After an hour
on the local train - very clean and efficient - we arrived at the halt before
Wiltz Station, Paradiso, which left us about 1 Km to hike with our kit, to the
camp site.
After an hour
on the local train - very clean and efficient - we arrived at the halt before
Wiltz Station, Paradiso, which left us about 1 Km to hike with our kit, to the
camp site.
It may only have been 1 Km , but in full uniform in the heat of midday...
The facilities
at Wiltz are what one might say... basic, however even although the shower was
a rose on a cold (and I mean cold!) water feed, it was very welcoming as soon
as the tents had been erected and uniforms stowed away.
The pitch at Wiltz was virtually adjacent to the pitch we had occupied in 1998 - see Euro tour '98 and came with the same problems of very shallow top soil over a bed of rock. Thankfully the hike tent pegs were a bit easier to put in compared with the Patrol Tents of the previous camp at Wiltz.
Once
we were settled in we hiked back to Paradiso, to the Scout Centre and picked up
the large pioneering poles which were to feature in our "Swedish Dining
Shelter." Perhaps not to be the size of the 1998 effort, but one which
would accompanied the 16 of us and incorporate the tallest flag pole on the
camp site!
...and as before it had to be climbed.
We had purchased new hike kit for this expedition (and for future use) in the hope the benefits of lightweight camping would become apparent to the older Scouts / younger Ventures who were on this expedition. Three person hike tents, Dual Fuel Stoves, hiking dixies etc. and axes, ropes and food had to be distributed amongst the group and working on this basis the daily cash allowance for food was also given out in groups of three. It did not take long before some realised they could accomplish more by working together and sharing resources and with some thought and enterprising shopping, good food could be found at all meal times, on the camp.
Ah. The significance of the background music on the first page...
Well we were camping next to a group of
German Cubs and I only wish it could have been filmed. Youngsters running
around having fun, cutting their morning loaf with a hand axe then smashing
bottles with a felling axe. I can only surmise P.O.R. was never translated into
German.
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