For information on Ontario meetings, please contact Svatka Hermanek: shermane@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 Old York Tower, 85 Esplanade (It is at the south-east corner of Church & Esplanade – 2 blocks…

There are so many things to see and do in Istanbul, it is the most enchanting city. One of the best trips that the Beetle made was a trip up the Bosphorus. The Bosphorus is a strait of water separating the European and the Asian parts of Istanbul. It is 35 km (20 miles) long…

Fancy a romantic trans-Atlantic cruise with your sweetheart? How about a nice, relaxing voyage where you row 16 hours a day for 60 days, eat lukewarm freeze-dried food, roll your vessel upside down four times, and fend off the amorous advances of a 60-foot whale? Meet Liz O’Keeffe and Richard Mayon-White, two British adventurers (see…

The Cayman Islands, nestled in the temperate and scenic Caribbean, are a paradise retreat for celebrities and vacation travellers across the world. Three English- speaking islands, Grand Cayman and its sister islands, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac, are small communities just an hour south of Miami secluded in the pristine Caribbean Sea. Local weather is…

Cascais is a great weekend break from the UK. There are several airlines that fly to Lisbon, including EasyJet, Monarch, British Airways and Monarch. From Lisbon airport, it is a fifty minute bus journey on the Aerobus, costing just 8.50 euros to Estoril or Cascais. Cascais is 6.5km (4 miles) W of Estoril and 61km…

There is only one airport in Barcelona city, commonly known by the locals as L’Aeroport del Prat. Barcelona Airport is located 12 kilometres south-east of Barcelona city centre and 3km from Barcelona’s harbour (one of the most important in the Mediterranean Sea). There are a few ways you can get from Barcelona Airport to the…

Karen (see photo left) is a London based artist and architect whose passion is sketching and painting life around her, in her annotated, watercolour sketchbook diaries. Karen says, “This might be in the bustle of a market, on the top of a cathedral or down in a wine cellar, the middle of a city or…

Santiniketan is a small town near Bolpur in the Birbhum district of West Bengal, India, and approximately 180 kilometres north of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). It was made famous by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, whose vision became what is now a university town (Visva-Bharati University ) that attracts thousands of visitors each year. Santiniketan is a…

World’s Largest Subway Systems (by rider ship) City Date system completed Number of riders (year) Length (km) Moscow 1935 3.2 bil (1997) 340 Tokyo 1927 2.6 bil (1997/98) 281+ Seoul 1974 1.4 bil (1993) 278+ Mexico City 1969 1.4 bil (1996) 202 New York City 1904 1.3 bil (2001) 371 Paris 1900 1.2 bil(1998) 211…

The South American Explorers Club are looking for new volunteers and interns in their Buenos Aires Clubhouse as they are expanding the services they offer. There are many exciting volunteer opportunities available for adventurous travellers in the Southern Cone. While Buenos Aires has razzle-dazzle nightlife and neighbourhoods made for shopping and exploring, take some time…