Hello all, Welcome to June and the inescapable football World Cup being held in South Africa. I realise that football isnÂ’t enjoyed by everyone, but personally I envy all those who are out there enjoying different parts of South Africa and mixing with fans from around the world. Despite its troubled history and its various…

Lois Pryce : Adventure motorcyclist Lois returned to the club to recount her latest exciting journey…”Red Tape & White Knuckles”. In a detail filled talk, Lois held us riveted with tales of bureaucratic border nightmares, roads that were little better than rivers, minefields and near culture shock at every corner ! She also filled us…

The meeting of Chester Globetrotters on the 22nd of May was again well attended and we had two very interesting speakers on that day. First Barbara Dickinson spoke about Kiev in Ukraine, she told us about the impressive buildings and squares of the city where people parade and get together. Barbara visits Kiev on a…

For information on Ontario meetings, please contact Svatka Hermanek: shermanek@schulich.yorku.ca or Bruce Weber: tel. 416-203-0911 or Paul Webb: tel. 416-694-8259. The Ontario branch meetings are held on the third Friday of January, March, May, September and November. Usually at the Woodsworth Co-op, Penthouse, 133, Wilton Street in downtown Toronto at 8.00 p.m.

I am currently working with Wigwam Press to promote Due South, a reportage of the worldÂ’s first helicopter flight from the North to the South Poles, documented with images taken by award-winning photographer Joanna Vestey who accompanied/co-piloted the helicopter alongside her husband, famed adventurer Steve Brooks, on the AmericaÂ’s length of the journey (from Alaska…