes to maintain a long journal. So rather than travellers' tales here are some notes on how we did it. The RTW…
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Absolutely True!
Sent in by Bretislav in the Czech Republic, spotted on cbc.ca ST. JOHN'S – A woman who fell asleep on a flight to Newfoundland and wound up in England has been offered 15,000 bonus aeroplan miles by the airline. Air Canada apologized to Catherine Coyle late Monday and offered her the air miles for her…
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Meeting News from New York
Coming up: Saturday 1st March Seeds of Peace is concerned with sowing the seeds of peace among children who have grown up with the horror of war. They will be back for an encore presentation, following their first visit to the New York branch of the Globetrotters Club on January 4, 2003. Speaking will be:…
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Visiting Costa Del Sol in February- Get Winter Relief by Fred Desrosiers
February is a slow month in the Costa Del Sol. This is why you can get some of the best deals during that month. The temperature goes from 16-10 degrees Celsius. So you can still be in shorts. I recently just got back from Costa Del Sol. I took advantage of the airline price war…
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