{"id":7464,"date":"2024-07-22T17:38:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T17:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/?page_id=7464"},"modified":"2024-08-18T18:42:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T18:42:20","slug":"paris-2024-travel-home-day-8","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/2024-2\/paris-2024\/paris-2024-travel-home-day-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris 2024 Travel Home Day 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- tailor:tailor_section:669e9dc8eefa8 -->\n<div class=\"tailor-element tailor-section tailor-669e9dc8eefa8\">\n<div class=\"tailor-section__content\">\n<!-- tailor:tailor_content:669e9dc8eefa9 -->\n<div class=\"tailor-element tailor-content tailor-669e9dc8eefa9\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Paris 2024<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Day 8 &#8211; Travelling home (sad face)&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/tailor:tailor_content:669e9dc8eefa9 --><!-- tailor:tailor_content:669e9dc8eefb0 -->\n<div class=\"tailor-element tailor-content tailor-669e9dc8eefb0\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7549\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/2024-2\/paris-2024\/paris-2024-travel-home-day-8\/20240807_062146\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240807_062146-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1152\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-A127F&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1723011707&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.1&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20240807_062146\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240807_062146-300x135.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240807_062146-1024x461.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7549 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240807_062146-1024x461.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240807_062146-1024x461.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240807_062146-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240807_062146-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240807_062146-1536x691.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240807_062146-2048x922.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%; background-color: #ebfa7d;\"><strong>An extract from a diary, written by one of the Scouts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Today, we went home! We woke up at 6:00am to finalize packing and then we set off!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After a 2 hour coach journey, we reached the ferry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We sat in the quiet lounge for a bit and ate the Haribo my mum had packed for the journey home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I felt a bit seasick as the waves were quite rough, but it was OK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Finally we reached home!<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>A bed for the night can be anywhere! It&#8217;s certainly a few grades up from the original plan! An early start required all the canvas to come down. Even leaders&#8217; tents (I know!)<\/p>\n<p>Some of the scouts even enjoyed their wooden gazebo experience.<\/p>\n<p>We left Jambville around 8am for the epically long journey home.<\/p>\n<p>A lot less photos today. everyone was asleep, or watching really awful films.<\/p>\n<p>The Scouts were quizzed on the journey home , in amongst their napping, for their favourite and most memorable bits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">The hockey was so good!<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">The atmosphere was so good in the hockey and Team GB scoring with 7 minutes to go against France!<\/li>\n<li>I loved the hockey event even though it was boiling hot.<\/li>\n<li>Watching the hockey was my first time and it was <em>really<\/em> good fun!<\/li>\n<li>Team GB beating France &#8211; that was amazing!<\/li>\n<li>I loved the athletic and water polo, there was so much to see<\/li>\n<li>the whole week was amazing, from start to finish<\/li>\n<li>I loved it when we slept under that weird wooden thingy on the last night<\/li>\n<li>Kayak cross &#8211; the women&#8217;s races were so much more intense as they were more bunched up,<\/li>\n<li>I liked the canoe cross and being on TV to the world!<\/li>\n<li>Getting on TV at the canoe slalom!<\/li>\n<li>The athletics was the best &#8211; being able to watch with my friends<\/li>\n<li>The British runner that got second and everyone cheered around us<\/li>\n<li>The Irish fans around us at the hockey. Even when they were losing the kept singing. An that bloke&#8217;s airhorn!<\/li>\n<li>Water polo, when the lights went out and everyone was asked to put phone lights on. It was an awesome display! Water polo was my best day &#8211; I now love water polo!<\/li>\n<li>Going swimming in the local pool with the weird French rules. I had mini speedos, but it didn&#8217;t bother me!<\/li>\n<li>I did a front flip into the pool and the French bloke shouted at me: &#8216;Non! Non! non flippy, flippy!&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Getting a wave from Sky Brown!<\/li>\n<li>Seeing a gold medal Team GB athlete.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And just to highlight that these memories will last a lifetime, my favourite sums up the whole experience:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Just going to the Olympics&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/tailor:tailor_content:669e9dc8eefb0 -->\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/tailor:tailor_section:669e9dc8eefa8 -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris 2024 Day 8 &#8211; Travelling home (sad face)&#8230; An extract from a diary, written by one of the Scouts: Today, we went home! We woke up at 6:00am to finalize packing and then we set off!! After a 2 hour coach journey, we reached the ferry. We sat in the quiet lounge for a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/2024-2\/paris-2024\/paris-2024-travel-home-day-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paris 2024 Travel Home Day 8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7185,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7464","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7464"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7571,"href":"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7464\/revisions\/7571"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/62ndbristol.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}