Well, what can I say? What a superb weekend….!   :o)

I wanted to say how very impressed Chris and I were with the Yorkshire Off-Road weekend - we absolutely loved it! I know that what we did was pretty mild for you (a chicken korma perhaps, compared to your usual vindaloo!), but we loved it. I've completed a couple of Land Rover Experience days, and they certainly were of benefit to me on this weekend, but I have come away from this weekend with a lot more confidence in my own ability, and also the huge ability of the car itself. A great bunch of people too…!

I've certainly "got the bug" now and will be hoping to do more in the future.

Thanks again Paul for a superb weekend.

Paul , thank you for organising and leading a fantastic OneLife Adventure to the Western Sahara. This was my 3rd trip with you and I enjoyed it as much as Morocco and Tunisia. Your leadership skills – whether finding a safe and quiet spot to camp, using mapping software to find small tracks in a remote and little known part of the world or getting and keeping the group together – are impressive. I particularly appreciated the hotel options when they were available. The daily satellite message to relatives back home giving our location and a reassurance that all is well is a valuable innovation and I hope you will continue with this.

I am already looking forward to the Libyan trip later in this year, also, could you please reserve a provisional place on both 2011 Algerian trips

Linda and I wanted to drop you a line to thank you for a truly excellent weekend. We enjoyed all the runs (difficult and easy) the company and despite some bad weather, some stunning countryside. Thanks also for taking the extra time to cover Happy Valley which was well worth it from our perspective.  The format that you provide of camping with basic facilities or even wild camping with some time in the evening to chat to like minded individuals round a camp fire is something we particularly enjoyed over other weekends we have participated in with the competition.

Thanks again for a brilliant weekend end and we look forward to joining you again when holidays and work permit it !!!!

Dear Paul

Thank you for organising and leading another excellent and well-planned adventure. I am already looking forward to my trips with you next year.

Paul,

Thanks for a fantastic three weeks, the chance to see the huge diversity of the country in landscape & culture. We both already have a love for Africa & it has wetted our appetite to see more.

We were impressed with your exceptional knowledge and facts which you provided throughout the trip. As well as the amazing changing scenery we really enjoyed the opportunities to met people in their native environment - the breakfast delivered by the farmer in the Rif and the visit to Nima's village will be lasting memories.

Hi Paul and Anne,
Thank you for an "awesome" holiday ( Connors` choice of word!) The two weeks were excellent fun,  fantastic scenery and made even better by a great crowd of people.   The kids both enjoyed it more than we thought they would.   The only problem is now that we cannot wait to start planning the next adventure. You organised everything so well and your enthusiasm and joy of travelling was contagious. Thank you again for a memory making holiday and we will see you soon on another trip,  unless we are on the blacklist!!
                                    Yours ( feeling really pissed off about being at work and being at home and not being able to come to Morocco in September and hating living in a house not a tent...)

                                         Carol,  Kevin , Connor ( better known as Cub) and Shannon.
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Hi Paul , I would just like to say a huge thankyou for your hospitality on your Pyrenees explorer. I think I can speak for both me and John when I say we had a truly awesome experience.
 
Also, I have written an article about the trip and have forwarded it to Total Off Road. Emily has got back to me and said that they hope to run it in the future.
 
Anyway, many thanks again, I look forward to travelling with you again soon

Dear Paul - just to let you know we have just returned to Cumbria after a wonderful trip, very good itinerary and lovely people, thoroughly enjoyed ourselves - thank you for making it such a good trip.

Hi Paul

Our tour with you was just terrific and exceeded our expectations. The choice of tracks and driving was just right with an excellent mix of terrain and difficulty. The campsites where also perfect. One of the best adventures we have had.

Hi Paul and Anne,
We would both like to thank you for a fantastic weekend last week. We really enjoyed the driving, views, weather and the company. It was a great starter for us into the world of expedition and convoy driving. the driving was just what we wanted and we both got a good chance to test our driving skills, and we are currently making alterations to our good old 200 TDI, which, by the way is still better than a Land Cruiser !!!!!!!!!!

See you in October

Paul & Anne,

Just a quick note to thank you once again for organising another awesome trip, great company, well chosen routes, fantastic views, glorious sunshine, and perhaps one of the coldest nights sleeping out since I kipped on the side of Mont Blanc !

Who said you can't find it all in the UK, although on Saturday it was a bit 'four seasons in a day' !  

Thanks for the pictures posted on the web site, and yes Paul, you are quite right, it was all the car that got me through !!

(note to self, next time realise that the diff lock would be a good idea at the rock step!)

Thanks again , and hope to be joining you again soon

Just a few lines to say thanks for the weekend. Bearing in mind that it was my first every off road experience as a complete 4X4 novice – (the car was better prepared than me)  I can honestly say it was a driving test for myself more than a capability test for the car – it was an experience that I thoroughly enjoyed – I probably learnt more about the capability of my car – and how to drive it – over ‘your weekend’ than over the past two years road & track driving.  It was also interesting to see completely standard 4X4’s on the event and how well they performed and that everyone finished.  One of my other aims was to look at some of the equipment people were using ‘inside’ the cars – cookers/seats/tents/water carriers/ sat nav stuff, etc- to see what was needed and what worked for a longer off road experience.

The routes were great and the scenery was stunning. I will be finishing off the few things I need to do on the car and I’ll be with you later this year in Morocco

Paul

I would like to thank you for leading the Tunisian trip and say how much I enjoyed it. The organisation was excellent and your professionalism and experience are second to none. The equipment you carried was very impressive – the moving map display on your laptop, for example, was particularly reassuring when the weather deteriorated in the sand storm. It was also good to have a satellite phone available.

I hope you have a successful 2009 and look forward to joining you in Morocco later in the year.

Hi Paul  

We would like to thank you for One Great Trip, One Great Adventure, One Fantastic Holiday, lead by a True Professional. Totally faultless.

When you get compliments from a Yorkshireman you must have got it right!!!  

A lgeria 2008

   L oved every second

      G reat fun                                                                                 

         E xcellent                                                                            

            R iding the dunes

                 I ncredible scenery                                                        Thanks again    

                    A nd finally..........Hotel Kasbah                                  Looking forward to 2009

We had a truely memorable and enjoyable trip, and the photos and stories have been distributed far and wide. Your organisation and professionalism are of the highest order, and your unfailing courtesy and patience were commendable. Thhnk you also for the CD with all the trips photos, which were top class and have been widely admired. We'll definately would like to do another trip and are thinking already of when and where.

I just want to say a big thanks to you for such a great trip weekend. As I am sure you could tell...I am certainly no camper. Although it was torrential rain with gale force winds, and I was cold, wet, muddy, hungry and tired with no sign of a toilet or shower for days.....I had the best time ever! Thanks to everyone for being so nice and making the trip absolutely brilliant.   On a very sunny (how ironic) Monday morning in Leeds I was sat on the M1 for an hour in traffic on my daily commute, surrounded by grumpy drivers. All I could do was smile, as I knew I was surrounded by people who had spent their weekend cleaning, shopping or just being hungover....whereas I on the other hand was driving through rivers, up rocks and across mountains wearing bright pink wellies with a great bunch of people. My colleagues and friends cannot believe I actually went on the trip....let alone have such a good time. We are planning to go again later on this year. Thanks to Paul and Anne...aka "The Oracles of the Mountains", you guys are ace :oD

Hi Paul and Anne

We had a great time despite the weather this weekend; it was really good to finally see some of what the car is capable of doing after spending so many hours working on it!  Seeing all the other vehicles on the weekend also gave us a few ideas of improvements to make to ours before we head for Australia

Hi Paul

Thanks for a great weekend - it was really good to put our new toy (and me) to a bit of a test and I am starting to feel a bit more confident (dangerous!).

Cheers

Jerry

Hi Paul

Thank you for a fantastic weekend in North Yorkshire, a very good mixture of lanes throughout the weekend and some very testing ones too but the main thing is I managed to complete them without any damage (or bits falling off as some of the group commented) or the need to be recovered (bonus), believe me it was great fun in the Freelander (that underbody protection was worth the investment) and thanks for the jubilee clips for the minor adjustment needed to keep the exhaust from vibrating on the guard after it had a few encounters with the local stone!

Good choice of camp sites especially the second night.....what a view and the landlord, what a character, but at least he served good ale and good food. I'm looking forward to the next adventure, so I'd be greatful if you could keep me posted and let me know which ones would be best suited for the Freelander.

Best Regards
David and Graeme

Dear Anne and Paul,

Last weekend was extremely enjoyable for all. Even Charlotte and Jamie managed not to squabble for three days which is not often done.  I must admit I was not sure what we letting ourselves in for, but all turned out well and exceeded expectations. Certainly something to repeat as soon as time allows and I'll make sure my wife Caroline comes along also next time. I certainly learnt a lot in a few days in Wales.  My thanks to both of you for your organisation and help over the weekend and hopefully see you again soon.

Regards, Julian

Anne & Paul

Sorry for the delay in responding but I would just like to say both Judy and myself enjoyed the weekend. From my point of view the whole thing is pitched just right, it was also very informative. The level of support provided by yourselves and Eddie is also very commendable given the odd vehicular hiccup. I am unlikely to be away again this year because of the dreaded "W" word, but we will no doubt see you again, and wish you well with your travels.

Phil

Ps... I would recommend Onelife Adventures to any of your future clients pls. feel free to pass on my recommendations.

Thank you very much for the lovely photos and a fantastic weekend. The whole family had a great time especially the children. We very much appreciated the effort you both made to look after us and the car. We will definately be going with you on another weekend later in the year.

Many thanks again for a superb weekend

Regards, Chris

We all had a great time - well done for planning it so well.  We thought the combination of routes, campsites, scenery and the good company all added to a great weekend. We've arrived home with lots of ideas of future things to do and lots of places to go.

Many thanks for everything, look forward to meeting you again soon.

We had a great time and really found it a learning experience, whet we can or can't do and equally what we would like to do in the future, in terms of the vehicle and our travel plans !

Hope fully if its not fully booked we would like to join you in August.

Once again thanks for the weekend, thoroughly enjoyed it.

I had a fantastic trip, well organised to the point of being practically perfect, intelligently hosted by experienced Expedition leaders who have travelled extensively, often informing us of geological, ecological, biological and cultural issues along the way, they handled everything, involving us as and when group decisions were needed. They sorted complicated passport and vehicle documentation problems, they communicated with the local people to make our trip unique rather than following the well established and published tourist routes. The route planning was exceptional including a sensible amount of previously un-reccyed off road routes making our trip even more special, these routes just happened to be exceptional in terms of off road and scenery. The distances travelled each day were carefully calculated to ensure we were not unnessarily fatigued and to enable us to reach camp in good time. They even cooked for us all on a couple of occaisions. I can say that I doubt very much that any other UK based tour operator could have provided anywhere near the whole 'Morocco Experience' that we had. There were a couple of mechanical problems to be overcome on the trip and Paul was willing and able to get stuck in and turn the problems into an educational exersize, as of course "these things happen on expedition". There are a number of requirements to becoming a good expedition leader, most of which are obvious, but to me vital qualities include being a good comminicator and an entertainer, to be able to appreciate the requirements of a mix of characters and their abilities and to tune the trip regardless of the itinerary to suit them.  

Onelife Adventure/Paul and Anne........ second to none!  

Paul and Anne!  

Thanks for an ace weekend and for being such welcoming hosts.  Despite lacking the experience of the other drivers, you still made our group of young folk feel welcome! It was quite an eye opener, as both off roading and expeditions always seemed like one of those things other people did, but obviously not!   You've given me a taster of what I'd like to experience before I tie myself down to real grown up life!

Hope to see you again in 2007- somewhere with more sand, heat and mossies!  

Thanks again from both myself and Olly 

Sam

We have just enjoyed true adventure, perhaps the only real life adventure left open to ordinary folks like us.    The Moroccan scenery -  majestic and ever changing.  The routes challenging but managable with just that hint of excitement.

Thanks from Jeniffer & I for your care and attention and for our most memorable time with OneLife Adventure

We strongly recommend anyone planning their own vehicle dependent expedition - regardless of the length of time or destination - to book themselves on a OneLife Adventure weekend. The experience, knowledge and confidence gained just in 2 days by participating in the Wales Explorer was tremendous. The weekend will far exceed your expectations, but be warned, it's addictive!"

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