Past online meetings

Venue Change: Due to the coronation on our regular date we have a venue change for this meeting, the meeting will be held at Covent Garden Dragon Hall 17 Stukeley Street, London WC2B 5LT

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London Meeting, Saturday, April 1, 2023

Speaking in April we have :

1st: Nick Fielding – Tracing the Atkinsons: On horseback in Central Asia and Siberia.

2nd: Rosemary Alexander – Alternative Italy

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London Meeting, Saturday, March 4, 2023

Speaking in March we have :

1st: Gill Suttle – Scorched Earth: Bedouin if the Syrian Desert.

2nd: Chris Burrows – My Berlin

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London Meeting, Saturday, February 4, 2023

Speaking in February we have :

1st: Noel Perry – Travels in a Van called Speedbump
2nd: Jeanie Copland – Interrailing with my granddaughter.

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London Meeting, Saturday, January 7, 2023

Speaking in January we have:

Sheila Robinson – Georgia and Armenia
Justyna Hellebrand – Seven Weddings Around the World in Under a Year

By tradition we follow this meeting with a New Year Party post-meeting

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London Meeting, Saturday, December 3, 2022

Speaking in December we have:

1st Doreen Tayler – Curious Christmas Customs
2nd Matt Bishop and Reece Gilkes, the sidecar guys – Siberia.

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London Meeting, Saturday, November 5, 2022

Speaking in November we have:

1st Christopher Forse – Thirty Years of Travel in China.
2nd Anthony Britton – Motorcycling to Greece via Montenegro and Albania -August 2022.

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London Meeting, Saturday, October 1, 2022

Speaking this month we have:
1st: David Redford – Horn of Africa ( “Round the Horn”).
2nd: Tharik Hussain – Looking for Muslim Europe

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London Meeting, Saturday, September 3, 2022

Speaking this month we have:

1st Chris Burrows – My Berlin
2nd Rebecca Lowe – The Slow Road to Tehran

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London Meeting, Saturday, July 2, 2022

Speaking this month we have:

1st: Sophie Ibbotson – Fergana Valley: The Hub of the Silk Web
2nd: Claire Nelson – Things I Learned from Falling.

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London Meeting, Saturday, June 11, 2022

This meeting is the 2nd weekend of the month due Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Holiday.

Speaking this month we have:

1st: Sandra Reekie – Yolo to Solo
2nd: Shafik Meghji – Crossed off the Map: Travels in Bolivia

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London Meeting, Saturday, May 7, 2022

Speaking this month we have:

1st: Jane Wilson-Howarth – health work and wildlife encounters in Nepal
2nd: Nori Jemil – The Travel Photographer’s Way

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London Meeting, Saturday, April 2, 2022

Speaking this month we have:

1st: Kat Towers – Solo Female Van Life in the UK and Beyond – Destination Bulgaria!
2nd: Alan Palmer – Vainglorious pursuits – The Everest Base Camp Trek.

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London Meeting, Saturday, March 5, 2022

Speaking this month we have:

1st Pip Stewart – Life Lessons from the Amazon: A Guide to Life From One Epic Jungle Adventure
2nd John Gimlette – Madagascar: The Gardens of Mars

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London Meeting, Saturday, February 5, 2022

Speaking this month we have:

1st Mary Fogarty – Trekking with M Sarkozy and a mule called Habiba (Beloved)
2nd Anthony Britton – Tuvalu – paradise threatened.

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London Meeting, Saturday, January 8, 2022

Speaking this month we have:

1st Ben Harris – Expedition Tanganyika
2nd John Pilkington – China by the Back Door

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London Meeting, Saturday, December 4, 2021

Speaking this month:

1st Mary Fogarty – From the Pasha’s Palace to the desert city of the Haddou.
2nd Rob Ainsley – How to cycle abroad without leaving Britain

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London Meeting, Saturday, November 6, 2021

Speaking this month:

1st Helen Crisp – Madrid – Midnight City
2nd Neil Foulks – Road Trip New Zealand

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London Meeting, Saturday, October 2, 2021

Speaking this month we have:

1st Jacqui Trotter -Headed Home Part 2: Kyrgyzstan & China
2nd Two mini-talks from Annc Freeborn and Eric Hayman

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London Meeting, Saturday, September 4, 2021

Speaking this month we have:

1st Jan Parsons – From the North Cape to the Mediterranean

2nd Two mini-talks form Svatka Hermanek and Eric Hayman

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London Meeting, Saturday, July 3, 2021

Speaking this month we have:

1st Kamila Raihane – The Gambia- A taste of kindness, history and nature
2nd Rosemary J Brown – THE REFUGEE SAGA: My journey beyond the headlines

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London Meeting, Saturday, June 12, 2021

Speaking this month we have:

1st EmmaLucy Cole – Two years with the Tarrabin Bedouin in Sinai
2nd Madison Plantier – The Karst Kingdom: On the Landscapes of Southwestern China

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London Meeting, Saturday, May 8, 2021 (2nd Saturday due to BH)

Speaking this month we have:

1st Andrew P Sykes – a cycling adventures from Europe’s geographical south to its northernmost point.
2nd Molly Wilderspin-Jones and Simon Brown – Journeys with a Green Heart

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Online Meeting, Saturday, April 10, 2021 (2nd Saturday due to Easter)

Speaking this month we have:

1st Paulo Seth – Cycling the pilgrim routes
2nd Alexandra Bradford – Travels in Central Asia

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London Meeting, Saturday, March 6, 2021

Speaking this month we have:

1st Matt Nixon – Type 2, Take 2: The Mongol100
2nd Simon Finnamore – Panamá – 12 Days of Christmas 2019 /2020

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London Meeting, Saturday, February 6, 2021

Speaking this month at 2pm we have:

1st: Simon Banks – What’s the plural of paradise? Malawi, UK & Aotearoa.

2nd: Mark Hadley – Morocco: fast and slow

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London Meeting Saturday, January 9, 2021

Speaking this month we have:

1st. Som Tamang – Take on Nepal.
2nd. Dan Evans – Simplicity, Serenity and Sincerity across the world.

Plus New Year Party post-meeting (in zoom?)

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Online Meeting Saturday, December 5, 2020

Speaking this month we have:

1st. Janet Parsons – Palestine: Beyond the Wall
2nd Luke Ripley – Nil by Air: London to Sydney without flying

This meeting will be held online in zoom in line with UK Covid-19 regulations.

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Online Meeting Saturday, November 7, 2020

This month we have:

AGM: The clubs AGM starts at 12:30 pm (card carrying members only), then at 2.00 pm the meeting begins

Speaking this month at 2pm we have:

1st. Paul Gillingham – Across Spain the Roman Way, At a Snail’s Pace.
2nd: Alan Palmer – In Search of ‘Attaland

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Online Meeting Saturday, October 3, 2020

Speaking this month we have:

1st. Michał Siarek – Macedonia – the land of Alexander
2nd. Andy Browning – Following in Family Footsteps.

This meeting will now be Online

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Online Meeting Saturday, September 5, 2020

Speaking this month we have:

1st. Jacqui Trotter – The Stans
2nd. Gavin Boyter – Run the orient
3rd. Jon Lord – ‘Africa’s Forgotten Pearl’

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August 1st 2020 Online Meeting

We have two speakers of around 40 minutes and break between them

First Speaker: David Harden – A journey through Northern Pakistan.
Second Speaker: Ewa Les – Spirit of the Karkonosze mountains

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July 4, 2020 Online Meeting

We have three speakers of around 40 minutes

First Speaker: Anna Hughes – Adventuring without flying
Second Speaker: Keith MacIntosh FRGS – ‘Back to Bamyan: a return to Afghanistan’
Third Speaker: Jane Harries – Marathon des Sables

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June 13th 2020 Online Meeting

Speaking this month:

First Speaker: Duncan Gough – 100 miles to Burgos.

Second Speaker: Will Batho – Using adventure to inspire change

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May 9th 2020 Online Meeting

We have three speakers of around 40 minutes:

First Speaker: Will Linsdell – Eastern Europe Train Tours.
Second Speaker: Alicia Colson – Exploring the pictograph sites (rock art) of Northwestern Ontario in Central Canada.
Third Speaker: Vineet Vijh – Lhasa to Kathmandu by Road

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