Unit 10 AKA Mike Bennion's Barmy Army are Home!
After the Watersports activities and BBQ finished at around 9pm,
we returned to the Scout hostel, where most of the Unit were now
staying due to the early departure time the following day.
At 3am, everyone was woken (or for most of the unit - were told
to turn their movie off!) to start cleaning up the house ready for
departure.
Eventually we left via coach at an unknown hour and arrived at
the Airport around 5am-ish.
After a quick breakfast - of anything we wanted under 1000
krona! (around £5.80), we had a bit of time to walk around the
airport before our 8am flight.
We landed at around 11.30 UK time and then by 12.30 we were at
Lymm service station to be re-united with families!
With the Unit leaders in tears.... (Mostly Laura) It was finally
time to leave the service station and say goodbye to the Unit we
have spent the past 18 months training with.
On behalf of the unit: A big thank you to everyone
that has supported the Unit over the past 18 months and a MASSIVE
thank you to the Unit leaders that have made all of this possible.
Thank you for an amazing time and such a brilliant 3 weeks!
Craig
Unit 10 HOHO Iceland
update
Day 4
After a tiring day walking, the day before, most of the
unit met outside the scout centre mid-morning. We walked up to
the bus stop and got a bus into the centre of Reykjavik.
After a few hours shopping, the group met outside the church,
before we split different ways, with most of the group returning to
their hoho families, and the rest of the group heading off to Blue
Lagoon - a natural thermal spa!
It was truly amazing, and after several hours spent there, the
leaders persuaded the bus driver to drop us off outside the scout
centre - rather than in Reykjavik - a good 15\20 mins away!
Day 5
Today the whole unit (well at least most of it) is due to
meet for a day of water activities and a BBQ by a local lake!
Posted 10-08-11
Unit 10 HOHO Iceland
update
Day 1
After waking up at about 6am at the Jamboree site, we left for
copenhagen via bus for our 2pm flight. The flight was on time, and
we landed in Iceland at around 3.15 (local time) (Iceland is 2
hours behind sweden and 1 hour behind UK)
After a coach journey of at least an hour, we arrived at the
local scout centre in Mosverjar.
The groups all split up leaving for different families in
different places, with 9 lads and the 4 leaders staying at the
scout centre due to not enough hoho families - (Parents, dont
worry! They are having a fabulous time!)
After a long day, and a giant KFC meals - 48 pieces of
chicken, 8 jumbo bags of chips, 8 pots of gravy, 12 pots of
coleslaw, 8 litres of coke, 8 pots of an unsure sauce - for 13
people it was time for bed!
+NOTE+ the following day-by-day is done by Craig (who is staying
at the scout centre - not everyone has done the same as us!)
Day 2
After a lie in till around 10.30am, we woke up and had
breakfast before having a chill out morning, and then going to the
local swimming pool at 2pm, which contained 3 different water
slides and numerous pool and hot tubs. Many members of the unit
went swimming.
At around 4pm, we left the pool to return to the scout hostel
where we spent a brief time before going on a coach journey, with
some of the others in the unit around some geysers, waterfalls and
the tectonic plates - brilliant - before returning to the scout
hostel at around 11.30pm
Day 3
After getting up at around 8.30 - ish! We met outside the
scout hostel for a hike. Around 30 people went on this hike. The
hike went on for around 7 hours, walking to freezing cold waterfall
and back and admiring the local scenery!
Arrived back at the youth hostel around 5pm and are now waiting to
go out to one of the hosts house for a meal!
Culture Festival
Posted 05/08/2011
We had culture festival yesterday where we served scones and tea
to people from all over the world whilst dressed as a deck of
cards, Alice, a mad hatter, white rabbit and tweedle dee and
tweedle dum! ha We then went down to the main arena and had a
party.
We sat at the front of the arena and all the unit were impressed
when they turned around and saw the rest of Jamboree in one field.
Last night there was about 48, 000 on site as we had a thankyou
party for the hosts of camp in camp.
There was hilarious dancing going on from members of our
unit...no names being mentioned!
Today is our last day of activities...bit sad really. Nobody
wants to go home. I think quite a few of the participants have
caught the jamboree bug!
Laura Dyer
First day at the Jamboree
Posted 31/07/2011
First full day on the Jamboree site was spent assembling
everything from camp gadgets to gateways to, erm, aquiring some
extra tables :) We then had the afternoon to mooch around the site.
There are so many countries you can not even imagine, let alone put
into words, what the site is like. We`ve met people from Japan,
Mexico, America, Australia, Guatamala, India, and Papa New Guinea
to name but a few! After our mooch, we started to gather for the
opening ceremony. Hearing the hokey-cokey, conga and heads
shoulders knees and toes in several different languages, with
hundereds of people around us. This was just collecting into a
group to go down to the ceremony itself! After what can only be
described as a cross between swimming, parading and dancing down to
the main stage area, the atmosphere was beyond electric. We all sat
down, next to people from poland, latvia and france as the noise
and numbers continued to build. As the lights went up on the stage,
one of the camp chiefs came onto the stage to announce a moments
silence for the appalling events in Norway. The atmosphere suddenly
changed and we were all stunned with the way all 38000 suddenly
fell completely silent and stood up and made the scout signs to pay
there respects. Made us all realise how similar we are, no matter
what language we talk in... The party then started, Bear Grylls
abseiling in, lots of singing and dancing mixed in with some back
ground information about Sweden. Including Abba, obviously. Was
absolutely fantastic, especially when we all did the plop to set a
new world record.
Luke Thornton
Copenhagen and UK Party
Posted 30/07/2011
After a late night at the party, we have a bit of time to
shop in Copenhagen before our supposedly 12 noon bus......Finally
at 3pm we left for Jamboree after a very sunny day! After around a
15 minute walk from the buses to the campsite we found our
site.....just without tents! A few hours later and the tents,
dining shelter are up before the meal is cooked and an early(ish)
night!
Craig Ellis
Day 2 of Copenhagen
Massive party with everyone from Britain, over 4,000 people
there. everyone had an amazing time and the atmosphere was
amaaaaazing! that was at night. in the day we had some free time to
look around copenhagen and meet other people going to the jamboree,
the weather was beautiful that day and it was really interesting to
learn about the history and meet the other people.
Davyd
Edwards