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Coordinator: Donna Marsh 24-28 St Leonard's Road, Suite 47 Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 3BB United Kingdom E-mail: donna_marsh@hotmail.com Reservations are necessary for attendance at TCC meetings |
The Travelers’ Century Club UK will be holding our Autumn 2008 meeting on Sunday, 14th September 2008 at:
The Mall Room
Royal Automobile Club
Pall Mall Clubhouse
89 Pall Mall
London SW1Y 5HS
Tel 020 7930 2345
We have invited Mr. Stephen Jones from the Royal Geographical Society to attend our meeting. He will be giving a lecture on ‘Nine Lives and How to Lost Them: Epic Tales of adventure and near misses from twenty years of expeditions.’ Steve is an expedition leader, mountaineer, polar guide and an expert in the planning of extreme endeavours. He has been on more than 40 expeditions to the world’s great wildernesses, jungles and mountains.
Please RSVP no later than Friday, 22nd August 2008. Click here to download the agenda and RSVP form in PDF format.
Donna Marsh
Travelers’ Century Club
Area Coordinator, United Kingdom
Scuba enthusiast Karin Sinniger, a member of the TCC's United Kingdom chapter, hopes to earn a place in the Guinness World Records book by logging 100 dives in 100 different countries. Above, Karin poses underwater at her 77th international dive destination, a lake in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad where her story made the front page of the local newspaper.
TCC United Kingdom group at the Pig's Ear Pub in London in February 2008. From left to right: Mrs Elaine Palmer,
Ms Donna Marsh, Area Coordinator, Mr Mike Kendall, Mr John Barnett, Mr Angus Palmer.
The UK held its winter meeting at the Pig’s Ear Pub in London’s Chelsea neighborhood, on February 3, reports Donna Marsh, Area Coordinator. The next UK meeting will be on September 14 at the RAC, Pall Mall, London. Guest speaker will be from the Royal Geographical Society and members will also be able to talk about their latest travel adventure. For its spring, 2009, meeting, John Barnett invites all international TCC members to Dublin, where he and Marsh will be hosting a weekend event in April, from Friday evening through lunch on Sunday. Details will be announced this summer.
Mr. John Barnett has invited TCC members to Dublin, where he and the UK Area Coordinator have agreed to host the Spring 2009 TCC Meeting. In addition to the members based in the Republic and the UK, we would like to invite other TCC members from abroad. We will be planning a weekend event in April, with arrivals on Friday evening, departing after lunch on Sunday. Please make a note in your diaries. Details will be published later in the summer.
The next UK meeting will be held on Sunday, 14th September 2008 at the RAC, Pall Mall, London, where a speaker from the Royal Geographical Society will be our guest of honour. The agenda will also include an opportunity for each member to speak about their latest travel adventures. A formal invitation will be sent to all UK and Irish members with details shortly. We look forward to seeing you there.
Best regards,
Donna Marsh
TCC U.K. Area Coordinator
The UK chapter held its fall 2007 meeting in combination with the TCC International meeting, Click here for a special report and picture gallery from this very successful event.
Area Coordinator Donna Marsh has sent us a copy of the feature lead story in the Travel Section of the March 11, 2007, Sunday Telegraph. Titled “Country Collectors,” the article gives background on theTravelers' Century Club and the recent meeting of the UK Chapter. Several members in the UK group are mentioned and pictured in the story. You can read the story on the Sunday Telegraph website.
The Travelers' Century Club United Kindgom, 11 th February 2007, the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, London. Left to right: Mrs. Patricia Hodges, Mr. David Hodges, Mr. Leo Millward, Mr. Scott Warner, Mr. Pekka Suonio, Mr. Ian Gamble, Mr. John Barnett, Mrs. June Barnett, Mrs. Elaine Palmer, Mr. Angus Palmer, Ms. Donna Marsh, Area Coordinator, Mr. Colin McCorquodale.
Tthe Travelers' Century Club has held its second meeting in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 11th February 2007, returning to the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, London. Members travelled from throughout the UK and Ireland. Unfortunately, we did not have any members from the Continent in attendance. Other UK and Irish members sent their regrets due to ongoing travel. Some of our members' whereabouts on the day included India, Azerbaijan, Sao Tomé , Mauritania, and Yemen. We also hosted a Travel Writer for the (London) Sunday Telegraph Travel Section, who interviewed various TCC members for publication over the next few weeks.
Each member brought a photo to share with the group. Highlights included posing on Chicken Street in Kabul, Afghanistan; a posh beach in Barbados illustrating the changes over 40 years; the triumph of climbing to a stunning view of K2 on the Karakoram Highway, Pakistan; solar eclipsing on top of a tea house in Esfahan, Iran; driving a massive caravan (motor home) through the Southern States in America; a demonstration and photo of water dousing in the Sahara; standing in the crater of Mt. Etna in Sicily; the trials of Southern Africa on an overland road trip from London to Cape Town; and reading a map of Burundi – where one member completed his travel to each sovereign nation.
Other issues raised by the club:
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The TCC UK will organise our next meeting in conjunction with the Circumnavigators Club, to be held on Wednesday, 27th June, at The Oriental Club, London.
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TCC UK members are interested in attending the TCC International meeting in October. We have also discussed holding our own chapter meeting just prior to the start of the global meeting, most probably on the Friday afternoon.
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Responsible Travel issues were brought up. Several members discussed raising awareness of the impact of Carbon Emissions on travel, particularly flying. Calculations were made whereby an average of 4-5 long haul trips per year contribute to more than 50% of an average household's total annual emissions. We will publish websites that work to offset travel emissions to our members.
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The TCC Area Coordinator has volunteered to collect unwanted currencies for donation through schemes supported by British Airways.
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Members of the TCC UK have agreed to write and bring a short story to our June meeting that describes one of their interesting travel experiences. We have discussed organising them into a publication, or to possibly make them available on line on the main TCC website.
We look forward to seeing you in June.
The Travelers' Century Club United Kindgom, 24th September 2006, the Royal
Automobile Club,Pall Mall, London.
Left to right:
Mrs. June Barnett, Mr. Ian Gamble, Ms. Susan Gibson, Mr. RP D'Silva, Mr. James Neville O'Brien, Mr. David Langan, Mr. Peter Biddlecombe, Ms. Donna Marsh, Mr. Peter Mosse, Mr. Pekka Suonio, Mr. Angus Palmer, Mrs. Elaine Palmer, Mr. Phillip Sylvester, Mrs. Patricia Hodges, Mr. David Hodges, Mr. John Barnett.
The Travelers' Century Club has held its first meeting in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 24th September 2006 at the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, London. Members travelled from throughout the UK and Ireland . A British guest from the TCC in New York was also in attendance.
We have a lively and dynamic group who clearly share an adventurous view of travel. Members shared their travel experiences, with many describing how they learned about the TCC. Some members have been travelling and living abroad all of their lives. Others discovered travel in conjunction with business or for other reasons later in life.
The group shared travel highlights, which included trips to see the solar eclipse in Libya earlier this year from two different members, an overland drive to Beijing in 1990, a journey to Tristan de Cunha and Ascension, travelling through the "istans" immediately after their independence, and an unfortunate experience in Calcutta.
The Oct. 7 travel section of the London Times carried an item about the meeting, noting that there are 30 TCC members from Britain.
The next TCC UK meeting will be held on Sunday, 11th February 2007. The London venue will be determined at a later date. We are asking each member to bring one travel photo that they are happy to discuss with the group. An autumn date wil be determined at that time.