Hello all, Here in London the nights are drawing to a darker close, earlier in the evening and despite a recent escape of mine to the Corsican sunshine, its probably time to start thinking of travels in 2011 and to listen to what our many Globetrotters & friends have been up to lately. The start…

Julia Massey Stewart : Through My Lens Julia Massey Stewart started taking a very interested audience through her approaches to photography by taking us on a journey through her world of travel. At the icy Lake Baikal in Siberia, Julia showed us her fascination of close ups, with ground level details of the ice itself…

The Talk by Liam D’Arcy Brown entitled the “The Emperor’s River” described the magnificent canal system of China running 1,776km from Hangzhou in the south to Beijing in the north. This unique journey by boat, foot and bus along waterway and dried canal bed, follows the history and development of this inland strategic waterway from…

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.

This article has been reproduced from the web site of Kerrville in Texas, USA & depicts one of founders in a nice, rounded manner. It is a fitting tribute that 60 plus years we’re still here in our idiosyncratic, independent way … still travelling J Thank you Norman for setting us on our way ……

We’re all too aware of the difficult time everyone’s facing: news of redundancies, a severe lack of new jobs and students unable to get into universities even if they’ve made the grade are a depressing reality. But these challenging times are creating a new, positive reality for many people, not least, people who seem a…