This year it seems that we will be a lot to bring us to the appointment of Loreto with our fellow Scouts. It is the eightieth of the FB and is therefore a very important date, even if our part is much more important to review other friends.
At the start, however, does not it hard to count.
Fabio had not realized that we had to stay away from Friday to Sunday and on Friday he is normal work day that keeps him from being present.
Toni has forgotten the date and took engagement with the Civil Defence.
Ottavio only start in the afternoon to wait Alessandra exit from work.
We stayed in two, Richard and Giancarlo, and we start punctually at eight o'clock in the morning.
at noon we are in place and we go by the sisters when we see that no one else is here yet.
Never mind, because the reception was scheduled from 13 onwards, and then we go to lunch at the nearby Owl Restaurant where you eat and drink well.
At 13.30 we return from our sisters and there are four that are preparing the necessary.
Department Geppino greetings with Joy and Mario Librera that we now know well. We record and then, while they go to lunch, take a ride to the town.
A seller who has a small booth on the square, asking us if we are alpine or sharpshooters. Threw out the "foreigners" and she understands and nods all riflemen met.
We go to the balcony from which you can see the sea and there are asking us if we are Australians.
Loreto obviously is not a usual destination of the scouts, but find that it is not. Scouts come to Loreto, and how, but few use the hat rather than the Basque or nothing at all.
the guests' belongings back to our healthy in the meantime you are put on the table, joined also by Nazzareno Chievo, the National Treasurer.
Take time returning to the streets to window shop. They are full of souvenir trinkets to Loreto, almost all the same from store to shop.
other friends arrived in dribs and drabs, from different backgrounds.
Delays blow up the whole program of the day, because there are still many missing and especially Antonio Bosco, the first speaker.
To avoid wasting time Mario invites us to get where we pray in the Chapel of the Holy Rosario. Are we or are not in Loreto?
Meanwhile, the storm breaks out and falls even a little snow. The few that are left after the ceremony in the street covered all wet.
It is raining when we receive a phone call from Ottavio who is coming and wants to know exactly where to exit the highway, especially since it is in the middle of the storm and low visibility. At the end comes and we run to help you with your luggage. We discover with surprise that he came alone without Alex. The incident does not tell us everything, and we avoid an investigation.
runs quiet Dinner: soup, sliced \u200b\u200bbeef with peppers, green beans, fresh vegetables and fruits. Immediately after a visit to the bar of the Owl Restaurant and finally all of them meet the sisters in the room next to the entrance. The meeting is also open to others and then participate Ottavio well and Giancarlo
is a very lively meeting, in which he discusses in particular the management of the secretariat, which is accused of being always late in delivering the requirements, from simple responses to the distinctive labels for the census .
As for the latter seems there are some groups that have done so in October and would therefore justify the delay of the Secretariat
clarified what was unclear, said by the Secretary that the National 'commitment is always made in the proper ways, it gives the floodgates bought a bottle of brandy by Antony.
Cyrano glasses and liquor, the spirits find rest and one-thirty at night
it finally goes to sleep.
is day 4, wake up at seven: the seven and a half should be on time for breakfast, comprising barley coffee, jam and butter. For the coffee is not true that an early bet on the outside, the "bar angle.
Geppino convene and Ottavio Riccardo and is delivered from the card of Mario FB as well as the official form for requesting the FB that will be recognized by any holder of a FB time in Lourdes. It's an award that we did not expect, but in fact to make the ambulance to Lourdes we were more than once, albeit in a somewhat distant past.
When we receive the FB means that we have been accepted as novices and then we will have a visit of Lourdes at least three more times to get the monogram NDL and become owners.
Shortly after we go back into the chapel for morning prayer.
Soon after we moved into the back room meetings where Geppino have read the reports, Chief of the Clan FB Italians, that of Antonio and that of Richard.
occasion Antonio projecting a movie on to Lourdes to see all this wonderful spiritual reality, which is followed by an overview of many of our photographs have recently traveled to Lourdes.
Closes Gianni Salzer, Grand Chief, who is pulling the strings of all that was said until then, then all at lunch.
Meanwhile, the "small" on the occasion to study, despite place at all unusual.
Good lunch: noodles with sauce, schnitzel with mashed, boiled fennel, fresh vegetables, fruit.
Coffee back to "the angle bar."
remains free time to walk around the town, which was filled with crowds, and to do some shopping.
At 15 he resumed his activity and Gennaro Limavady, the author, also reads the report.
Following a brief discussion on "Community."
end of the day you go with the flags of the FB and the ASC to visit the Basilica S. House of Nazareth. Here we focus a little concentration, then falls by the nuns.
At dinner after the penne with tomato sauce a cold dish consisting of sliced \u200b\u200bmeats and cheese, fresh vegetables, the inevitable fruit.
Since we were good at the restaurant of the owl back to us all sit down around a table, spin and sing a short, jarring very successfully, until it reaches the return time.
On day 5 in the morning again wake up at seven, breakfast at half past seven, the coffee "bar angle.
After the little free time that we have granted you go in the underground Basilica S. Mass.
Following the renewal of the promise of a turn, to Frank and the other is delivered FB novice, while Gennaro is delivered monogram NDL to have passed the probationary period.
We were asked to draw a few songs for our scout songs to be sung during the service, but liked them or not, or did not know them (in no particular knew "the man in man") and then accompanied the S. Mass with songs that have nothing to do with the scouting tradition.
At the end of the first flag is given to the Italians because FB is stored in a special room of memories donated to Our Lady of Loreto. Then we will know almost immediately that was hanging on the wall.
In the square there is a whole group of the ESF, the Pescara 1, who came on pilgrimage to his 25th year. We give news to our heads, but it's meeting time for the closing speech of Geppino and Gianni, then return quickly to the streets to make contact with boys ESF:
There are cubs, ladybugs, scout, rover: All words, for a total of 180 that come with around 400 parents and carers.
learn that yes, they were the ESF, but that for some time for disagreements have become autonomous groups, then taking contact with Agesci to enter its ranks.
Andrea, one of the leaders, ASCI has a flashy badge on his chest and asked me to greet Stefano Vitali ESF in Bergamo.
and other leaders are approaching one of them on the badge Mandorletto ASCI, which is used to put on the lapel of his jacket.
Distant memories remain in my heart, but never buried.
latest purchase that we are the chalice and ciborium to celebrate when Don Sergio S. Mass for our group. an indication of the Group 1 Iseo.
Finished shopping, because time is running out, all at lunch.
is Sunday and I co-usual lunch is richer: noodles, roast chicken with patati-tion, the cake.
sang a can with the expensive-to Marcello, the sisters are there to listen-ing and then ask-no, being pre-sent also the Mother Superior, to sing some songs in our repertoire scout. Madonna attacks with the scouts, followed by Mother in Heaven, Lord of tents lined up and then the song of farewell.
The choir receives a sincere applause from the Mother Superior, and that comforts us.
A "bim bum crak" very incisive circle.
We greet each other, exchange the latest conversations and then go home.
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