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For true 007 fans this exhibition at the Science Museum
in London will display a vast collection of objects, costume designs,
storyboards and images. See Oddjob's killer bowler hat and Rose Klebb's
flick-knife shoe. Visitors will have a real behind the scenes look at
the work of the creative and technical teams of these world famous films.
Special themed areas will allow fans of Bond to gain a sense of what its
like to be the special agent. Visitors must embark on a 'death-defying
stunt' and negotiate 'the mirrored maze in the villains lair'
before they are granted secret agent status! The exhibition runs from
16 October 2002 - March 2003. For more info, visit:

alt=" ">London Events: Pearly Kings and Queens Harvest Festival

If you’ve never seen them, this is your chance:
if you are in London 6^th October, you will be
able to see the Pearly Kings and Queens. They are traditional Cockney
costermongers. The altar and the pulpit of St Martins in the Fields, Trafalgar
Square are arrayed with the fruits of the earth, and a Pearly King or
Queen reads one of the Lessons, while the congregation sings the hymns
of the harvest season.

Date: 6 Oct 2002

Location: St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, Trafalgar
Square, London, WC2N 4JJ Tel: (020) 7766 1100

Website: St
Martins in the Fields

It’s Real Beer Week in British pubs this autumn.
33 family run breweries that have each been in the business from 100 to
300 years want to encourage more people to try real ale. The 33 brewers,
are staging the first ever Real Beer Week in British pubs this
autumn (September 30 - October 6). If you are not sure you would like
the beer on offer, many pubs will provide a no-obligation free taste on
request. For more info, visit: "http://www.familybrewers.co.uk/">Family Brewers

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 submitted independent travel plan.

Interested?

Then see 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!!

A number of boat tours and ferries operate on the Thames.
Below is a selection of the trips you can take.

Catamaran Cruises offer tours with commentary,
leaving from Waterloo and the Embankment. Waterloo: from 10.45
until 17.45 every hour (except 14.45) Embankment: from 10.15 until
20.15

Westminster: from 14.30 until 21.30 every hour

Circular Cruises offer return trips from Westminster
Pier (Victoria Embankment) as far as St. Katherine's Pier in the Docklands.
Cruises depart every 30-80 minutes with an option of getting off at London
Bridge Pier. You can also take boats the other direction to Hampton Court,
Kew, and Richmond.

City Cruisers offer a range of trips, including
service between London Bridge and Westminster Pier, and a Pool of London
hop-on, hop-off shuttle, calling at St. Katherine's Pier, Butler's
Wharf, HMS Belfast, London Bridge City Pier, and Tower Pier.

Note: with commentaried cruises the crew will
pass a hat at the end of the trip and you will be expected to toss in
a quid or two as a tip, so make sure you have some change!

Source: Britain
Express

Absolutely a true story: the pilot of an SAS plane,
on a domestic flight in Sweden, called up an airport control tower for
clearance to land and found no one at home.

No one realized that the controller at Kristianstad
Airport had not returned from vacation and the plane was left to circle
for 30 minutes while a replacement was found.

The Dash-8 aircraft, on a flight from Stockholm with
30 passengers, eventually landed safely and the Scandinavian airline said
there was never any danger to the plane or those on board.

Airport officials said that a scheduling mix-up was
responsible for the incident and the absence of a controller was not noticed
until the SAS pilot called the control tower.

Source: Airwise.com

We think that all Globetrotters should go and visit
the new Frommer’s Budget Travel site on MNSBC. There are some great
articles, a notice board for sharing tips, posting issues and asking the
editors questions. For more info, visit: "http://www.budgettravel.msnbc.com/">Frommers Budget Travel and check
it out.

Air Canada and Australia's leading carrier, Qantas,
will both reduce flights over the next two months to Taiwan because they
say they cannot make enough money from them.

Canada's new low fare airline, Calgary based Zip,
(owned by Air Canada) took to the skies in September, launching short
haul domestic routes in the west of the country, flying initial services
between Edmonton, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Calgary.

Rumours abound in Oz that Singapore Airlines may revive
Australia’s failed domestic operator, Ansett. Sir Richard Branson’s
Oz based Virgin Blue (been going 2 years now) picked up much of Ansett’s
business when it went bust.

Talking of Virgin Blue, they have applied for permission
to fly to Hong Kong and are pursuing plans to start flights to New Zealand,
and possibly Bali.

Still in Australia, Australian, Australia’s newest
low fare operation, (owned by Qantas), is to start services to Japan next
month from Cairns. The first two routes will be to Nagoya and Osaka and
it plans to be serving six Asian destinations with its four aircraft before
the end of the year. (A good bit of competition may provide us Globetrotters
with more routings and lower costs!)

Cathay Pacific have announced plans to resume flying
to mainland China. They have applied for routes to Beijing, Shanghai and
Xiamen but has not said when it is likely to start services. The only
Hong Kong airline currently serving China is Dragonair, in which Cathay
has an 18 percent stake.

Boo hoo! US Airways have announced that they will no
longer be serving free alcoholic drinks on their transatlantic flights
to economy class passengers.

Delta Air Lines is cancelling its daily non-stop flights
from its Atlanta hub to both Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro due to losses
made on these 2 routes.

BAA, the world's largest airport operator, reported
a rise in traffic at its seven UK airports, and says that it has won the
backing of local planning authorities to raise passenger capacity at London
Stansted to 25 million.

A GBP£250 million (USD$391 million) scheme aims
to make Stansted, one of the country's fastest growing airports, capable
of handling an extra 10 million passengers by 2010.

Bet you didn’t know that England, yes, England
as in the UK, produces wine!

Heart of England Fine Foods and Heart of England Tourist
Board have just produced a new brochure outlining vineyards to visit in
Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Some 95 vineyards, located throughout the UK, are open
to the public and a number of these are in the Heart of England region.

‘The Wine Trail' lists a number of
vineyards at Astley, Frome Valley, Bodenham, Coddington, Halfpenny Green,
Tiltridge, Lulham Court and Wroxetter.

Many vineyards are in beautiful parts of the region,
making it viable to tie in a visit to a vineyard with a trip to another
attraction.

For further information or a copy of the ‘The
Wine Trail' contact HEFF on 01746 785185, Fax: 01746 785186, or E-mail:
"mailto:office@heff.co.uk">office@heff.co.uk

Source: Britain
Express

The other day, a group of London based Globetrotters
started talking about slang and direct translations from one language
into another. This lead to Olwen, a Welsh language student, telling one
of us of a Welsh colloquialism that made us laugh.

In Welsh, the word Microwave becomes a microdion, and
an oven in Welsh slang is “Popty.” So guess what’s a microwave?

It’s a “Popty Ping”