I've been reading this thread "Question regarding school day out"

eamon

And it got me thinking.

What are you best memories of school trips? Where did you go?

I'll start. In primary school I went on a day trip to Dublin. This was a huge adventure for a small boy from rural Northern Ireland. A bus to Portadown then the train to Dublin. In Dublin we went to the Zoo and Kilmainham Gaol or was it vice versa? It was the early 1970's. A few years later another trip saw us all on a boat trip on Lough Erne stopping on various islands. I have a distinct memory of sitting on a grassy bank eating egg sandwiches and drinking coke. I was early summer and the weather was stunning.

From what I can recall all these trips involved saving for many months something like a shilling and later 10p a week. This was a huge amount out of a families weekly budget.

Happy days indeed!

Eamon:beer:

Hermia

We didn't really have school days out. I think we went to a museum once, but that was it. It was a pretty poor school in a poor area so that's probably why we didn't bother with things like that.

mazza111

Remember freezing my a$$ off on a boat on loch lomond when I was about 6. Teacher gave 3 of us girls her coat to shelter under. She must have been freezing herself, god bless her

jackomdj

We did a school trip in the last year at senior school to Rome & Sorrento. Fantasric trip, but they let us out on our own & we went & bought some baccardi & all got rather drunk! The next evening we had to go with a teacher to see some old ruins, not exciting ones but ones where all that was left was a few bricks!

Also our school was in "We are the Champions" & we had a great couple of nights in hostels when we went to film this.

I used to go away quite often with the sports teams & have some brilliant memories.

busiscoming2

We went to Yorkshire in the last year of junior school, we stayed in two different youth hostels, I can remember the midnight feasts, one boy breaking his leg, walking round The Shambles' in York and there being an archaeological dig going on and seeing exposed skeletons in graves!

Brilliant week!

Artytarty

I remember going to Newcastle co. Down on a bus from Belfast, that was good fun, Mum still has the souvenier! Also a trip to the Ulster Folk and Transport museum and one to Castleward to see around the house.
My best memories are of girl guide trips though...aaah.....we went to Waless, Scotland, I.O.M ,Sheffield and Castlewellan and Delamont Park.

LJM

i went to places such as singleton, theme parks and had a week at butlins when at college all were good but not amazing never had trips abroad

flippin36

busiscoming2 wrote: »

We went to Yorkshire in the last year of junior school, we stayed in two different youth hostels, I can remember the midnight feasts, one boy breaking his leg, walking round The Shambles' in York and there being an archaeological dig going on and seeing exposed skeletons in graves!

Brilliant week!

My first school trip was to York to see the National Railway museum and then to the Shambles after. Very exciting, I still get the excited feeling whenever I visit York. It was like going back in time.

bramble1

A week in the Ardeche doing all sorts of activities included a 2 day desecent down the Ardeche river, me and my best friend fell out so many times, but it was still a great holiday.

bap98189

At primary, we had an annual class trip. Usually it was just before the summer holidays and they took us to a museum or something similar. In P7 there was a 4-day trip to London which was amazing as it was pretty much the first time most of us had ever stayed in a hotel, let alone been away from our parents.

We used to get a lot of local trips too, probably once or twice a term. I remember we did stuff like nature walks along the river, or a visit to some old buildings but those didn't involve a bus.

Katie-Kat-Kins

I remember the trip where the school left six of us behind and drove off in the coach with us running behind waving and shouting.......

......they didn't see us and with no such thing as mobile phones we were stuck at a closed tourist attraction until the coach got home and some parents started wondering where there kids were, then the head and deputy had to drive all the way back to collect us!

We were only 7 but the school receptionist was with us and bought us all ice creams while we waited!