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. 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.

Big Red Barn Ent. in Vancouver, Canada, are presently in post production on a documentary called “Bikes on Ice”, where they sent a small digi-cam along with a team of 3 arctic cyclists to the Yukon and Alaska. They documented their journey – in journal style – they successfully retraced the bicycle journey from Dawson…

The Texas Branch of the Globetrotters Club will meet Saturday 14th June 2003 at the New Braunfels Public Library – note back to old location. This month’s meeting will feature a Magical Mystery slide show of Europe presented by Chris and Julie. It was such a big hit at the May meeting we are doing…

Win a Frommer’s guidebook on Australia 2003. See www.frommers.com for info on Frommer’s guidebooks. Some people have said the quiz is difficult, we say do some research; try google.com or Ask Jeeves, if you need help with the answers. The winner of last month's Frommer’s Guide to Seattle is Tom Calvert. Please let the Beetle…

The airport is located some 15 miles (24 km) away from Dallas and 18 miles (29 km) away from Fort Worth. There are four terminals: Terminal A is for American/American Eagle flights. Terminal B serves America West, American, Continental, United, US Airways and most non-US airlines. Terminal C is for American Airlines. Terminal E is…

How many places on earth have you been to that offer so many interesting surprises? Papua New Guinea (PNG in short,) situated north of Australia and east of Indonesia on the island of New Guinea offers a myriad of surprises which come as culture shock for the cultural and adventure tourists. The Highlands of Papua…

The Mälar Valley in Sweden has some of Europe’s most beautiful scenery, with unspoilt forests, lakes and rivers where you can get away from crowds, traffic and all the other pressures of the modern world. Lake Mälaren is the third biggest lake in Sweden and stretches from the capital, Stockholm to around 150 kilometres to…

Nicaragua was colonised by the Spanish and has the old colonial buildings and cobbled streets to show; it has the oldest cathedral in Central America, and Granada is reputed to be the oldest city on the western hemisphere. Nicaragua has also had more than its share of destruction through earthquakes and revolutions. Managua, the capital…

The Santorini Ferry or as it is lovingly called Mama Tanzania, is one of those amazing things that can only be found in Tanzania. This boat is an experience in itself. The Santorini ferry is a 1960’s Greek cruiser and is run by a Greek Crew. It is in good nick for its age and…

We had easyJet (which spawned low cost imitators including Ryanair) and now easyCruise is coming our way in 2004. Not many people know that the low cost pile ‘em high and give them crap so called low cost airlines was started by the serial entrepreneurial Stelios Haji-Ioannou. Now, Stelios, as he likes to be known,…