This was our Camp Rhineland-2024

• Sat 22. June 2024  arrival Day                   

• Sat 22. June 2024 until  6. July homestay in families:     

• Sat 06. July 2024 until  20. July  camp stay in Duisburg:   

• Sat 06. July Get-Together Youth hostel Duisburg Sportpark 

• Fri  19. July Farewell Dinner 

• Sat 20. July 2024  Date of return    

Our next camp will start on July 5th until August 1st 2026

Your host parents brought you to the camp location at the Youth-Hostel Duisburg Sportpark where we had a get together event.

On sunday we started with a big round of introduction for presentating yourself and get to know each other. This was accompanied and guided by a trainer and coach. During your camp stay you had the opportunity to give a presentation about your country and the special conditions of living. Please prepare a short Powerpoint presentation.

We had some different teaching and discussion rounds and gave you the opportunity to learn about your personality characteristics with a psychological tool for personality analysis (Structogram).

In the Sportpark you found many training possibilities.

During several excursions we visited the main cities Düsseldorf, Cologne and Bonn. Another part was waterskiing, canooing and swimming.

These actions were sponsored, organized and accompanied by several Lions Clubs who organised  and arranged the events.

This day you had an excursion into the "Ruhr district" an industrial Megalopolis of steel industry and coal mining.

Accompanied by our acting Governor Dr. Sylvia Löhr  you isited the famous coal mining museum Zeche Zollverein in Essen. 

After a short trip to the city of Bochum where we had dinner we visited the Musical Starlight Express - the battle of an old steam train against some newer kinds of locomotives - a nice dreaming

Canooing on water of lower temparature ( 6 degree) makes fun. But what about swimming. It is not recommended exept for our finnish guests - they said that they don't mind to swim in icy waters. 

Chocolate Museum

Cathedral of Cologne

Shopping (at 4711)

Visit of a "Kölsch" brewery (Gaffel at the Dome)

After visiting the Museum Dr Weidenfeld and his Lionsfriends invited us to a lunch into his gorgeous farm house.

His wife Svenja Weidenfeld together with some ladies of the Lions Club Euskirchen Veybach prepared an exquisit menu for all different eating habits.

The Lions of LC Bonn Tomburg and LC Siebengebirge organized a tour onto the Drachenfels and visit to the castle "Marienburg"

Starting with heavy raining in the morning - our day at Langenfeld Waterski Line was a full success. The water was well tempered 24 C and most of the goup reached at least one round standing on Ski,

This event was organized and sponsored by LC Langenfeld - Dr. Peter Kriependorf among some others of my old friends in LC Langenfeld

On the last day we visited the Peace-Village in Oberhausen  a Rehablitation and surgical Facility for Children suffering from injuries from war.