The Crichtons,ausweichtrikot bayer leverkusen, now based near Loughborough, Leicestershire, lived in Saudi Arabia in the 1990s when Peter was Vice President of the Olayan Group, one of the largest private manufacturing operations in the Middle East,schalke trikot 2011, and bought Rabia soon after her construction in 1991.
'At first the car was used to provide transport while we stayed in the Middle East but it didn't take long for our journeys to become short expeditions,' said Peter.
'By 1997,italien trikot em, our travels in Rabia became more serious and in 1997, after the unification of Yemen, we planned and executed a 5,100 mile circumnavigation of the Arabian Peninsula.'

Eileen has a quick stretch of her legs after parking the Land Rover up at Tombstone Mountain in Canada

This is certainly off-roading as the Land Rover is brought to a halt on a hill outside a beautiful Scottish castle

It's not easy driving in hot conditions, so Peter has a bit of a rest on the bonnet in Saudi Arabia
Peter and Eileen have never looked back and named their beloved Land Rover 'Rabia',benfica lissabon trikot 2013 14 kaufen, a name used in the Middle East to describe a person empowered to conduct travellers safely through different tribal territories.
Peter said: 'In 1998, we completed a second circular expedition through northern Arabia, Jordan and Syria, returning home over the Great Nafud.
'Rabia had opened doors for us that we could not have imagined. There just had to be more.'
Their ambitious plans to reach new horizons were supported by Peter's employers, the Olayan Group.
A Satellite phone in the vehicle was used to keep in contact with Peter's office during some extended periods of travel outside the Middle East.


Here's hoping the handbrake is on, during a drive to the western Sahara, and right, the winding roads of south Chile

Ancient art was just one highlight of the couple's drive around Saudi Arabia

Making sure she is wrapped up to deal with chilly weather,bvb trikot vorstellung 13 14, Eileen poses for a stunning landscape photo in Norway
Next up for Peter and Eileen was a trip around the world by the longest land route possible from west to east.
In 1999, they shipped Rabia to Pakistan from Dubai and crossed over the Himalayas into China, embarking on a journey around the remotest parts of the region.
Peter said: 'After three months of expedition travel we reached the northwest Pacific coast in Siberia and shipped Rabia to North America.
'We restarted the global circuit in Spring 2000 at the most westerly point we could reach in Alaska's Aleutian Chain, crossing the continent to the very edge of a cliff in Newfoundland three months later.
'It took another two months during the autumn to travel back to our start point in the Middle East,torwart trikot real madrid, discovering for ourselves that the world was indeed round.
'We were immensely proud. We'd travelled 26,spanien em trikot wappen,000 miles through amazing places and probably achieved a first in expedition travel.'


These finger-like mountains were visited in Turkey,trikot uruguay, while right, similar formations were discovered in Mali

The luscious greenery of Ireland provided a serene stop-off for the Loughborough-based couple
Peter and Eileen didn't stop there, embarking on a second global circuit in 2002 through the Southern Hemisphere.
After circling Australia they shipped to South America, traversing the 5,dfb trikot 2014 mit eigenem namen,000 mile Inca Trail through the Andes from Chile to Colombia.
They spent 2003 in South America before shipping Rabia to Morocco in the spring of 2004 where they travelled throughout northwest Africa before returning to the UK.
Travels throughout Africa by the couple took much of 2006, 2007, and 2008.
Then, starting in 2010, they drove from a barren headland in northern Scandinavia, the most northerly location on the planet Rabia could get to, before heading over the Equator to reach the most southerly point.


The hilly Pakistan Karaktom Highway proved no challenge to the trusty Land Rover, while right, extreme measures had to be taken to cross into Congo

The Land Rover meets an old friend here as the couple check out a disused vehicle in Argentina

The snow-topped mountains of Argentina provide a glorious backdrop for another addition to the photo album
Peter said: 'This was one of our proudest moments. We were as close to Cape Horn as it was possible to travel, reaching probably the maximum possible southerly destination for a single vehicle.
'In terms of our personal highlights of our travels,schalke neues trikot 2013 14, it's really difficult to say.
'We'd have to mention the Karakoram Highway through northern Pakistan, travelling through the Himalayas to China and also the wild mountainous landscape of the Andes in South America.
'Rabia has never failed us but her personal moment of outstanding success has to be the 450 mile crossing of the Amazon Basin from Manaus in Brazil south to reach Bolivia.

It's time to park up and take in the surroundings for the couple here in the Canadian Rockies

The Land Rover interrupts the animals grazing in Chile, as the landscape shows off a beautiful array of colours

Sometimes it was just necessary to put the handbrake on, and take a deep breath to take in the surroundings
'Our journeys have brought us in contact with amazing people as well as amazing landscapes and it has permanently enriched our lives in a way that we could not have anticipated.
'We admired some really important aspects of social cohesion and enduring family values which many remote communities continue to enjoy.
'Without exception,podolski trikot bayern, there had been unfailing friendliness from the inhabitants of these more distant places on our route.'
And with the trip on the Continental Divide planned before the year is out,trikot griechische nationalmannschaft, the trusty Land Rover is set to be dusted down wheeled out of the garage once more.

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