Misbourne World Challenge

Follow the school's World Challenge trip to Madagascar 2024.

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Team Misbourne World Challenge, Madagascar 2024 - you smashed it. Enjoy the rest of your summer x #worldchallenge #schooltrip #madagascar

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It has been a pleasure (most of the time). I'm giving rice & coke a rest & will avoid carrying a bag for a few days... oh, & drink from the tap! Tx for looking out for me & dragging me about. I kept a vague track of our journey & we covered min. 14650 miles #notincludingwalks

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It has been a great trip, nay ADVENTURE-
You rose to the Challenges ( both as a team & individually) & SMASHED it. Don't forget to finish your journals & once the dust has settled & washing machine is rested, look back at your photos & share them.

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Last couple. I told Lynsey we'd made it back, not expecting a reply; but no- she was straight back to me- she wanted to say a huge well done to you all again & to make us a little bit jealous, on WIFI (how?) showed us her current view.. back on the West Coast. #intrepidexplorer

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Thanks to all those who came to collect, for being on time and for making some welcome signs too 😥 or were they just in case they didn't recognise us!! #goingtheextramile

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Having put his foot down the pilot got us to LGW earlier than rescheduled. Thanks @airmauritius a great flight. Time for a final debrief & wee, deep breath before heading out to meet families. Lizzie had a v uncooperative trolley 🤣

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It was great to cross the Channel back over UK land. There were some white fluffy things in the air- we're not familiar with those #lastseenatthetopofAnjarreserve

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Some didn't waste anytime getting to sleep- we were shocked to see only 6 films in their selection as we took off, but someone must have then paid the Netflix subscription & many more options appeared. We crossed the equator just after 2am #welcomebacktothenorthernhemisphere

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A short hop over to Mauritius meant we lost an hour and it got darker earlier.

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So..we're back. Last few tweets for the time being documenting our return journey. Tanna International was surprisingly well organised, although we couldn't spend our last few Ariary. They went to a women & children's charity. We said goodbye to the Red Island- what a landscape

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URGENT MESSAGE- Not so good news- We're delayed in Mauritius. However, the team have been invited to dinner by Air Mauritius at Burger King #everycloud At the moment we are not due @LGW until 0855.Parents please allow an hour for us to come through. Will confirm as late as poss

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First stagevif our return journey went smoothly. We've arrived in Mauritius which looked spectacular even in the dark. BUT...

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Our last journey with Rhodin to the airport. The roads weren't any quieter; we won't be complaining of traffic in the UK for a while nor potholes!! Destination Mauritius 🇲🇬 🛫 🇲🇺

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And so our long journey home begins. Rhodin our illustrious, dedicated driver, is seeking shade under Ben's armpit. He was 3 hours early to collect us😅 his passing shot was " see you next week?"🤣🤣 (if only!!) we managed to dodge the porters & checkin was fairly painless.

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A minor setback this morning in that Bank of A was happy to exchange our £ on arrival, not so keen to give it back so we're expecting to be"stung" at the airport. Lunch at midi, départ for airport 1300 hrs

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It's been a morning of packing, unpacking & repacking & trying to work out how to get all our stuff back into the bags in which it came out. Photo is aerial shot of Chez Jeanne with various pads highlighted. I think we'd recommend it if anyone was out this way #toomuchbonbon

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We've had our last supper, topped off with an impromptu review of the trip (they were reminded that there's still 1 day to go) Clearly plenty of challenges have been taken on & many happy memories have been created. There's plenty to talk about. We'll try to update on progress.

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After a couple of hours of guided tour, we were more than happy to find out that lunch was included (Ben; aka chancellor of the exchequer; was even happier to only pay for drinks & a tip). Then onto the craft fair & serious bartering !

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Then we spent some time with the classic ring tailed lemurs. They didn't mind posing for photos either #imkingjuliannoimkingjulian

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Back at the lemur park we watched this mother jumping about the trees ( licking the salt off the wood) them realised she was carrying her 3 week old baby (see pic) #moreoohsandaahs