Here it is, the actual 100th Birthday of Scouting, 1st August 1907 to 1st August 2007, some 23 Scouts (everyone forgets that Baden-Powell counts aswell) started the movement on Brownsea Island at 8am to the sound of 3 blasts from a Kudu horn. Now a century later, at 28 million members Worldwide, we’re the largest uniformed youth movement....read more »
If anyone has ever had to experience “split shifts” they’ll know how frustrating they can be, up at 7am work half an 8 hour shift then do the other half at the end of the day. Essentially giving you a very long lunch and a very long day. Today was such a day for me, 7 till 11 in the AM and then the same hours int he PM. This had the benefit of opening up the entire day to browse Hylands Park and the bus loads (literally) of activities going on....read more »
After a thoroughly relaxing nights sleep I felt truly ready to take on this leviathan of a Jamboree. First port of call was breakfast, served by the horrendously bad Sedexo whom served at EuroJam. With the shear volume of Health and Safety regulations the broke; serving mouldy food, appalling menu options and often not enough for everyone, so why they got the
I’ve finally made it to the World Scout Jamboree! I’ve been counting down to this ever since I went to
My first day started at around 4am, a quick shower, pack the last little bits in the car, a cup of tea and setting off. I arrived at North Weald Aerodrome at 6:30am to place my car in it’s residence for the next 3 weeks. Not even having arrived at the main site already I was off to a good start, first person I meet was from Germany, and they were emerging from their camper van having driven through the night with the extra kit for his Unit. ...read more »
Behold, I present Allstar’s Mischievous Neckered Pedestrian Camper’s Landscape Overview of the World Scout Jamboree. This little map shows Hylands park in photo format from the sky with the planned individual locations of the Tents used by the Jamboree ( ie not Unit or Staff tents ). Whilst there maybe some changes from the plan most will be in the correct location so its a useful guide at least....read more »
A lot of people have seen the Jamboree campsite map posted on the Official website. I didn’t like that it didn’t give much perspective of how large the site really is so I composed this map with the above as an overlay and satellite imagery as the base....read more »
