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Summer Festival: Glastonbury Festival
We couldn’t let our British summer festivals feature slip by without a preview of one of the most iconic of them all – Glastonbury Festival. The festival as we know it today dates back to 1970 when dairy farmer Michael Eavis held an event called the Pilton Pop, Blues & Folk Festival. The one day [...]
Summer Festival: Isle of Wight Festival
Continuing our look at some of the best British summer music festivals we preview this years edition of a festival which dates back to 1968 – the Isle of Wight Festival. Unsurprisingly the festival takes place on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. The original festivals which took place between 1968 and [...]
Summer Festival: Lounge On The Farm
In our new feature on the Sixt blog we wanted to preview some of the top British summer music festivals and what better way to kick start the series than with a festival that is growing in popularity every year – Lounge On The Farm. Lounge On The Farm first started in 2006 and this year [...]
Airbus crashes into CRJ-700 at JFK!
I watched the Airbus collision on the news last month. I can’t stand to see the big guys pushing the little guys around, what gives the Airbus A380 the right to park on top of another aeroplane? Yes you may be the largest aeroplane in the world but that doesn’t mean you don’t show some [...]
Orange Seasons
I started working in Sixt Doha, Qatar, which is now one of the richest countries in the Gulf States due to the exploitation of large oil and gas fields. It’s a country where it seems that the whole year is summer. I experienced temperatures as high as 52 degree Celsius whilst renting out cars and [...]
