29/05/2026
Once again Travel Club was well attended and we certainly enjoyed the talk that Coralie Rutherford gave us about Ethiopia. It was most interesting and very informative. She also brought some artifacts to show us which she had purchased in Ethiopia.
Coralie is extremely well traveled and was also able to give us snippets from other countries that she has been to.
She had discovered an Australian company called Peregrine (now bought by Intrepid) that did small group tours. They didn’t charge single supplement and did more in depth tours. Each year she went to somewhere a little different e.g. trekking in Nepal, India twice (North & South), Japan, China, Vietnam Peru, Bolivia, down the centre of S America, Mexico, Cuba, Turkey, Greece, Poland Russia and Baltic states, driving across Belarus which borders Ukriane
BUT - the 2 best were Ethiopia and Tibet
We had a really lovely morning and many of us stayed on for lunch at the German Club.
Next month Peter Watt will be giving us a talk on a cruise commencing in Iceland and going to Faroe and Shetland Islands.