Wow!!!
What a fantastic experience! Thank you to all involved and all who helped (inc. Charlie and Claire's parents for putting us up and feeding us lovely food) and also our supporters at home (family, partners, scout groups, friends).
Also thanks to all those who signed up for this, you guys made the Explorer Belt what it was.
I promise to try get my photos up soon, there's 1.45G of them so struggling to end them, Charlie looks like you'll get them on disk from me.
Poor Colin has heard nothing else since, he'll be glad he's away this weekend for a break. To think I wasn't going to sign up for it and miss out on the experience.
more news soon re presentations etc.
Friday, 9 April 2010
Saturday, 3 April 2010
Home - Bed Calling
Hi everybody,
Well, after a 553 mile drive today, the Jools truck made it back to Andover,
via Nigels to "threw him out the door" as Fran put it,
to Sevenoaks to meet a random stanger called Colin to give him Carla's rucksack and two tents (apparently they were his),
to Godalming to leave loads of kit in the door way of a house reportedly lived in on occasions by Charlie and Claire (and to pick up a lovelly goody back with scrummy bits in, thank you everybody)
to Basingstoke train station (where we managed to wake Fran up) and left Fran and Stephen to catch a bus)
and finally home.
The journey from Mannheim only took 11hr 35mins, and doesn't my right foot know it. My left foot is feeling perfectly relaxed thou.
The other 5 (Charlie, Claire, Carla, Tom and Jon) all had a nice quiet relaxing train, bus and flight home - but the truck still beat them (we did have a 2 hour head start thou).
But this does all mean that we are now all home (well, Carla and Fran may have slightly longer joruneys to get to Gurnsey and Scotland). The main part of this explorer belt is now finished, but, for the friends and relatives there will be the days of non stop listening as loads of exciting adventures will be pouring out.
Of course, there is now the paperwork to complete, and all of the team members will need to be busy preparing for their forth coming presentations.
I hope the blog has been useful. Sorry about the spelling mistakes and typo's (it was a small keypad on the phone - that's my excuse and I will stick to it).
Hopefully the team members will add some comments over the next few days to the blog, when they get a chance to stop talking and to read the blog. (I had better remove those bits that we didn't want them to read now.......)
Jools
Well, after a 553 mile drive today, the Jools truck made it back to Andover,
via Nigels to "threw him out the door" as Fran put it,
to Sevenoaks to meet a random stanger called Colin to give him Carla's rucksack and two tents (apparently they were his),
to Godalming to leave loads of kit in the door way of a house reportedly lived in on occasions by Charlie and Claire (and to pick up a lovelly goody back with scrummy bits in, thank you everybody)
to Basingstoke train station (where we managed to wake Fran up) and left Fran and Stephen to catch a bus)
and finally home.
The journey from Mannheim only took 11hr 35mins, and doesn't my right foot know it. My left foot is feeling perfectly relaxed thou.
The other 5 (Charlie, Claire, Carla, Tom and Jon) all had a nice quiet relaxing train, bus and flight home - but the truck still beat them (we did have a 2 hour head start thou).
But this does all mean that we are now all home (well, Carla and Fran may have slightly longer joruneys to get to Gurnsey and Scotland). The main part of this explorer belt is now finished, but, for the friends and relatives there will be the days of non stop listening as loads of exciting adventures will be pouring out.
Of course, there is now the paperwork to complete, and all of the team members will need to be busy preparing for their forth coming presentations.
I hope the blog has been useful. Sorry about the spelling mistakes and typo's (it was a small keypad on the phone - that's my excuse and I will stick to it).
Hopefully the team members will add some comments over the next few days to the blog, when they get a chance to stop talking and to read the blog. (I had better remove those bits that we didn't want them to read now.......)
Jools
Friday, 2 April 2010
XB Team A finished
Team A finished today, after staying out an extra night. They went
Rieneck Castle, which is a scout campsite. There was a big camp taking
place, which they joined in with, and were up until 2am partying,
before sleeping in one of the towers of the castle.
Jos picked them up from a train station part way back to Mannheim at
just before 12pm.
The two teams have spent lunch time telling each other of there
adventures, and now we are getting ready to go to a district BBQ this
afternoon. Tonight the teams will have there formal debriefs, and then
at 7.30am the truck will depart for the 600 mike drive back to the UK.
Jools & Jo
XB Day 10
Today is Day 10, which means it is the last day of the XB.
Team B have returned to Mannheim, where we collected them from the
cental train station at 3.20pm. They are now relaxing in the Youth
House, sorting through kit and money and telling us loads of stories.
Team A have decided to stay out for an additional night, as they had a
very special place that they wanted to visit -more about that tomorrow.
J&J
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