Category: TCC News

By Pauline Chakmakjian Pauline Chakmakjian is a Visit Kyoto Ambassador. The photos of the Heian Shrine and Bamboo Meal were taken by Pauline. As with every Olympics, various cultural highlights will be presented with respect to the host country. The Tokyo Olympics has experienced an unusually turbulent period of preparation with COVID-19 interfering with plans…

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We each have a moment where it all began, and for my husband Lauri and me, it was while we were on a packaged Christmas tour through South Africa and eSwatini (previously Swaziland) in 1998. In the same group we met a man traveling solo who at some point told us that he was on…

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Our congratulations to those Club members who have reached higher levels of countries visited. Well done! Gold Members (200 or more countries) Alesh Benkovic Ptuj, Slovenia James Kitchen Chapel Hill, NC, USA Mehraj Mahmudov Baku, Azerbaijian Jonathan Shier Melbourne, Australia Zhong Zhong Jinhua, Zhejiang, China Silver Members (150 or more countries) Fulchand Kishorbhai Hejam Mumbai,…

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The Travelers’ Century Club is pleased to welcome the following new members to the club: Bangham, Neil Anthony Blanche, Patricia Blugerman, Guillermo Carpenter, Karen Renee Eickmann, Christian Finney, Jonathan Hejam, Fulchand Kishorbhai Kitchen, James Kitchen, Ron Mahmudov, Mehraj Petrone, Aldo Potor, Judith H. Sanford,Donald Shi,Congming Shier, Jonathan Snead, Gloria Steinberg,Isla Steinkamp, Peter Taylor,Anne Terry, Marilyn…

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As of 2012, members must go to the TCC Forum to access the TCC Info Files. The Forum requires a user name and password to log in. TCC will continue to mail the Info Files to those who have paid the additional $10 ($85 domestic and $95 international). Back issues of the Info Files are…

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For many years, Central Asia was accessible only to those willing to subjugate themselves to the Soviet-era tourism authorities. Who was regarding whom? — you might wonder…  Things have liberalized considerably now, and the region’s star is rising on the international travel scene. To anyone familiar with the culture, history and scenery of the region,…

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The next “Destination Zoom” meeting for TCC members is scheduled for Saturday, April 17, 2021. This month’s virtual gathering investigates Algeria, the largest country in Africa. It is a country emerging from years of being largely off limits due to a brutal civil war in the 1990s, subsequent problems of violence and kidnapping, and issues…

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Harold “Hal” Hart Marshall, Wisconsin, USA I joined the Navy when I was 18 to see the world. My 65th birthday is around the corner and now I’m trying to see the parts of the world I’ve missed.Thinking back to the late 70’s and those thick guidebooks I used to purchase prior to a trip,…

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Meet Frances Francesc Borrull, Our New Mediterranean Chapter Coordinator My life has been blessed with combining my two great passions: travel and railways. When I was young, Inter-Rail passes enabled me to travel by train across Europe. Once married, my wife and I took trips to Asia, the Middle East and North America, and work…

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I really wish I had written down the exact moment a decision was made to visit every country in the world. You would think the date (or even year) of such a major decision and milestone in my life would’ve been somehow recalled, recorded, noted, or even scribbled down on a napkin at very least.…

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