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Interesting stuff! Amazing how many of the roadside plants here come from Europe.
4 years agoFoxglove is so pretty!
Just don't eat it...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitalis
Thanks John. Keep warm and Merry Christmas.
4 years agoGood beginnings, Jean-Marc and Leigh. V good photographs, too.
A berry bold trip indeed ;-) :(
Safe journeys, John
Hi Jean-Marc and Leigh
4 years agoI have been enjoying your journal and its great pictures. Seems like you are having another amazing trip.
Should you have the time I would like to pick your brain. My wife and I, both early 60s from Somerset West, South Africa have done a number of cycle tours over the past 10 years, mostly Europe and SA (www.wobblingwinos.blogspot.com if you are interested). Our steel Dawes tourers are getting a bit tired and I have long dreamed about getting Thorn bikes. Am I right that your experience with your's has been good?
Did you have them sent to you in SA or did you go to have them measured up in the UK? I had our Dawes bikes sent to SA a number of years ago and that was a bit of a cockup with import charges, wrong components, etc.
Thorn have changed their offering a bit this year - the Raven is no longer on the list. If you have seen the new brochure, have you any recommendations?
I would appreciate your thoughts if you have a moment.
Enjoy your trip and happy pedaling.
Cheers
Ian Findlay
ianfindlay7@gmail.com