Posted by Admin | Posted in Camp 2009 | Posted on 08-07-2009
Well, We’re here! Day 1 over & all safe & well. The travel all worked out fairly well. Day 1 left us tired & wet, but fairly happy! Rather than me telling you about it, I’d prefer to let one of our Discovery Scouts!
He says:
As we all went up around 11pm on Monday, it seemed to be a Scout meeting like any other.
We talked, we joked. Then we looked closer, and saw that ordinary Scout meetings didn’t normally happen at 11:30pm, didn’t normally involve huge amounts of luggage or huge amounts of parents. Something was different – we were going to Kandersteg.
At around 12:30 we departed for Dublin airport. The journey passed in a tired haze of music and conversation. And a slightly less tired haze of fizzy drink consumption. On arriving in Dublin we setout to checkin. The next few hours were uneventful – suffice it to say, we checked in.
We set off on the plane, with no visible wounds.
We arrived in Bergamo to calls of “Italy isn’t in Switzerland, is it?” and “I’m sure your ears will pop eventually Daniel”. (It still hasn’t – thanks for asking).
The following car journey to Kandersteg was long and in the vein of the Oddysey. Notable highlights included the amazing recurring toll booths, a WWF style showdown between a car driver and a truck driver – who clung to the fact that as a truck driver, he was excempt from the law.
And finally, the final highlight (which is what can be described without exaggeration) as the greatest invention of the Swiss since neutrality – the car carrying train. The shock of seeing this for the first time was like hearing Dr King speak for the first time.
We finally arrived in Kandersteg – alive with excitement. And then the rain started. And then we forgot how to put up tents. And then the rain continued. We retired to bed after a meal of pasta & bread. Wet, tired, but silently proud of having stayed up for 38 hours without collapsing.
That’s about it for day1