Category Archives: Local Meetings

London Meetings, Saturday July 4, 2015

This month we have:

  • Members Slides : Around the world in eighty minutes. 10 presentations of 10 slides

    This month we have a fast paced journey around the Globe..

    Speaking in the first half we have


    1. Simon Banks – Finding a coffee in Salt Lake City
    2. Francesca Jaggs – Nepal (Paintings)
    3. David Shamash – Spanish holiday
    4. Deanna Annis – Sarawak
    5. Gavin Fernandes – Dubrovnik, Croatia


    Then after the Coffee/Tea Break

    1. Dan Bachmann – Wadi Rum, Jordan
    2. Jean Chappell – Cuba
    3. Isabell Hennig – Around the world in 10 images
    4. Marion Bull – Opal mining in South Australia
    5. Dick Curtis – Dublin – no Molly Malone in sight


    Reserves

    1. Jacqui Trotter – Amsterdam for an evening

London branch meetings are held at The Church of Scotland, Crown Court, behind the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden the first Saturday of each month, unless there is a UK public holiday that weekend.

Admission costs, £3 for Members and £6.00 Non-members. You do not need to be a member to attend, and we do not sell advanced tickets, please just come on the day, the doors open at 2:15pm and the program starts around 2:30pm with each talk lasting approximately 40 minutes.

There is no London meeting in August, but we start afresh each September.

If you would like to keep up to date with what’s happening at the Globetrotters London meetings and to be sent email reminders prior to the meeting, please sign up here.

London Meetings, Saturday August 1, 2015

There is no meeting this month.

London branch meetings are held at The Church of Scotland, Crown Court, behind the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden the first Saturday of each month, unless there is a UK public holiday that weekend.

Admission costs, £3 for Members and £6.00 Non-members. You do not need to be a member to attend, and we do not sell advanced tickets, please just come on the day, the doors open at 2:15pm and the program starts around 2:30pm with each talk lasting approximately 40 minutes.

There is no London meeting in August, but we start afresh each September.

If you would like to keep up to date with what’s happening at the Globetrotters London meetings and to be sent email reminders prior to the meeting, please sign up here.

London Meetings, Saturday September 5, 2015

Speaking this month we have:

  1. Kevin Brackley – Mysore beyond the bubble – Part 2

    Exploring Mysore beyond the Ashtanga yoga bubble.

  2. Gavin A Fernandes – Summer in North America

    Cowboys in Calgary, a visit to Toronto and a trip around Vermont featuring drive-ins, trains and a horse ride in the Green Mountain State.

London branch meetings are held at The Church of Scotland, Crown Court, behind the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden the first Saturday of each month, unless there is a UK public holiday that weekend.

Admission costs, £3 for Members and £6.00 Non-members. You do not need to be a member to attend, and we do not sell advanced tickets, please just come on the day, the doors open at 2:15pm and the program starts around 2:30pm with each talk lasting approximately 40 minutes.

There is no London meeting in August, but we start afresh each September.

If you would like to keep up to date with what’s happening at the Globetrotters London meetings and to be sent email reminders prior to the meeting, please sign up here.

London Meetings, Saturday October 3, 2015

Speaking this month we have:

  1. Denise Heywood – Legend and Lustre: Jim Thompson and Thai Silk.
  2. Two Mini talks of 15-20 minutes.
    • Marion Bull – Devil’s Island.
    • Basia Filzek – Mongolia.

Our original speakers unfortunately had to cancel, we are currently updating the programme.

London branch meetings are held at The Church of Scotland, Crown Court, behind the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden the first Saturday of each month, unless there is a UK public holiday that weekend.

Admission costs, £3 for Members and £6.00 Non-members. You do not need to be a member to attend, and we do not sell advanced tickets, please just come on the day, the doors open at 2:15pm and the program starts around 2:30pm with each talk lasting approximately 40 minutes.

There is no London meeting in August, but we start afresh each September.

If you would like to keep up to date with what’s happening at the Globetrotters London meetings and to be sent email reminders prior to the meeting, please sign up here.

London Meetings, Saturday December 5, 2015

Speaking this month we have:

  1. Tomislav Perko – How to travel the world with almost no money?

    Tomislav Perko, 29, is a travel writer from Croatia. After a career of a stockbroker, broke because of the financial crisis, he hits the road and turns it into his home. He uses alternative ways of travelling – hitch-hiking, couch-surfing, working/volunteering, and manages to wander around the world with just a little bit of money in his pocket, meeting the most amazing people on the way.

    Five years later, he publishes a book “1000 Days of Spring” and goes around giving lectures about what it means to live on the road.

  2. Barbara Brooks – a quick trip across Canada & North America Barbara is talking about her recent over six months travelling trip across Canada & North America and meeting old friends and making new ones.
  • We are sorry the previously advertised talk by Jeanie Copland has had to be postponed. Jeanie Copland – on to Ho Chi Min (Trans Siberian Part 2).

    Having travelled the Trans Siberian railway from Moscow, via Mongolia, to Beijing; now continue on China’s railways to Nanning, crossing into Vietnam to connect with their reunification rail network – “adventuring en route!!”.

London branch meetings are held at The Church of Scotland, Crown Court, behind the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden the first Saturday of each month, unless there is a UK public holiday that weekend.

Admission costs, £3 for Members and £6.00 Non-members. You do not need to be a member to attend, and we do not sell advanced tickets, please just come on the day, the doors open at 2:15pm and the program starts around 2:30pm with each talk lasting approximately 40 minutes.

There is no London meeting in August, but we start afresh each September.

If you would like to keep up to date with what’s happening at the Globetrotters London meetings and to be sent email reminders prior to the meeting, please sign up here.

London Meetings, Saturday November 7, 2015

This month we have:

  1. AGM : The clubs AGM starts at 1:00pm (card carrying members only), then at 2.30 the meeting begins

Speaking this month we have:

  1. Ashley Butterfield – Tales of a bogieman: Round India on a railway carriage (100 times) The pleasures and perils of taking assorted foreign tourists round India by rail, before the advent of the internet /mobile phone / Tripadvisor etc.
  2. Andrew Lyndon-Skeggs – 1,300 km walk from Auch to Dieppe.

    Businessman, photographer, resident of a 38.5 meter barge in Paris, gardener, lecturer on the Jazz Age in France, alumni of Magdalene College Cambridge, one time conjuror and Master of the Cambridge University Drag Hunt, plus early internet entrepreneur, Andrew Lyndon-Skeggs has now also walked across France.

    The idea for the walk came out of the blue and, having never done a long walk before, Andrew Lyndon-Skeggs decided to walk right across France. Two criteria only; boundary to boundary, and avoid the Chemin de St Jacques de Compostello. Oh, and, South to North. Why not? At least it avoids looking into the sun all day. The talk will include personal reminiscences, photographs and (if you want to take it) practical advice. Much looking forward to meeting you all.

London branch meetings are held at The Church of Scotland, Crown Court, behind the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden the first Saturday of each month, unless there is a UK public holiday that weekend.

Admission costs, £3 for Members and £6.00 Non-members. You do not need to be a member to attend, and we do not sell advanced tickets, please just come on the day, the doors open at 2:15pm and the program starts around 2:30pm with each talk lasting approximately 40 minutes.

There is no London meeting in August, but we start afresh each September.

If you would like to keep up to date with what’s happening at the Globetrotters London meetings and to be sent email reminders prior to the meeting, please sign up here.

London Meetings, Saturday June 6, 2015

Speaking this month we have:

  1. Graham Hoskins – An Amazing, Life Changing Travel Adventure in Just Two Weeks?

    Graham Hoskins has made it his business to find life changing travel adventures by motorbike that he can do in just two weeks. From Russia, to the Middle East, Africa and all over Europe, he has ridden many thousands of miles in search of his dreams. He tells the stories of the adventures using the films he made and hopes to inspire others to explore the world in short bursts!For details of the ‘Motorbike Diaries’ adventure documentary TV series’s, please visit: www.motorbikediaries.co.uk

  2. Jacqui Trotter – Japan – three weeks in cherry blossom season

    Jacqui Trotter, Australian, a resident in the UK since 1988, (mostly) independent traveller, nurse and a Globetrotter Club member (since 1998), will be talking about her recent trip to Japan in ‘sakura’, cherry blossom season. Having a full time occupation means that trips so far away must pack a lot of things into a short time. While the ideal would be to dawdle and meander around, this trip is all about seeing as much as possible of this amazing land in the thee weeks available. Japan Rail Pass in hand, a personal hotspot (to aid connection and compensate for the language gap), one small bag on wheels and camera, the trip begins…. and one cannot have too many photos of cherry blossoms!

London branch meetings are held at The Church of Scotland, Crown Court, behind the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden the first Saturday of each month, unless there is a UK public holiday that weekend.

Admission costs, £3 for Members and £6.00 Non-members. You do not need to be a member to attend, and we do not sell advanced tickets, please just come on the day, the doors open at 2:15pm and the program starts around 2:30pm with each talk lasting approximately 40 minutes.

There is no London meeting in August, but we start afresh each September.

If you would like to keep up to date with what’s happening at the Globetrotters London meetings and to be sent email reminders prior to the meeting, please sign up here.

Toronto meetings, Friday, Mar 20, 2015

“Cruising the World: Hong Kong, Cape Town,  Fort Lauderdale”       by Anna Dohler

Toronto flyer Mar 2015

For information on Ontario meetings, please contact Svatka : hermaneks@yahoo.ca or Bruce : bruceaweber@hotmail.com / tel. 416-203-0911. Meetings and travel presentations are held on the 3rd Friday in January, March, May (4th Friday), September and November at 8.00 p.m at Old York Tower, 85 The Esplanade ( corner of the Esplanade & Church St.) – two blocks east of the Union station. Public parking garage is at the foot of Church Street right next to the Old York Tower.

Toronto meetings, Friday, Jan 16, 2015

Hi all:

Toronto GT’s meet Friday, January 16; 8:00 p.m. at Old York Tower, 85 The Esplanade, Toronto.

  • Bruce and Rosy Findlay will be showing “Island of Newfoundland–a very special place”. Hope to see you there.

Bruce Weber, 3 Oneida Ave., Toronto (Island), ON M5J 2E2; 416 203-0911.

p.s. Please feel free to copy the flyer and post it in your apt. building or wherever. Bruce

Plyer
Plyer

For information on Ontario meetings, please contact Svatka : hermaneks@yahoo.ca or Bruce : bruceaweber@hotmail.com / tel. 416-203-0911. Meetings and travel presentations are held on the 3rd Friday in January, March, May (4th Friday), September and November at 8.00 p.m at Old York Tower, 85 The Esplanade ( corner of the Esplanade & Church St.) – two blocks east of the Union station. Public parking garage is at the foot of Church Street right next to the Old York Tower.

Toronto meetings, Friday, May 22, 2015

“Memories of Bangladesh… and Saudi… and…. by Nadam Iqbal and Shadab Shahrokh Hai

Flyer
flyer

For information on Ontario meetings, please contact Svatka : hermaneks@yahoo.ca or Bruce : bruceaweber@hotmail.com / tel. 416-203-0911. Meetings and travel presentations are held on the 3rd Friday in January, March, May (4th Friday), September and November at 8.00 p.m at Old York Tower, 85 The Esplanade ( corner of the Esplanade & Church St.) – two blocks east of the Union station. Public parking garage is at the foot of Church Street right next to the Old York Tower.