Sorry I've not had chance to update my blog whilst at the jamboree site, it's been a busy couple of weeks! We arrived in Yamaguchi on Tuesday 28th July, and after unloading over 1200 UKC Scouts & Guides in under 60 seconds we were on our way to site. The station was buzzing with members of lots of contingents arriving only minutes apart, IST & the local community there to welcome us. We quickly jumped on a coach with our kit to Kira Hama and the 23rd W...

It's been a busy few days, what with IST departing on Saturday & units arriving to start their mimasu Tokyo experience. After welcoming almost 400 scouts to Narita airport on Saturday afternoon along with their solidarity patrols from countries all around the world & getting them checked in it was time for activities to begin. On Sunday I was based at one of the earthquake centres with Paul where units learnt all about earthquakes in Japan & got to ...