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I’ve just about recovered from my first Jamboree! Well… I did the build and went as a day visitor to the 21st WSJ, but this is my first time as a participant. And I absolutely loved it.

We took 8 scouts, 1 cub, 3 leaders, 3 cars and 5 tents to the Essex International Jamboree 2008. We were on the Pygmy hippo (Pink neckers!) subcamp and through 7 days, our Scouts did climbing, abseiling, quadbiking, go-karts, rifle shooting, archery, parkour, scuba diving, mountain biking, swimming, kayaking, scrap heap challenge, assault course, it’s a knockout, pizza making, incident challenge and much more. We took part in an international food festival (we were the ones with corned-beef hash, vimto and Uncle Joe’s mintballs) and took part in some (sadly, not all) of the themed dress days (trash, and subcamp colours). Over half our Scouts earned the Global Explorer badge – the rest were too busy chatting up the Israeli girls, which is fair enough.

Here are some of the best bits: