Young Finch and I attended Scout DHQ last night for a Jamboree meeting, he is very very keen to attend in Sweden 2011, it looks a hell of a trip, they are away for 3 weeks or so, starting off in Copenhagen for 3 days then the Jamboree and then off to stay with a family in either, Finland, Poland, Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania. The young is very fired up and will have to attend a selection weekend in January. Only one other Explorer from his unit want to attend, a few of the older ones attended the UK version 2 years ago. Talking to Paul a good mate and the 2007 Unit Leader he reckons I should put my hat in the ring to attend Japan in 2015 as one of the Unit Leaders, by then young Finch will at Uni hopefully, so 3 weeks away would not be an issue!
This years Jamboree leader is Debbie, who also happens to be organising our ski trip to Switzerland, we were chatting about the ski trip last night, seems we will be getting a healthy discount on our ski clothing hire!
We are booked in to visit our friends in Conde Folie, France, and a trip to the Somme trenches is planned as well as a days duck hunting with the locals, having seen these lunatics running around the Picardy countryside with guns it should be very interesting! We are off in half term week February, Young Finch cannot wait neither can I as the locals are very welcoming especially my mate Michel in Bar Tabac, my little bolt hole for an early morning coffee and bad attempts at speaking French with the locals.