Michael decided that he and I needed a break and it would be a good idea to go on an off road trip to Wales. As Michael is not an off road or Land Rover enthusiast I was quite surprised. Mark decided he would like to go as well. So a quick call to the Abbey Grange hotel and accommodation was arranged for the three of us for 15th March 2012.
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Greenlaning: Wales, March 2011
Ever since purchasing his new Land Rover Discovery some months ago Andre had been pestering me to take him on a green lane trip to Wales. I’d also been promising my mate Julian to take him on a trip and I kept finding good reasons to put if off. So I decided to bite the bullet and organise another excursion to the wilds of North Wales. I sent out an invitation to a number of people and settled on a couple of days that everybody could make. A swift negotiation with the
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Wales, March 2011 by Emma
Having recently purchased a shiny Land Rover, I was a little surprised when Andre first approached Dad asking when he would next be planning an off-road trip to Wales. Of course needing no excuse to trek through the Welsh wilderness the trip was quickly organised a few weeks later. I have been on a few day trips to the Devils Pit since the family Land Rover obsession began, but have never actually taken part in real green laning. So when I was asked if I wanted to come along I thought, what the heck, it’s time to find out what all the fuss is about! I made sure I packed all the appropriate camera equipment; lenses, tripods etc as I figured this would be the only way I could probably make myself useful by documenting our trip.
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Wales – November 2010
It was quite a surprise when out of the blue Mark one Tuesday said “I’m holiday this week could you take me on an off-road trip”. As I had offered to take him several times before, I could hardly refuse. I quickly called around all the usual suspects to find out who was available. With exception of Jamie everybody else was not available at such short notice. I then started frantically e-mailing to try and find accommodation for 3. In the end I found two locations offering B&B for the Thursday night. I settled on the Abbey Grange Hotel in Llangollen. I arranged to meet Mark and Jamie at 9 o’clock on the Thursday Morning. here was no time to even put decent tyres on the 3 door Discovery. I had loaded up the car with 2 Hi-lift jacks and a selection of wooden chocks, strops, shackles, chains and ropes. The car is pretty much bog standard and is a basic model, it’s even got manual windows.
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Green laning trip to Wales March 2009
Phil, David and I decided it would be a good idea to take some time out for a bit of R & R and a few days green laning seemed the ideal solution. Another trip to Wales seemed to offer all we needed. As David was disappearing off on a round the world trip at the end of April it had to be done soon. We decided B&B rather than self catering to allow us more time out and about. After a bit of surfing I found a B&B in Llanfyllin at a place called “The-Green-Door”, after a quick phone call and an E-mail I had booked accommodation for the 10th and 11th March 2009.
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An afternoon green laning in Kent
It was Thursday the 25 th September the weather was fine and I’d decided to pop down to Julian’s and do a spot of laning. Phil and Jamie wanted to come so we set off in the 3 door Discovery from Enfield around 10:15 am. We arrived in Lenham at about 12 o’clock and stopped in the village for some lunch.
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A Weekend’s Green Laning in Wales, June 2007
When we originally planned to go to Wales we were going to take “Uriah” the white 3.5 V8 110 but it was running like a dog, so I decided to take the blue CSW 110 instead.
We were taking 3 cars in total: the CSW 110, my 3-door 200 TDI Discovery and Phil’s 3.5 gas converted V8 Discovery.
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