Or do you know someone who could benefit from a helping hand into the wider world?
What is the award?
Each year the club offers up to two £1,000 awards to give out for the best independent travel plan, as judged by the club’s Committee.
The deadline to receive applications for the next award is 31 May 2011.
See the legacy page on the club’s web site for more details, where you can review previous winners’ trips and/or apply with your plans for a totally independent, travel trip.
If your idea catches our eye we’ll take a closer look at what you’re proposing and give you feedback & maybe a helping hand on your journey of a lifetime !!
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Email The Ant at theant@globetrotters.co.uk with your travel experiences / hints & tips / questions. Your article should be approximately 1000 words, feature up to 3 or 4 jpeg photos and introduce yourself with a couple of sentences and a contact e-mail address.
For an extra busy London branch meeting (courtesy of Jacqui’s superb organising efforts with the speakers recently me thinks) we had two contrasting & excellent speakers:-
John Gimlette – Wild Coast Travels on South America’s Untamed Edge. Returning favourite John talked about travelling through the three Guyanas of north east South America…Guyana, Suriname & French Guiana – a very unknown & underdeveloped series of destinations. John’s knack as a traveller is get involved locally in all his destinations, in all aspects of society & then recall his travels warmly and intelligently through books, radios & talks J His style is less “this is what I did !” and much more “come with me on a journey”. I hope that paints John in light that does him justice J
Sarah Outen – A Dip in the Ocean. Sarah’s talk was so different in so many ways and yet equally entertaining. At twenty years old Sarah set of to fulfil a dream and grieve over the loss of her father – she rowed solo from Perth, Western Australia to Mauritius ! Her recollection of 4000 miles of that epic ocean crossing held us rapt late into the afternoon – her mishaps, frailties & doubts were exposed to the audience…but her story telling style made those seem core to her record breaking journey. I think back a long way to my first travels at a similar age, inter-railing around Europe, and wonder where Sarah found the courage & determination…congratulations to you Sarah J
London branch meetings are held at The Church of Scotland, Crown Court, behind the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden at 2.30pm the first Saturday of each month, unless there is a UK public holiday that weekend.
There is no London meeting in August, but we start afresh each September.
First of all we would like to thank everyone for a great turnout in January, it helps us greatly and gives us all new energy to continue!
Saturday the 19th of March is slowly getting closer and it looks set to be a great meeting again with two fantastic speakers and the usual refreshments in the break so that you all can have a chat over tea and biscuits.
CYCLING THROUGH EUROPE – helping kids in Nepal and Mexico, speaker Saul Soto
INDIA “A STEP BACK IN TIME” – following in the footsteps of Rudyard Kipling, speaker Doreen Taylor
Hope to see you there
Cheers
Hanna, Angela, Eve
The meeting is at The Grosvenor Museum, 25 – 27 Grosvener Street, Chester, CH1 2DD. Tickets £3 including refreshments.
Contact Angela, Hanna or Eve for further information of this & future events at Chester via email atchesterbranch@globetrotters.co.uk
This edition is a whirlwind catch up on a raft of articles, news & anecdotes. Since mid January this year I’ve been somewhat distracted – I’ve moved house and welcome my daughter into the world ! There is no doubt my priorities are changing quite rapidly as I realise the full nature of the changes that I’m part of, but travel remains a key part of my life and something I’m looking to share with said daughter 🙂
As to this edition – regulars Tony Annis & Mac are back with us, there’s a quite a few meetings from all branches to read about and there’s some items to make you smile I hope 🙂
What else is happening across the wider travel world?
A new year edges out of the wintery days and we have a raft of articles, news & anecdotes to recount for you…
Hot off the press – introducing the Globetrotters Club new President John Pilkington 🙂
John Pilkington, Picture courtesy of Tony Annis
John arrived at the London branch December meeting, expecting to renew a number of friendships & acquaintances and deliver his booked talk on travelling through the ‘Axis of Evil’.
However John left London with more than he bargained for – club members Jeanie Copland & Jacqui Trotter also invited him to become our President…and according to Tony Annis who was in the audience he “was enthusiastically endorsed by the whole audience”.
John’s involvement in the club has now come full circle, as he once helped make tea [during a meeting] for the club many years ago.
You will get to hear more from John over the coming months but like me I’m sure you’ll welcome him aboard & wish him luck !
Congratulations John 🙂
What else is happening across the wider travel world ?
· the Adventure Travel Show returns to London in January 2011, http://www.adventuretravellive.com/, where the club’s very own Dick Curtis will be organising a travel advice stand once more. Hopefully the volunteers can continue to help would be travellers make sense of all the possibilities the exhibitors highlight 🙂
If you don’t fancy volunteering you can still benefit from the club’s friendship with the show’s organisers…members can get a discounted entry to the show itself…simply the club’s Members’ Area on the web site or contact me for details via email.
· Hot on the heels follows London & Birmingham’s Destinations Travel shows – http://www.destinationsshow.com/, where more mainstream travel options get their airing as well
· I’ve also got news of another discount for club members – this time it’s courtesy of www.travelwritingworkshop.co.uk. Organiser Peter Carty is offering “…[for] the workshop…in central London…there is a discount of £10 for your members…the next workshops are January 29th and February 26th 2011″.
John Pilkington – A stroll through the axis of evil – Lebanon, Syria, Iraq & Iran
Photographer, documentary maker, traveller but above all brilliant lecturer on his travels around this wonderful world of ours and in doing so gave an excellent, entertaining slide show on his latest trip. “A Stroll Through The Axis Of Evil” A play on George Bush senior’s words of a few years ago…John’s route took us through the Euphrates, the Caucasus and the Valley of the Assassins to finish on the Persian Gulf.
To read more about John & his travels visit his web site at http://www.pilk.net/
Dick Curtis – It all started in Kashmir ….
Former London meetings organiser, Wasps rugby union number one fan & all round personable chap Dick took us back to an earlier point in his life and explained what first set him on his travels and his subsequent adventures in Kashmir. Many of the audience appreciated Dick’s standpoint and in listening to him, remembered their own experiences of independent travel…an excellent compliment to John’s engaging first half.
London branch meetings are held at The Church of Scotland, Crown Court, behind the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden at 2.30pm the first Saturday of each month, unless there is a UK public holiday that weekend.
There is no London meeting in August, but we start afresh each September.
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.
