Photos: at some point soon there will be a photo DVD made available containing all the photos, at a higher quality than those on here.

Updated 9th August, see map below.

Mini update, 7th of August.
  Looking back on this blog there are loads of various mistakes, thanks to a combination of my bad typing and predictive text set on the e-mail function on my phone ( it got rain and pain confused amongst other things,


Map of the campsite area, below is a map of the area where we camped, look to the centre of the map, where its marked in red 'group leir'


To view a searchable online map click here use the hand logo and the +/- zoom options to navigate.

Photos

updated 10th August for now,
Pictures from Day 3, Prekostolen:

more information about Preikestolen on wikkipedia (click)

Day 10, 3rd August 2009 the journey home

Day 10 and a little bit of Day 9 as well...

On sunday Evening Tor inger invited the leaders out to a meal at a restaurant in Stavanger, leaving the older Explorees and some of the older Scouts in charge back at the Scout hut, equiped with a phone to call us if there were any problems.
When we returned to madla Scout hut there was a presentaition eving where the neckercheifs were poresented ot those Scouts who hadnt camped with madla before, then it was time to do a bit of cleaning up, before bed time.

Video walkthrough of madla Scout HQ where we spent the last few days.


On Monday morning we awoke a little bit earlier in order to make sure that everything would be packed up, we had the usual 'continental style' breakfast, then the big clean up began, The Scout hut was soon cleared, all the bags were packed and taken outside the front door then it was time to leave




There was enough time for a quick group phot before all the bags were loaded into cars and onto a trailer then it was off to the airport at Stavanger to begin our journey to Birmingham airport, via Schippol, and eventually home







We were soon at Sola Airport, Stavanger unloading outside, and getting ready to board the plane to Amsterdam




Boarding the aircraft

We were soon on your way to Amsterdam, where after a hike through the airport from one gate to another we finaly made it to the departure gate
Clearing customs / passport control in Holland
A short wait at Gate D44
On the plane from Holland ( Schippol) to the UK ( Birmingham)


Once back in the UK there was time for another group photo, then we went our separate ways back to our Scout huts at melbourne and Eccleshall.

Group photo
Going our separate ways, outside Birmingham airport
Back at Melbourne Scout hut.

All back home

Hopefully now everyone should be back at home, theres still plenty of stuff to go up on here, theres a huge amount of photos to work through i might create a 'fast' slideshow where the pictures change about three times a second ( pause the video to view ) and upload it to youtube, when available it will be posted on here.
Theres still an end of day report to go up ( end of day 10 ) ive still got lots of stuff to unpack, and there may be some more photos and video to go up as well that i couldnt get uploaded whilst in norway.
Keep checking back here for updates as theres still more to come.

Back

Back at melbourne scout hut

The last leg

We are now all on the
Minibuses heading back to our scout huts at melbourne and eccleshall almost home

Back in the uk

We have now landed at birmingham and we are now at the baggage claim.

On the plane to birmingham

Scouts on a plane

Holland schippol airport

Waiting at schippol

Transit

We are now on the plane waiting to take off from schippol, next stop birmingham.

Transit

Just cleared security at schippol some scouts had to have their bag searched my we are waiting to get on the plane

Holland

We are now in holland waiting to get on the aircraft the scouts seen chilled out and are mostly playing cards

Transit

Just landed in holland at schippol waiting to leave the aircraft

Boarded

Just boarded the plane from stavanger to schippol

Airport

Were at the airport trying to get the scouts and dave through the automatic computerised check in system

On the way to the airport

Were now on the way to stavanger airport everything is packed

Last breakfast at Madla Scout HQ

right now the scouts are tidying up, we've had our last breakfast at the Scout hut most things are packed, and the smell of damp dirty clothing is finaly beggining to leave the building ( helped with a bit of air freshener )
this is that last update from the computer at madla Scout hut, and its odd norwegian keyboard ( ø Ø æ Æ å Å and other keys in the wrong place ) there may be a few more updates from the airport, access permitting, and a few more bits and bobs added from the UK in the days after the camp.Latest: we have found some lost property, most of it smells non too good.

this blog is now open for comments, click on the comments tab below to make a comment about åny part of the camp / trip( you may need to create a google username as used for youtube etc, (comments may be removed if inappropiate etc etc ) but for now, and from madla Scout hut thats that.

Packing up and getting ready to go

Were about to have breakfast, most things are packed and in a few hours we will be starting on our journeys home
taking the bags outside ready for loading.

Settling down for the night

We've got an earlyer than usual start tommorow, and the Scouts are just begining to settle down ( sort of )
next update due tommorow possibly a few photos, and that will be that from Norway.
When were back there may be a few more updates and a few more photos on here.
If all goes to plan there will be a photo DVD/slideshow published in the near future available to all simalar to this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmST5lt50qM thats curretnly on youtube.
Thats all for tonight more tommorow ( hopefuly )

almost over

Thats almost it for this trip, tomorrow we all head for home, weve all had a fantastic 8 days ( 9 tommorow) in Norway.
chineese take away for the last evening meal
presenting the neckers
presenting the neckers
Group photo

Sunday 2nd August

A quick update on todays activitys..

today we went on a boat trip to a nearby island which invloved a walk through the outter parts of stavanager to where the rover scouts keep their boats, the scouts had the opportunity to explore, it started out dry and warm, however during our stay on the island the clouds rolled in and it started to rain, after that it was a short walk to the madla swords, where we stopped for a short while, then a walk back to the Scout hut where some of the Scouts played cards and relaxed in the lower floor.
We are due to deaprt for home tommorow, and hopfeuly by now the Scouts should have most of thier stuff packed for the journey home via schippol, you should be able to keep track of the incoming flight at the birmingham airport website flight number KL1429 coming in from amsterdam

Not many photos of upstairs yet, but there should be some more later, again there is another meeting room, as before it is equiped with a high definition video projector, as well as a balcony outside, and a wood burning stove against the wall, it also currently features from time to time a snøring dave.

Inside madla Scout hut middle floor

more photos..

Main room also equiped with a high definition video projector
coridoor at the back of the main room with a computer

Kitchen

Entrance coridor, with the norwegian Scout promise painted/ stencilled on the wall.

Inside Madla Scout hut, Stavanger

Heres a few pictures from inside madla Scout hut, our current location.

Lower floor:

The lower floor has a meeting room equipend with a full light and sound/disco set up
At the back of this room there is a bouldering wall, with crash mats ( that should be neatly stacked against the wall ) it is also equiped with a high definition video projector, mounted to the roof, agains the other wall is a framed take away menu for a local pizza shop





Coridoor leading outside to a door to the left and to the stairs up on the right, turn left and your at the back
The back of the scout hut features a climbing/abseiling wall that goes upwards above the roofline of the building
Their equipment store is larger than the scout hut in melbourne, and contains a huge amount of camping gear, a rigid inflatable 'speed' boat, wind sufing gear, sailing gear, skiiing gear and much more
to the side theres also a sheltered campfire circle area


Pioneering poles ready for use are stored to the side of the main building.