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Trip to Hadrian's Wall - 1990

When in the 3rd year at school, we went on a classics trip to Hadrian's wall. We stayed in a youth hostel in Northumberland which was horrible. The food drew comparison with people's bodily excretions. We spent the second night sleeping on the coach. In fact it was a pretty lame trip. I can imagine Jeremy Clarkson's voice saying "yes yes, it's a wall. Made of brick, long, goes from a to b. Oh look, more wall. Yes, it's still a wall. Very clever. Can we go to the pub now?"

Oh yes, and we got up at 6am and trekked through fog to see it. Fun fun. Here are the photos.

View fullsize Here it is... wall.	View fullsize All there was to see apart from wall was the back end of some sheep who were rockclimbing.
View fullsize Ah, now here's an interesting thing. This bit where it sticks out, that's a joint, to strengthen the wall as it changes direction slightly, or something. It's meant to look like that.	View fullsize So there we were, walking alongside the wall, when what happened but we encountered some ruins! Fancy!
View fullsize Some ruins we came across, serendipitously. As they say in Time Team, it's a series of low walls.	View fullsize See the wall in the background?
View fullsize More ruins.	View fullsize More wall.

The end. I think you had as much fun as we did.

If you're really interested in Classics trips, the trips to Greece and Italy were somewhat more interesting.

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