Haarlem Jamborette: July 2011

Sunday, 31 July 2011

Opennning

We are now at the opening ceremony, which will finish at 1045. There should be some pictures on the main haarlem jamborette website look for the flickr symbol : two round dots.
Tomorrow its an early start as
were off to the theme .park.

More updates later, or tomorrow after the theme park.

Sunday mini update

This Afternoon, the first activities have satarted on site, a sort of warm up for the coming days, with a few sub camp activities to get things moving.
These have consisted of a few games such as tug of war and a few other activities involving large polystyrene blocks.
Later on the main opening ceremony wall take place and we are soon going to start getting things ready for the evening meal.
Sam L has just passed by and he says " hi" so far sam has enjoyed taking part in the dance activity to the subcamp song.

I will try and get some photos up of our camp area, the ground is dry, and were not too far from everything ( incl toilets, and showers)
The scouts have been put into three groups to help with food cooking, washing up, and keeping the camp aea tidy.
Next to us are Madla SCouts form Norway, on the other side, a group from Luxembourg, and just arrived today - 1st Mayo Scouts from Ireland.
more later - trev.

Tv interview

Scouts on dutch tv

Tv interview

Scouts on Dutch tv

Into the second day

Affter arriving on site we soon managed to set up our tents, and start buildiing the table/eating area.

Soon after that was done it was time to start our first evening meal, the ingredients for which were fetched from the subcamp food tent:

tomato soup with meatballs and noodles and hotdogs.

This morning weve had breakfast, and the Scouts have a bit of free time before lunch then at about 2:30 there should be a few activities starting on the site, before the main opening ceromony this evening.

Tommorow, it looks like an early start, as were all off to a theme park - wallibi world for the day.

Ellis is just passsing by and has said "im enjoying it and so far its a good laugh"

As for photos, weve been photogrpahed arriving at the airport, and at other times on site, so keep an eye on the main haarlem jamborette website, and as far as photos on this blog go, i will try and get a few more up, as when and if i can ( they may be a bit more random as im having a ferw network/email problems )

another update soon - trev.

Saturday, 30 July 2011

Eccleshall arrivred

Eccleshall arrivred earlier
Hopefully theaters a photo attached

Eccleshall arrived

Eccleshall arrivred earlier this afternoon

Internet tent

They've found the internet tent

Eccleshall have arrivred

And are just setting up behind us

Arrived on site

So far so good, first tent going up

Arrived on site

So far so good, first tent going up

Arrivred

Now its time.to set up camp

Arrived at amsterdam

Just arrived at amsterdam schiphol next stop the campsite.

Times on this bog: at the moment the times and dates are slightly out I wil try andfix this when I can.