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Need help? Want a travelling buddy or advice about a
place or country - want to share something with us - why not
visit our Mutual Aid section of the Website:
Mutual
Aid

The beetle puts safety pins in her shorts pockets to prevent
being pick pocketed in busy areas.

Got any travel tips for the Beetle? Then e-mail them
to: "mailto:Beetle@globetrotters.co.uk">Beetle@globetrotters.co.uk

Have a look at: "http://www.far-and-near.com/">http://www.far-and-near.com
This is a “cultural travel magazine” and has some short travelogues with
lovely pictures. The Website has also won a couple of prestigious Internet
awards too!

Under 24? 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 submitted independent travel
plan. Interested? Then see href="http://www.globetrotters.co.uk/legacy.html">our legacy
page on our Website, where you can apply with your plans for a totally
independent travel trip and we’ll take a look at it. Get those plans
in!!

Paul Webmaster Roberts recommends Cafe Valerie, Regents
Street Branch, good coffee and cakes and its not Starbucks.

Want to tell us about your favorite coffee corner or
watering hole? Then contact the Beetle: "mailto:Beetle@globetrotters.co.uk">Beetle@globetrotters.co.uk

If any Globetrotters member would like to start a branch,
whether it is in Aberdeen or Zanzibar, please see our FAQ or contact Iona
Hill, the Branch Liaison Officer via our Website at "http://www.globetrotters.co.uk/meetings/meet_faq.html">Meeting
FAQ

Arrive in Lima, spend at least 2 nights there and visit the
cathedral, the museum of the Inquisition, buy bus ticket to
Pisco. Visit Paracas national Park, take the bus to Nazca and
organise a trip in a light aircraft to see the Nazca lines
the next day. Take the bus to Arequipa and stay a couple of
says - visit the convent of Santa Catalina, make an
overnight/2 day trip to the Colca Canyon. Fly to Cuzco
- about $60 o/w, do the Inca trail or take the train to
Machu Picchu. Cuzco’s a great place to hang around in,
then fly back to Lima, Take an Amazon side trip or continue
overland by train to Puno on Lake Titicaca and then bus to
Copacabana in Bolivia.

Please contact "mailto:Beetle@globetrotters.co.uk">Beetle@globetrotters.co.uk
for your suggested country itinerary

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.

New York:Bob Sacha talked about his work as a
photographer for National Geographic magazine — don’t you just hate people with jobs like that! And
Alejandra Gurtman, Medical Director, and Gail Rosselot talked
about the various diseases worth avoiding and how to avoid
them whilst travelling.

April’s meeting has been cancelled due to Passover and
Easter. Details for the May 5^th meeting coming
soon!

New York meetings are held at The Wings Theater, 154
Christopher Street (btw Greenwich St and Washington St), to
the right of Crunch Fitness, in the Archive on the first
Saturday of each month at 3.30pm.

London: Kate Clow an experienced tour leader who
specialises in developing and conducting long distance walks
talked to us about the Lycian Way in Turkey. The walk is
almost 500 km long and takes 4 to 6 weeks although you can
join at many points. Richard Knight who has just written a
guide to trekking in the Atlas Mountains regaled us with
stories of his initial forays to Marrakech and some more
unsavoury facts about camels.

Next April is John Pilkington ‘The royal road of the Incas’
and Jason Lewis -X360- ‘circumnavigating the world without
using mechanical power’. Should be a good one!!

London 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.