After years of planning and a 2 year delay the 4th Southgate Scouts were finally able to go on their trip to Austria this July. With Covid having impacted the trip the past two years, flight cancellations threatened to derail the trip this year as well. Fortunately the Scout leaders are a stubborn lot and after manoeuvring Dover and 1300 km of driving the Scouts finally made it to their destination, Zellhof international scout centre.
At Zellhof, the Scouts quickly took to making new friends and enjoying the lake on 30o C + days. Each day the Scouts took part in a different activity, which included a visit to Salzburg, Hallstatt and it’s Salt mines, Cycling, Canoeing, Hiking and organising a Volleyball tournament for Zellhof’s Austrian, German and Irish scouts.
A silver-lining to the cancelled flights was that the Scouts also got to visit many new places and countries on the journey there and back with Durlach and Munich in Germany being particularly memorable. France, Belgium and Luxembourg were but bit players on our trip and hopefully we get see a bit more of them on future Scout camps!.
