Welcome to Chester Globetrotters and our programme of travel presentations for 2026
All our events take place at the Grosvenor Museum in Chester. Doors open at 1pm and the first presentation will start at 1.30pm, followed by a half an hour break at 2.30pm for networking with fellow travellers and a second presentation starting at 3pm. The session will end at 4pm when we usually retire to a local hostelry.
If you have any suggestions for future talks or would like to give a travel talk then please contact us.
Our March presentation features:
- Pamela presents Getting to know Sri Lanka – a set of slides set to music
- David explores the unique history, scenery and wildlife of the sensational Isles of Scilly, set 48 miles out into the Atlantic off the south west coast of Cornwall. He visits four of the main islands, including Tresco, where we see the flora and fauna of the magnificent Tropical Gardens.
Our July presentation features:
- Daniel Fiesta takes the audience on a journey through festivity, with a series of travel narratives exploring what festivals teach us about human culture and behaviour in societies across the globe. The talk explores the vibrant tapestry of human festivity, delving into the extraordinary lengths to which we go to express our cultures and commemorate life’s milestones. From the masked soirées of Venice Carnival to the whirling dervishes of Konya, from animist funerals in Sulawesi to the depraved pilgrimage that is the Romería de El Rocío, festivals are the birds-of-paradise of human cultural expression: luminescent, effervescent, eye-catching and strange. But beneath their dazzling variety, festivals reveal much about the similarities we all share, across cultures throughout the world.
- Daniel Stables writes about travel and culture for National Geographic and the BBC. Fiesta is his first full-length book.presents world of thought-provoking articles.
- Nikki will take us on a tour of the Silk Road cities of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva, and the art museum of Nukus in Uzbekistan, and ancient Merv, Gonur Depe, Ashgabat and the Darvaza Gas Crater in Turkmenistan.
- https://danielstables.co.uk
- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiesta-Journey-Festivity-Daniel-Stables/dp/1837732515