Hello all, time for another round up of the latest articles, information and interesting anecdotes I received lately. As you will read, stalwarts Mac & Tony Annis are back with adventures from their adventurous younger days… Also we have Doreen Tayler recounting the first leg of her GT funded independent adventure – see the section…

Martin Featherstone: Hyenas Ate My Water Container! Return to the London branch of one of our most popular speakers…this time leading us through his adventures in East Africa and in particular Tanzania. As many of you already know Martin has lively, unique style of presenting…deliberately cheeky & yet very knowledgeable about all his subjects. As…

Jeanie Copland: continuing her odyssey through South America. Jeanie looped through the eastern side of the country, learning Spanish along the way, heading into the silver mines at Potosi and complete her circle via Brazil & Rio de Janiero. Jacqui Trotter: Fellow Committee member and all round club stalwart Jacqui completed her own journey through…

The next meeting is on the Saturday 22th May at the Grosvenor Museum at the usual time of 1.0pm meeting for a 1.30pm start. There will be two lectures, the first on the Ukraine given by Barbara Dickinson, followed by refreshments then a talk by Dan Bachmann on the forgotten tribes of Karamojong people in…

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.

An online device that helps travellers find out whether they might be at risk of potentially fatal Tick Borne Encephalitis (TBE) in Europe is now available at the Tick Alert website (www.tickalert.org). The ‘TBE Travel CheckÂ’ takes less than a minute to complete and asks users a sequence of simple questions about where they are…