Land Rover Celebrate 60 Years

Missed out on tickets for Glastonbury? Still hope to get mudded up in the English countryside?

If you are searching for an action packed weekend in the heart of rural England’s most beautiful countryside this unique event should be right up your street or down your lane more likely.

Land Rover World Magazine is proud to be holding the annual Land Rover World event in the splendid grounds of Eastnor Castle in Herefordshire – the home of apples and mistletoe.

Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Land Rover the event promises to be the ultimate summer off road motoring event of the year. Let the team of experts show you how it should be done – choose from the selection of land rovers available -

• Defender
• Freelander
• Discovery
• Range Rover

Amazing vehicles all waiting to get their wheels dirty. Don’t forget Eastnor Castle with its extensive grounds has some of the greatest off road routes to be found in the UK and is the home of these amazing all terrain vehicles supported by Land Rover owners.

The Land Rover World Show happens on 7th and 8th June 2008. Go join the celebrations – sixty years of Land Rover at its ancestral home, Eastnor Castle in deepest Herefordshire.

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Land Rover – the old ones are the best

Looking for a new Land Rover? Think about recycling the old classics.

In last weeks post we raised awareness of Land Rovers green credentials. It turns out that not only the latest LRX models are environmentally friendly with their greatly improved carbon emissions and tempered gas guzzling but all things considered Land Rovers are lean mean green MPV machines. It is so easy to focus on the immediate impact of vehicles on the environment however consider the enormous use of materials and resources used in their manufacture.

It is estimated that at least 77% of landrovers ever made are still in use somewhere in the world. Pause for thought – thats a lot of remaining working vehicles since they began to roll off the production line after the Second World War.

The level of dedication to keeping these Land Rover classics on the road is a fortunate bonus for the planet – meaning less waste of materials and energy to dispose and replace models.

The reasons that Land Rovers are so durable is the combination of great craftsmanship in the motor engine and use of lightweight rustproof proprietary alloy of aluminium and magnesium called Birmabright in the bodywork. Brimabright was originally used owing to steel shortages after the war.

You too can own a land rover albeit a scale model. Enterprising ‘Shop-Bot’ sites have even set up special Land Rover categories – expecting a surge in demand following the shocking news that landover is to be run by the Indian Tata Corporation.

On Graduate Jobs a recent feature about the career opportunities land rover offer also suggests that bi-lingual candidates would have the edge in forthcoming recruitment campaigns

Flamenco to go go

Why is a crap hotel like a pair of tight underpants?

Because there’s no Ballroom.

Whats the point TB – life leading you a merry dance?

With the recent acquistion of stacks of free music downloads I have had the urge to shake it all about.  Unfortuately my jigging only extends as far as you see here and that does become tiresome after only a short while.

Old Such and Such told me of a course you can take in Flamenco – and the added bonus was it was held in Seville. Ole!! What better excuse to leave the sorry weather of Blighty behind and catch some winter rays?

Grabbed a reasonable flight direct to Malaga and journeyed onward by fast, clean, efficient, cheap train to the heart of Andalucia and checked into the Confortel Seville that had been booked online in advance.

January isn’t the best time for Flamenco it turned out so other than catching a few weathered skinned chaps clapping their hands on a street corner (fuelled by a drop of the vino rosso) it was soley down to the lessons to learn this traditional regional dance.

Pretty easy really – clap clap clap – ladies hitch up skirt (it pays to advertise) and flirtatiously flick their hips, gentlemen stomp about looking aloof and mysterious but fierce.