The Globetrotters Club would like to wish all our eNewsletter readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The eNewsletter will be returning in the early 2008, until then why not read some of our most popular articles from past issues. Murder and Horses by Daniel Wallace The Beetle Goes Diving in the Similan…

December 2007 London Meeting At our last London meeting before Christmas, we were treated to two excellent talks. David Waldman told us about his trip to visit the Nandi of the Rift Valley in Kenya. Inspired to visit by athletes such as Kip Keno, David wanted to discover why this pocket of Kenya has produced…

November 2007 London Meeting Our first speaker was Phil Koniotes who took us to southern Africa to see the vaired wildlife, particularly the bird life of the area. Phil and his wife Linda took in parts of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and Namibia on their trip. Phil explained that to see the animals and birds at…

October 2007 London Meeting The meeting was a full house to hear Globetrotters President Janet Street-Porter give this months opening talk, Janet called her talk “4 Trips in 40 minutes”, she began with Estonia, talking about the excellent and moving Occupation Museum in Tallin before exploring outside of the capital, to the beach resort of…

September 2007 Meeting Report Globetrotters new season began with a talk from Globie Jeanie Copland about Tanzania and her sponsored climb of Kilimanjaro. The first part of Jeanie’s talk showed us the sights including the migration across the Serengeti of Wildebeest and Zebra, the spectacular Victoria Falls and the Zanzibar music festival. Part 2 was…

July 2007 Meeting Report. As is the custom the July meeting was given over to “Members slides”, though in the 21st century the majority have gone digital. This year we didn’t quite manage to take in all continents, no talk on South America, but we still saw plenty of interesting places. Nick Preston set the…

June 2007 Meeting Report By Dan Creffield Juliet Coombe kicked off her very entertaining talk: Black magic: Be a Devil about her travels from South America to South East Asia in search of magic and mystery by pointing out how many supposedly ‘black magic’ customs and superstitions are often no more than practical remedies and…

May 2007 Meeting Report By Chitvari Tom Fremantle returned to Globetrotters in May to impart his travel philosophy and to share some inspirations for his journeys. His talk, Journeys in slow motion – lively tales of slow travel was a medley of his trips, including his bike ride from Swanbourne, UK (famous for its Norman…

April 2007 London meeting Despite the hot weather this months meeting was well attended, the members listened to two excellent talks. Our first speaker was Jessica Boyd who showed us the Zabbelan, or garbage collectors of Cairo. Originally this population of Coptic Christians, who live in an area north of Cairo’s Citadel collected rubbish to…