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Explorer Scouts and Leaders from Units in Midlothian District and Meadows Unit Blackford,Edinburgh of South East Scotland Scout Region are heading on an adventure of a lifetime to Gibraltar between 5th July 2009 and 17th July 2009.
Travel
Getting to Gibraltar is not as straight forward as some other places on the continent. Direct flights go from Gatwick and Manchester early in the mornings and are impossible to get to from Scotland on the same day.
We intend to travel on the last train in the evening from Edinburgh Waverley to Manchester Airport, arriving there just after midnight. It does mean that we will be sat at the airport for four hours prior to check-in but a small price to pay that ultimately avoids paying for overnight accommodation and over stretching the budget of everyone going.
We’ve got nearly two weeks to get over it before we come back. On departing Manchester Airport we arrive Gibraltar three hours later, to what is expected to be 30 degrees plus. This means that we don’t have to take sleeping bags as it will be too hot, we don’t have to take tents as there is no grass and we don’t have to take cooking utensils or linen because its all there at the hostel. All we have to take is lots of sun screen and energy.
