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better than real shirehorses.

i remember dead birds and them being the most depressing places ever!

near Gloucester. Although we didn't go anywhere near the nucular bit, obviously, we still had to go through a radiation detector after the tour. One girl set it off - not sure how - and looked like she didn't know whether to cry or shit herself. Great days.

erm a squash tour to Paderborn, Germany and a 4 week world challenge to Vietnam.

All my repressed school memories are flooding back. I like this thread.

to Belgium in 6th Form. Really good trip, plus you can't beat drinking on the beach every night and watching one of your mates run down a pier in just his wellies and boxer shorts, after losing a bet that he could flip 65 beer mats. Great times.

we once went on a field trip to Tesco.

best was the French and Belgian battlefields, although i could've done the Russia thing but it was £1000 for us. A GRAND! I stayed at home.

trip to France in Year 6 in which one friend spent the entire week vomiting over everything (he had travel sickness and was allergic to all the food, it seemed.) He even chucked up all over my top trumps, the bastard.

James Richards had his hat eaten by an elephant and we all got a row for throwing pennies at the alligators.

Best in secondary school: Australia & New Zealand.

- a roman villa somewhere
- a fun science park somewhere
- the natural history, science & british museums seemingly loads of times. One of my best days ever was at the natural history museum where my group managed to lose our chaparone so went spent the whole day on our own making a nuisance of ourselves and doing what we wanted.
- went to the theatre a few times.
- stays at butlins and camping in the new forest.
- chessington world of adventures and thorpe park too

You loser. Also, Hayley Wyndow: LOL.

I went to Butlins, but I never went on any of the foreign trips at secondary school, so I had put up with everyone banging on about how amazing Belgium was when they got back.

We went to the Forest of Dean at primary school, that was pretty good. Went canoeing, and to Symonds Yat to watch peregrine falcons.

we went to Devon for a week, we had to make our own bobble hats.

I recommend the River Dart country park, and Cheddar Gorge. They seemed fun when I was 10.

At secondary school apart from British Museum and Imperial War Museum, we went to Chessington. I also went on the WW1 Battlefields trip and I also went to Berlin with the A Level students when I was still in year 11. I was designed to make the GCSE students who they loved do History (they loved me, I'm a full on History superstar). Our teacher was half Jewish, and mentally unstable at the best of times, but after a visit to Sachsenhausen he full on lost it. Wasn't helped by two of the places being filled by these dumb ass girls who while sweet didn't know when not to say something

(In the coach before getting off to go into a concentration camp)

"Do we need to bring any money?"

"I DON'T THINK THERE'S GOING TO BE A FUCKING GIFT SHOP!"

There was at it goes.

And not really a field trip, but in my thrid year I had to go to Dublin for a week and a half to do research for my dissertation. It was horrible, I was all alone, even one day went all the way to Cork just to have some family to talk to face to face, and people didn't want to to talk about the Civil War, not least of all to someone with an English accent :( On the plus side, it snowed.

we stayed in the Hotel Moscow in St Petersberg, and some place built for the Moscow Olympics. Both looked like porn film sets.

Hi there, my son is going on that school trip in a couple of months and asyet the school have been less than forthcoming withinfo as to what he needs to wear - from your description I think waterproofs and some sort of snow clothing ? but am at a loss - any tips?
cheers
Andy

Most of my school trips were either to St Fagans, which is a museum town in cardiff, or to the National Museum in Cardiff.

We had a good Geography field trip up to North Wales once, it was ace fun except for the day we had to go to Wrexham to ask people for their travel routines. We just sat in burger king and invented our answers.

Plus of course there was the usual trips to Llangranog, which most welsh speaking kids would have gone to. It's like a summer camp i guess, only you go during term time, and it's run by the Urdd, which is a welsh language youth association thing. They have a dry ski slope and horses and quad bikes and mountain-bikes (with no working brakes, as i found out whilst going down a little hill and falling over). It's also haunted by THE BLACK NUN apparently.

I never once went to Big Pit on a school trip. This annoyes me.

went to the isle of Wight, that was great. We played in a paddling pool type thing that had a mini version of the isle in! It was so much fun(but freezing). Also we went to black gang chine and the waterslides were so cool(at the time they seemed cool anyhow). It was my birthday whilst we were there so I got to pick the film that played, I chose 'the Dark Crystal'. :)

I loved that place. Still do.

Classic exchange to Wiesbaden as well, in which our German teacher got us lost in Mainz, and then revealed to us all that he'd once been arrested in Mainz for getting drunk, goosestepping through the town centre pulling a Basil Fawlty style Hitler salute and moustache combo, whilst yelling "One World Cup and Two World Wars! Doo Dah! Doo Dah!"

He then said: don't do that in Germany, kids, because you'll get thrown into a cell to cool off for a night....

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Kayaking, build-a-raft team building sorta things. I've been on a few of these in my time. It was pretty fun the first time round.

In high school we went to Paris and Futuroscope for a bit. Paris was ace, Futuroscope was alight from what I remember.

Probably loads of others I've forgotten about.

i have one every wednesday next term. i don't know whether to be excited or not.

Great times. It's like Willy Wonka brought to life.