girlwholoveslandies
Member Since: 31 Jan 2011
Location: Surrey
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Hello All - I'm organising a surprise trip for my boyfriend and wanted to know what are the best locations - further a field, france, portugal Morocco?? any advice, ideas from a male perspective and thoughts on what would be the ultimate surprise.. at the moment budget is the secondary item on my list!!
Would look to take my Disco 3!! she says....
Thanks!
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 31st Jan 2011 11:08 pm |
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grzesiul
Member Since: 11 May 2008
Location: UK
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Piedmont or Pyrenees for best views I'd say or Atacama if moneys are not the issue
but there some very nice technical super chilled lanes around Surrey as well
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| 31st Jan 2011 11:24 pm |
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DiscoDad
Member Since: 06 Nov 2006
Location: Beautiful Teesdale
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I've always wanted to go on a trip to Iceland (not the iceland that mums go to).
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| 1st Feb 2011 7:34 am |
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| 1st Feb 2011 7:53 am |
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Ted Newman
Member Since: 09 Oct 2010
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Loved Morocco - it has just about everything to make a great off-road experience and if you go around this time of the year it will even have mud  LR Discovery 4 XS pulling an Airstream 532 Caravan also own (since new) a 1996 MGF
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| 1st Feb 2011 8:10 am |
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JF Lux
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If you are thinking of France then (as said above) go that little bit further to the Pyrenees (Spanish side). You would have great views and terrain. Not excessively difficult in a lot of areas. If you are thinking of going it alone, then there are roadbooks available from this place (they are highly recommended) http://vibraction.pagesperso-orange.fr/espagne/espagne.htm Or there are a number of organised trips ranging from easy to difficult and a few days to two weeks.
Apparently Portugal is supposed to be a good area as well.
Would maybe avoid North Africa at the moment...
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| 1st Feb 2011 8:11 am |
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dangerdave
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| 1st Feb 2011 9:10 am |
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Projectblue
Member Since: 15 Feb 2009
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Try Alpine Rovers - they do offroad tours across the Alps from France into Italy. www.alpinerovers.com and are proper Land Rover fans 
I'd just like to say what a nice thing it is to buy your boyfriend. I'd love something like that, my other half bought me a PS3 game for my 45th  D3 2.7tdv6 SE Manual - SOLD
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| 4th Feb 2011 3:54 pm |
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MARKW
Member Since: 29 Aug 2008
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45????
You must of had a hard paper round Dave  HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE
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| 4th Feb 2011 3:56 pm |
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ZacSmith
Member Since: 26 Aug 2010
Location: Dover
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DiscoDad wrote:I've always wanted to go on a trip to Iceland (not the iceland that mums go to).
x2. I have really wanted to do this for ages. It looks awesome. Have a look at the link below. As far as I know if you wanted to take your D3 you have a to get a ferry from Denmark via the Faroe Islands. Would be epic though.
http://www.discover-the-world.co.uk/en/typ...rjeep.html
x2 on you being a great girlfriend. I got a  scarf and slippers
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| 4th Feb 2011 4:00 pm |
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David-H.
Member Since: 13 Nov 2006
Location: Edinburgh
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Another vote for Iceland. We did it in 2008 and had a fantastic trip. This was when the ferry was running from Scrabster.
We would certainly do it again, but cost and time rule it out for the moment.
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| 8th Feb 2011 12:01 am |
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sportsman
Member Since: 13 Feb 2011
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Iceland would be superb me Thinks...
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| 13th Feb 2011 1:48 pm |
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Hanechdene
Member Since: 23 Jun 2009
Location: High Wycombe
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Hi
If you interested in joining forces, my wife and I planning to go to the Pryenees over Easter.
We have purchased a couple of vibraction books and are meeting up with Tony686 at the weekend as he is planning on going with Scrat.
let me know if you are interested,
Jamie
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| 16th Feb 2011 8:22 pm |
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highbayrack
Member Since: 09 Jul 2008
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Hanechdene wrote:Hi
We have purchased a couple of vibraction
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