The opening ceremony had been billed as starting at 9:00am. Everyone had got up really early, had packed their tents and put all their luggage on army lorries, ready to transport them to their various expedition centres. The Europeans, at least, were seated in the main arena at 8:30am as requested. I began to realise…
I see that there has been a ‘severe weather warning’ in Britain over the weekend, because it has snowed and there has been as much as two inches of the white and powdery stuff in places. Ha! That’s nothing, compared with the Haute Savoie on the border between France and Switzerland just outside Geneva. I…
So that’s it then. I’ve just left the closing ceremony of the 21st World Scout Jamboree. Outside Jamboree HQ, in the arena, 40,000 young people and their Leaders are partying. We’ve handed the World Scout Flag on to Sweden, who’ll be hosting the next Jamboree in 2011; we’ve heard the Secretary General of the World…
