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    Wales Online and Wales Today

    Walesonline and Wales Today have published an article today about the trip: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/i-wanted-can-meet-grandad-8464900 The article is also in the printed paper Wales on Sunday

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    Sponsored by Evolution Signs

    David Woodthorpe of Evolution signs has kindly and generously made signs for the Panniers and back box. There is plenty of space on these for extra sponsors, all money donations go directly to Street Child.

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    Call for Sponsors

    Sponsors are needed to raise money for Street Child, a charity helping to rebuild the lives of children orphaned by Ebola in West Africa. Sponsorship could be from a few pounds from an individual to hundreds of pounds from a business. In return for donations of over ┬ú250…

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    More bike mods – LED flood lights and Barkbusters

    I have done some more work on the bike. I have installed a pair of high intensity led spot lights to boost the poor light from main beam on the bike. LEDs have come a long way ams give a lot of light for little power. They are…

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    True Size of Africa

    How big is Africa? – The standard world map does not give it’s true size due to the way the Earth is flattened to put on paper. A guy called Kal Krause has produced this image which gives a better idea of the scale.

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    Patrick Davey – On his way

    I have been watching the blog of an Australian Patrick Davey who is travelling a similar route to me. He left the UK this week on his way to Cape Town. Here is his facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/drcanafricanadventure/timeline And he has a satellite tracker plotting his current location: https://share.delorme.com/PATRICKDavey…