But now its stopped
Monday, 8 August 2011
Sunday, 7 August 2011
Were on youtube
Those of us who went on the beautvaart were followed by the media team who have uploaded a video to youtube, featuring some of our scouts and its quite good,
m.youtube.com/profile?desktop_uri=%2Fhaarlemjamborette&user=haarlemjamborette&gl=US
if that doesn't work go to the main haarlem jamborette website and click on the you tubue logo and look for beautvaart.
End of day 8
The scouts got as far as the subcamp frisbee semi final but were knocked out by 1st mayo scouts, from ireland.
The scouts and leaders are currently at club recharge/mokkie, due.back on site at the slightly earlier time of 10 30 as the next few nights are going to be busy.
Tomorow its the day off, and were off to the swimming pool (or maybe a beach )and the on to haarlen for some shops.
More later, and as I've got my power supply problems sorted some photos as well.
Photos
The rain has stopped, the skies clearing, hopefully tommorow will stay dry and the sun wil dry the puddles up, here are some photos from earlier,
Saturday, 6 August 2011
Boat trip website
for those of us who went on the boat trip - the wesbite is http://www.ws-koophandel.nl/wsk/
and its facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/Koophandel
hopefully some photos soon...
and its facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/Koophandel
hopefully some photos soon...
Back up and running on back up ( and internet tent )
so they took part in kareoke, and then just as we were below decks the heavens opened up ( although we hardly noticed) once back on site it was time to get the evening meal ready - chciken drumsticks fried potato slices and mixed veg.
soon after theat the rain came back, and tonights planned campfire has now been postponed, at the moment its still raining hard, although the forcast for tommorow is somewhat better.
Tommorow its the refelection/open day/market day so its an easy day on site ( we need it as the Scouts - and leaders are all begining to get tired ) folowed by a day out on monday - posibly to the beach at zandvoort or to a swimming pool ( sljotpark?) then a trip to the shops ( Haarlem ?)
Hopefuly later this evening i will get my main battery pack charged up again - as its been keeping everything going throughout the camp so far and im now on my backup supplies.
More later - with some photos ( ive got some video of the kareoke, and the rest of the aqau trips - but i cant post it so still photos will have to do
more in just a moment..
soon after theat the rain came back, and tonights planned campfire has now been postponed, at the moment its still raining hard, although the forcast for tommorow is somewhat better.
Tommorow its the refelection/open day/market day so its an easy day on site ( we need it as the Scouts - and leaders are all begining to get tired ) folowed by a day out on monday - posibly to the beach at zandvoort or to a swimming pool ( sljotpark?) then a trip to the shops ( Haarlem ?)
Hopefuly later this evening i will get my main battery pack charged up again - as its been keeping everything going throughout the camp so far and im now on my backup supplies.
More later - with some photos ( ive got some video of the kareoke, and the rest of the aqau trips - but i cant post it so still photos will have to do
more in just a moment..
Boat trip
So far they have had a swim, had lunch and played some games on the island, soon we will be seting off again, with more games and kareoke on board, right now there having another swim.
Weather wise its still hot and sticky, with sunny spells.
boat trip
After a trip along the water way we have moored up the scouts have had a chance tto go for a swim , had some lunch and are now taking part in a few games on the island.
We are also being filmed and photographed by the haarlem jamborette.media team.
Boat trip
Joining us on the boat trip are the haarlen jamborette media team, so there should be plenty of stuff posted to the official camp facebook, twitter, and.websites, as well as the links above
Boat trip
Some of us are on the boat trip, follow us on twitter at http://www.twiter.com/wskoophandel
Www.facebook.com/Koophandel
Goodnight
Its 1150, there all back after the disco, and in their tents, tomorow we start at 6:45., the boat trip bus departs at 745. More tommorow.
Friday, 5 August 2011
Friday disco
There currently at the disco, and its water activities tomorow, some all day on the boat trip or sailing, some spending half the day scuba diving, and canoing.
Friday 5th August
after a damp evening last night the sun has come back outagain, and its yet another hot day.
As today activities are all on site the scouts have had a chance to have a lie in today.
today its sports, and the Scouts are split into two groups, one group is on smaller co-operative games, such as 4 way football, flinging bottles into a counterbalanced bucket, something involving 4 helemets attached to each other an obstacle course and some cups of water. and for the bigger games, two wide games out in the shady wooded areas around and on site.
This afternoon those on the smaller co-op games will swap with those on the wide games, and activites coming to an end for today at 4pm.
thats just before the evening stuff starts, tonight its the Disco in the main arena, and this finishes at 11:30pm, tomorow were out and about on the aqua activities - so for some it could be an early start.
So the plan just now is to head back to camp, ask the Scouts to tidy their tents, drink plenty of fluids and after this evenings meal we may have a rest period.
As today activities are all on site the scouts have had a chance to have a lie in today.
today its sports, and the Scouts are split into two groups, one group is on smaller co-operative games, such as 4 way football, flinging bottles into a counterbalanced bucket, something involving 4 helemets attached to each other an obstacle course and some cups of water. and for the bigger games, two wide games out in the shady wooded areas around and on site.
This afternoon those on the smaller co-op games will swap with those on the wide games, and activites coming to an end for today at 4pm.
thats just before the evening stuff starts, tonight its the Disco in the main arena, and this finishes at 11:30pm, tomorow were out and about on the aqua activities - so for some it could be an early start.
So the plan just now is to head back to camp, ask the Scouts to tidy their tents, drink plenty of fluids and after this evenings meal we may have a rest period.
Friday morning
After a few early starts and late nights the scouts have had a lie in and are now just getting up, today its sports, and later this evening, its the disco, which finishes at 11.30, more later...
Thursday, 4 August 2011
Photos on this blog..
most, if not all the photos that i am uploading have been greatly rduced in size and quality, this is so i can upload them over a mobile network.
the size is 640X480 after the camp i will make a DVD disc available with all the photos at their full high quality size.
the size is 640X480 after the camp i will make a DVD disc available with all the photos at their full high quality size.
Thursday 4th August ( lost track of how many days in )
So today weve had jambo tours, one group went to Amsterdam for the Brainiac tour, the other to Haarlem for the High voltage tour.
Henry, who went to Amsterdam said.."we went to the amsterdam scince museum, called nemo, it was realy realy fun, afterwards, we tried to go to the ann frank muesuem, but there was such a long que that we couldnt get in. so we had a bit of free time in Amsterdam.
Max, who went to the high voltage tour said " after we got off the bus we went to an old church that was 500 years old, and we had atour round there, the floor was made out of gravestones, (1,500 ) after that we went in the attic, and the floor felt like it was going to fall down any minute, then we left and went to a park to have lunch, and Dave fell asleep! the we had some free time walking round the shops in groups of three. :)
Trev - "what do you think of the camp so far max?"
Max sys: "one of the best camp camps so far, brilliant so far"
So thats that, i may be able to post some photos from the brainiac tour ( amsterdam) later, but i dont have any from the high votlage tour, as dave was on that one and he says his camera has broken ( or he doesnt know how to make it turn on )
Tommorow it Sports on the activity schedule, if you have a look at the photos on the main website you should get a good idea of whats comming.
Weather wise, its been yet another hot day, with a few heavy showeres this evening, although these seem to have stopped for now.
More photos later, all being well.
Henry, who went to Amsterdam said.."we went to the amsterdam scince museum, called nemo, it was realy realy fun, afterwards, we tried to go to the ann frank muesuem, but there was such a long que that we couldnt get in. so we had a bit of free time in Amsterdam.
Max, who went to the high voltage tour said " after we got off the bus we went to an old church that was 500 years old, and we had atour round there, the floor was made out of gravestones, (1,500 ) after that we went in the attic, and the floor felt like it was going to fall down any minute, then we left and went to a park to have lunch, and Dave fell asleep! the we had some free time walking round the shops in groups of three. :)
Trev - "what do you think of the camp so far max?"
Max sys: "one of the best camp camps so far, brilliant so far"
So thats that, i may be able to post some photos from the brainiac tour ( amsterdam) later, but i dont have any from the high votlage tour, as dave was on that one and he says his camera has broken ( or he doesnt know how to make it turn on )
Tommorow it Sports on the activity schedule, if you have a look at the photos on the main website you should get a good idea of whats comming.
Weather wise, its been yet another hot day, with a few heavy showeres this evening, although these seem to have stopped for now.
More photos later, all being well.
Amsterdam
So the plan was to go to the anne frank house, although when we got there the que to get in was huge and over an hour long, so instead we had a breif look round the shops.
Were now allback on site, more later.
Amsterdam
We've just been round the nemo science discovery center, now lunch then the ann frank house.
Jambo tours
Today its jambo tours, one group has gone to haarle.m and one group with hellen, stuart and me are off to amsterdam.
Wednesday, 3 August 2011
Woah, end of day five
The internet tent is closed.so this.wil be quick.
Today it was hikes, tomorow its jambo tours, one group to haarlem, one to amsterdam.
More tomorow.
Hikes - just got back
Weve just arrived back on site here at the haarlem jamborette, the weathers turned a little damp, but its still warm, unlike he last tiume in 2007, we didnt get lost :) although having a GPS equiped phone pre loaded with maps for the area helped a little ;)
Helen and Dave are with some of the Scouts on a city hike, Kinglsey and Stuart are still out on the polder hike, and my group is the first back the Scouts who have returned have now got some free time, and im off to get a shower - more later
Helen and Dave are with some of the Scouts on a city hike, Kinglsey and Stuart are still out on the polder hike, and my group is the first back the Scouts who have returned have now got some free time, and im off to get a shower - more later
Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Cleaning rota
Each group at the haarlem jamborette has to help with a few things on site, tonight its our turn to help clean the showers
Good evening
So after the trail everyone is st club recharge, then bed.
Tomorrow its hikes, we are split into three groups, each with at least one leader, city hike with dave and helen, polder hike with kingsley and stuart, and the slightly more technical invent your own hike with me the two dans helping.
More later perhaps, if not more tomorow.
Afternoon :)
A warm sunny morning has now given way to a hot afternoon here at the haarlem jamborette, although a nice breeze has just started making it feel slightly ( though not much ) fresher - its still hot.
Weve now fixed then tarp to the table/shelter ( pictures coming soon of our camp area ) and as this morning its just a case of making sure everyones had loads to drink.
The Scouts are on is afternoons activites which is another session on the trail ( but different activities this time) so far so good, and ive been realy impresssed by the way that the our Scouts have been mixing and socialising with the rest of the scouts on site from around the world.
Tommorow were off on Hikes, Probably the polderhike an/or he city hike, as the Drop of hike for over 14s is over 25km long, and requires a start time of 0530am ! ( the two dans didnt seem to keen on this )
As it was in 2007, when i was here last the evening activities go on to 11pm, with music ( live bands/DJs ) in club recharge, and a very busy chip van outside, selling amongst the obvious some Dutch snacks such as kroketen and cheese waffle things.
Im now off to track down an ice cream, and then to see what the Scouts are upto. - more later, and possibly some more photos as well.
Weve now fixed then tarp to the table/shelter ( pictures coming soon of our camp area ) and as this morning its just a case of making sure everyones had loads to drink.
The Scouts are on is afternoons activites which is another session on the trail ( but different activities this time) so far so good, and ive been realy impresssed by the way that the our Scouts have been mixing and socialising with the rest of the scouts on site from around the world.
Tommorow were off on Hikes, Probably the polderhike an/or he city hike, as the Drop of hike for over 14s is over 25km long, and requires a start time of 0530am ! ( the two dans didnt seem to keen on this )
As it was in 2007, when i was here last the evening activities go on to 11pm, with music ( live bands/DJs ) in club recharge, and a very busy chip van outside, selling amongst the obvious some Dutch snacks such as kroketen and cheese waffle things.
Im now off to track down an ice cream, and then to see what the Scouts are upto. - more later, and possibly some more photos as well.
Tuesday update
After the opening cermony finished we were all back on site for 11:15 and then it was off to bed, as on Monday we all went off to the theme park - this involved having to get up early to be at the bus pick up point on time.
Everyone made it back to the meet point on time, for lunch, and again they were all on time at the meet up point for the return trip back to camp.
after we picked up the ingredients and prepared our evening meal: Schnitzel, potatoes and fresh beans, the Scouts had a bit of free time round the campsite, and then it was on to the central area, as club recharge swung into action with everone back on site once everything had finished.
We have been switched from Subcamp Haarlem A to Subcamp Haarlem B so our activiy shedule is a little different, Today we have got the Activity trial, which consists of several different team based activites, all based round basic and slightly more complex poineering projects.
At the moment, and if the hot weather continues its a case of making sure that the Scouts ( and other leaders!!) are drinking plenty of water, wearing hats, and suncream etc.
A s ever keep an eye on the official website, as we have all been photographed, filmed, and interviewd for Dutch TV at several points throughtout the camp so far.
More later, and a few photos as well - trev.
As for tommorow weve got the water activities.
More later ( and possibly a few photos )
Everyone made it back to the meet point on time, for lunch, and again they were all on time at the meet up point for the return trip back to camp.
after we picked up the ingredients and prepared our evening meal: Schnitzel, potatoes and fresh beans, the Scouts had a bit of free time round the campsite, and then it was on to the central area, as club recharge swung into action with everone back on site once everything had finished.
We have been switched from Subcamp Haarlem A to Subcamp Haarlem B so our activiy shedule is a little different, Today we have got the Activity trial, which consists of several different team based activites, all based round basic and slightly more complex poineering projects.
At the moment, and if the hot weather continues its a case of making sure that the Scouts ( and other leaders!!) are drinking plenty of water, wearing hats, and suncream etc.
A s ever keep an eye on the official website, as we have all been photographed, filmed, and interviewd for Dutch TV at several points throughtout the camp so far.
More later, and a few photos as well - trev.
As for tommorow weve got the water activities.
More later ( and possibly a few photos )
Monday, 1 August 2011
A few photos from yesterday
Tug ofwar wining team
Winners get to pull chariot to opennning
Openingcermony
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