It was billed as the trip of a lifetime. An Olympics-style meeting of 43,000 scouts from around the world, gathering in Seoul, South Korea, for a wild week of campfire songs, orienteering and patch trading. For the Naldrett children, Toby, 17, and Willow, 15, the 25th World Scout Jamboree was their first time abroad without their parents. “They had been looking forward to it for two years,” says their father, Peter.
They put on bake sales in their hometown of Sheffield to raise money for the trip — which cost about $4,300 a person. On July 29 Peter and his wife waved their children off and began looking forward to their first child-free holiday in a decade—a quiet week in Finland.
