Thanks, Simon, I have already done so and I agree your photos are excellent - as indeed are the reports. I envy you. My particular ambitions are to ride the Karakoram Highway and in due course visit the tomb of my ancestor in Calcutta who was the first Englishman (as the Scots were then referred to) to enter Tibet; he went as the envoy of Warren Hastings in 1774-5 to establish trading relations and became a good chum of the Teshu Lama. He also introduced the potato into Tibet, apparently. It would be good to retrace his route up through Bhutan - now probably a 4-lane highway.
With best regards,
Neil.
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