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AHHH!!! Expedition is soon, busy prepping our kit list, making sure we don’t miss a thing!! 

Important tips: 

- Make sure you walk around with your walking boots and walking socks on at least a week before your expedition to get used to them, preventing any blisters on your expedition

- If you have a brick phone take that to your expedition, it’s small and convenient and you don’t have to worry about it getting lost or broken and the battery is sure to last you the whole weekend (unless you have to take pictures for a blog like me I’d advice leaving your smartphone at home) 

- Bring lots of food!!! You’re going to be walking for roughly around 6 hours each day, you need to keep your body fuelled. Remember happy body means happy well-being. Do not under any circumstances bring tinned food, it’s inconvenient, heavy and takes way too much space in your bag 

- Ensure that you split the things out equally, you don’t want to give someone too much, remember you’re in this together. So if someone is carrying a big part of the tent don’t give them the trangia, fuel bottle, first aid kit and most of the food!

- If you get lost, don’t split up trying to find the place where you started, go together and if you are really lost use your phone to contact the emergency number your DofE supervisor gave to you. 

- Respect the country code. Imagine walking in to your house only to find that it’s been vandalised, trash everywhere, graffiti all over the walls. Graffiti is a beautiful form of art but there are some places where it shouldn’t be like on fences on private property. Leaving litter around is harmful for the animal residents in the place you’re going and do not aggravate the animals and even if they are cute do not run after them to stroke them, they will get scared and may harm you as an act of self defence! 

- Finally remember to have fun!! Don’t consider Duke of Edinburgh as a chore to just get an extra thing to put on your CV, consider it as a learning opportunity to expand your horizons. 

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Silver for Beth and Patrycja