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where did you go? what did you do? day trips, holidays, exchanges etc. I want your anecdotes.
The most boring place we went to was the National Waterways Museum in Gloucester. Fucking Navvies! The best bit was when Hayley Wyndow was scared of the boat we were on, so the guy let her help drive it, and she drove it into the side of the canal and a bit of the boat fell off.
The best trip I went on was to Russia on a college History thing. Three days in St Petersburg, three in Moscow, culture/vodka-arama! Plus I hurt my back and got to go to Russian hospital, which was actually quite fun.
My year 7 school trip was at Butlins in Minehead. ATP is going to be weird....
Alton fucking Towers
Every sodding year. Fucking place.
Although we went on a Geography field tip to North Wales in the sixth form. That was good. The best bit was when Alison Ford fell in the river. And then every time she tried to get out, we pushed her back in. The hairspray-laden whore.
Russia?? Jesus.
But when you say College what do you mean? Is that 6th Form or University?
At primary school it was of course mandatory to visit London's museums. Often.
We went to Bude in Cornwall, and to Mill on the Brue (sp?) farm one time. No idea where that is.
And up into the Dales for secondary school.
So not much travelling. :-(
6th form
it was a History and Art trip, there was about 30 of us. It was about £500 for the week, way cheaper than it would be if I tried to organise it for myself now.
we went to a roman villa in lullingstone
the actual villa was reasonably cool but the funniest part was when a horse bit my RE teachers boob-she went bright red!! it must have cained!!
best trip was to Italy when we went to Pompei and climbed Vesuvius and I stole volcano rock
germany was also tres fun too....
ah, school days :)
the shire horse place rocks!!
i highly recommend you still go!!
i have a tack-chav-tastic golden horse-shoe from that place!!
I saw the Shire Horses support Blur once at the Nynex
They were great.
they were great!
better than real shirehorses.
No wai
Real shirehorses are ace. Bass Museum of Brewing has shirehorses. We saw them a couple of times on school trips as well. Ace.
in primary school we went to dublin zoo
every year.
one year we went to wexford. and looked at a bronze age village (i think)
one year we went to the armagh planetarium
one year they let us go shopping. !!!!!!!
one year we went to glendalough to look at the round tower.
in secondary school we didn't really have school trips other than to museums in dublin.
we went on a choir trip once.
and a latin trip to Bath.
lame. LAME.
London Zoo
every year at primary school. Which was nice, but not EVERY BLOODY YEAR!
Beamish
Lightwater Valley
Various places on the Yorkshire Moors in the rain for geography
All were pretty rubbish.
Wales for a geography field trip
Tilbury power station
Bethnal Green toy museum
Chessington World of Adventures
St Omer (on a ferry which was fun)
Calais
At uni we went to Malta, which was one of the greatest weeks of my life.
i went to 2 power stations
i remember dead birds and them being the most depressing places ever!
Tilbury definitely is
Where better to spend a rainy day out than at a grimy coal-fired power station on the muddy banks of the Thames estuary?
Hell, perhaps.
I went to Oldbury nuclear power station
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.
We went to a
graveyard one year, in Godstone.
I've been skiing in Switzerland twice
erm a squash tour to Paderborn, Germany and a 4 week world challenge to Vietnam.
in primary 7
we spent a week in glasgow staying ina hotel doing various things like almost getting beaten up playing football, visiting various museums and galleries, getting excited on the underground.
we also spent a week at an outdoor centre in the highlands, doing outdoorsy things like a 10 mile trek through the hills as well as visiting whisky distilleries (at aged 10!!!), nature places and such like.
in secondary school it was a bit crap, went to various historical places (culloden - 5 miles down the road woobloodyhoo, and stirling/banockburn), the best one was probably when we went up into the cairngorms and had a huge snowball fight.
Oh, we went to York too
All my repressed school memories are flooding back. I like this thread.
BLUE JOHN MINES!!!!
battlefields trip
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.
the worst was a trip to Finchley Central tube. no, wait, i lie.
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.
i too have been to supermarkets on field trips
we took in tesco, sainsburys, iceland and..........wait for it...........KWIKSAVE!!!
*amazing*
the battlefields
trip was great, did you go to the creepy German graveyard that was full of the black gravestones laying down?
also
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.
I've been to tesco aswell
last year. It was in Broadstairs and it was a great trip, they gave us coke and donuts and it was great. Plus the supermarket was huge, biggest one i have ever seen. The whole side wall of the supermarket was filled with pringle tubes (about 25feet high) and thy were all salt and vinegar (blue) and they spel the word 'pringles' in ready salted tubes (red) and you had to go all the way to the other side of the store to see it...This was just a huge tesco, the back store rooms were surprisingly small.
The best one in primary school was Bristol Zoo
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.
You what?!
Australia and NZ on a school trip?!
Best we ever got was France for a few days.
It was a rugby tour
so it did have it's downside.
oh and a guided tour of the House of Commons
was a pretty swish day out. Afterwards we went to a Soho strip club as a birthday treat for someone and got chased out for refusing to pay £80 for a glass of Coke.
Actually no, we went to Stratford Upon Avon
in 6th form. Only for three days in which we all drank too much on the first night, slept through/during the matinee performance of Hamlet, saw one of the English teachers in his pants, set off the fire alarms by smoking out the windows and snuck boys into friends' rooms. Good times (two of the plays we saw were brilliant too).
we had some good ones
- 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
The Waterways Museum is ace
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.
THIS IS NOT A JOKE
Last year we went on an art trip to see the lion king and we were allowed to go around London for a couple of hours, anyway we were in leicester square (or near) and someone had been shot or stabbed or something...so much blood....the production was good though.
oooh and another time we went to see journeys end
and the theatre was right opposite the ivy (you know the really exclusive resteraunt and bar place where all the 'celebs' go...
Symonds Yat!
there's an amazing warning sign for not falling off cliffs there.
actually a good trip i have been on
was last year for history (as i am in school in Dover we had to walk) we went to Dover castle and then in all the secret tunnels from world war two that burrow around the inside of the cliffs, very fascinating....we saw rooms where operations such as operation dynamo were constructed etc. The tunnels were ace....They were going to use it as a nuclear thing in the 70's, but realised the chalk would absorb all the stuff and they'd eventually die!!
In primary school in year 6
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 did get the sleeper train!
we stayed in the Hotel Moscow in St Petersberg, and some place built for the Moscow Olympics. Both looked like porn film sets.
what to wear??
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
A new contender for POTY in injury time
Great bump...
:D
I want to go to Russia :-(
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.
I went to Llangranog
the best thing was getting a Mr Urdd badge.
Whoopi Goldberg isn't dead yet.
We
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'. :)
Best was a two month exchange to Frankfurt
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....
In primary school I went here:
http://www.lakelandoutdoorcentres.com/about/lowbankground.htm
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.
Are university trips as fun as school trips?
i have one every wednesday next term. i don't know whether to be excited or not.
Did you go to the chocolate factory in Koln?
Great times. It's like Willy Wonka brought to life.
Hahah I like the way you used the girl's name as if we all know her.
I hope she's googled herself