OS FRENCH CONNECTION

Friday, 3rd June 1999

This has become an annual event at 1st Adderbury!   Starting from our home base a team of Scouts, with a driver, set of on a ferry trip to Calais.   Once in France they complete a set of great challenges! It was a long day, and as ever, excellent fun.

In addition to the list of challenges (below) the Scouts were given map of France and nothing else!

THE CHALLENGES:

Go to the place of the pure genius, nearly!

Send a card to the Cub Leader telling her that the wine is good – in French!

Enjoy a French ice cream in a market square.

Have your picture taken reading a French newspaper on the steps of a French church.

Visit the place in France where Charles de Gaulle was born.

Obtained details of a house for sale in France.

Collect a French company promotional pen or pencil.

(Supplied by Groupe Premier Farnell PLC)

You can see what happened on the 1998 French Connection here.