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20 Mar 2010
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Preparing a Land Rover Discovery for Tunisia
After an abortive trip to Morocco last year, we are preparing for a trip to the Tunisian Sahara in October 2010.
My car is fairly well prepared but we are making many more mods over the next few months.
I have detailed some of these and I will be adding plenty more on my website (address in signature below). You are welcome to comment and ask any questions.
I shall make the articles as detailed as possible to show how things were fitted, where they came from, how they were made and how successful they were.
In addition I will be running a 'countdown blog' until we leave on the 2nd October 2010 and then updating it remotely during the trip.
Many of the ideas and mods have come from things I have seen on forums and other personal websites. This site is my way of giving something back to the online community.
Ralph
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21 Mar 2010
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Your Morocco Blog
Just read your blog re. Morocco 2009 Ralf
You and your wife are hero’s  
The fact that you can venture out of the house at all is a miracle after your last attempt never mind planning a Tunisia trip. I guess you must have used up all the bad luck by now though, so it can only get better!
Seriously I’ll be very interested in your next trip, I’m now pondering Tunisia rather than another Morocco trip. Do you have a route planned?
Russ
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21 Mar 2010
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Tunisia
Russ
Thanks for the comments. Yes our Morocco trip was a bit of an experience    still, we leaned a lot and it will set us up for Tunisia.
It took a while before Belinda even considered another trip but Peter of Atlas Overland did a brilliant sales job at Newark last year ad now she is all for it.
Our planned trip/route can be seen here:
Tunisia 2010
We are joining the Atlas Overland tour commencing on the 7th October in Marseilles. There are still some spaces if you're up for it?
I shall continue my blog and adding more stuff to the websites as time goes by.
Cheers
Ralph
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22 Mar 2010
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Hi Ralph
Have just read about your Morocco trip. Excellent advert for Toyota!
Also saw the pics of Granada Fiesta.....interesting to see the KKK in Spain.
Mark
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23 Mar 2010
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[quote=ilesmark;281838]Hi Ralph
Have just read about your Morocco trip. Excellent advert for Toyota!
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Nah! You would never have that much fun with a Toyota  and besides, rumour has it that even Toyotas break down occasionally. At least my throttle and abs brakes work okay
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Disco a good overland
Ralph,
After reading your blog about the trip to to Marocco I do have reservations about Disco I as a good overland vehicle.
I live in Indonesia and wanted to buy 1996 300TDI from Japan to make it my overland vehicle for here. I would be using it for ocasional dirt road tracking and plan a trip up Sumatra.
Reading your blog I have second thoughts about Disco I being a reliable vehicle. I also saw a 110 die in Tunesia, so it does not seem much better.
What is you opinion? Obviously you went with Disco I for a reason.
Thanks, for the advise.
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