As you can tell from my username, I'm not an American and seem to be the only Brit around these parts!

I'm interested to know if any other non Americans stop by these forums and what international Scouting experience people here have.

For my part, I have camped with Scouts from Greece and Sweden at International Friendship Camps held at my local campsite every four years (next one in 2012) and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Souts from all over the world come to the camp and I have met American, Canadian, Belgian, French, Russian and Nigerian Scouts to name just a few.

At last year's camp, Scouts from my Group joined a camp from our District which hosted a group of Norwegian Scouts. They told me they had a fantastic time!

And 'lurking' around here, I know a lot more about the BSA than I did this time last year.

So what are your international Scouting experiences?

That's interesting. I'm kind of suprised that you don't get more traffic from around the world, especially from what Churchill called 'the English Speaking Peoples'.

I wonder if the figures from the UK are artificially raised by me?

Of course the whole reason for PTC is to help and support the adult Leaders and helpers of the BSA, but as I have said on many occasions, listening to your shows and reading the blogs associated with PTC is a facinating experience for me and had greatly expanded my knowledge of Scouting in the USA and given me some good ideas for my Group.

I also hope that some of the stuff I've said and written has also reciprocated and people here know more about Scouting in the UK.

We run quite different programmes (and spell things differently!), but the overall principles, ideals and outcomes are the same and long may we all continue!