April 2003 Archives - eNewsletter

Free London Museums: Leighton House

April 27, 2003

Leighton House Art Gallery & Museum, the former home of the great nineteenth century classical painter Lord Leighton is now open to visitors as a mixture of stately home and

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So You Think You.re Well Travelled?

April 27, 2003

Here’s a little Beetle quiz based on airport codes. See how many you get right! Go on, have a guess! Which cities are served by airports with the following codes:

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MEETING NEWS

April 27, 2003

Meeting news from our branches around the world.

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Globetrotters Travel Award

April 27, 2003

Under 30? A member of Globetrotters Club? Interested in a £1,000 travel award? Know someone who is? We have £1,000 to award each year for five years for the best

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Have you got a tale to tell??

April 27, 2003

If you have a travellers tale that your aching to tell. Then why not visit the “Travel Sized Bites” section of the Website and share it with the world. Travel

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Meeting News from London

April 27, 2003

Globetrotters meeting on 5th April by Padmassana Our first speaker Thomas Bourne showed us slides of Chile, Patagonia, Antarctica and South Georgia. Thomas had spent his gap year on board

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What Counts As A Visit

April 27, 2003

Kevin from the UK wrote in to say: “I think it depends also on whether you need a visa to actually set foot in a country e.g. when I came

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Travel Quiz

April 27, 2003

Win a Frommer’s guidebook on Seattle 2003. See www.frommers.com for info on Frommer’s guidebooks. Some people have said the quiz is difficult, we say do some research; try google.com or

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Meeting News from New York "Ladakh: The last Shangri-la?"

April 27, 2003

“Ladakh: The last Shangri-la?” “In the forbidding terrain of the Himalayas, a robust people embellish their frugal lives with rich endowments of faith” (Thomas J. Abercrombie, National Geographic). Experience the

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Why Yoga is Like Travelling

April 27, 2003

Some thoughts by Padmassana, likening travel to yoga – or the other way round! He says: “When you travel you are thinking about what you are seeing, where you are

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Meeting News from Ontario

April 27, 2003

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. Meetings are held on the third Friday of January, March,

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Mediterranean Bookings Down

April 27, 2003

The tourism industry has been heavily hit by the current conflict in Iraq. Holidaymakers are avoiding Turkey and Cyprus and indeed, the most of the Mediterranean. Muslim countries, such as

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Meeting News from Texas

April 27, 2003

Globetrotters meeting on 12th April by Christina The April meeting in Texas provided a plethora of travel tips – from the virtues of ziplock bags to the uses of duct

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Hadrian.s Wall Path to open

April 27, 2003

For the first time this spring, visitors will be able to walk the full length of what was the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire. Opening May 23, the 81-mile

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Airport Profile: London Heathrow

April 27, 2003

Heathrow airport is one of four airports that are almost dotted like the four points of the compass in and around London. There’s London Gatwick to the south of London,

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Algeria Missing Tourists

April 27, 2003

If you are planning to travel to the Sahara in Southern Algeria, you may want to re-think your plans. 8 Austrian tourists have just gone missing, bringing the number of

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Leaving Mikindani by Richard Densham

April 27, 2003

Richard was a volunteer working in Mikindani, Tanzania for a UK based charity, Trade Aid. It is with mixed feelings that I am about to leave Mikindani, although I would

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UK Wine Week

April 27, 2003

Vineyard tours and wine tasting are planned to mark English Wine Week this spring (May 24 – June 1). There are 379 vineyards and 115 wineries all over the country

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Bumsters in The Gambia

April 27, 2003

A recent report by the UK newspaper, the Independent said that the Gambian Tourism Association is fed up with reports saying that 60% of visitors to the country would not

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UK's Longest Coastal Trail marks 25 years

April 27, 2003

Britain’s longest national walking trail, from Minehead in Somerset to South Haven Point near Poole in Dorset, will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year. The 630-mile South West Coast Path

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