Summer Expedition

The YSTV Summer Expedition was the brainchild of Jen Ayerst when she became Production Director in May 2004. The idea was to make a programme that showed freshers how much of a fun time we had socially as a station, whilst also giving us a holiday at the end of the academic year. A group of (mostly graduating) YSTV members had gone on a canal boat holiday in summer 2003, however this was not filmed and was not a YSTV event.

2004

The first summer expedition was to Dublin. YSTV members spent a weekUnverified or incomplete information in a hostel in the city centre, visiting a variety of places including the Guinness factory, a particularly crap zoo (with very few animals), and an old prison. They also saw a memorial to Oscal Wilde known as "the fag on the crag", another memorial to Dermot Morgan and an amazing pub that served pints of Smirnoff Ice.

2005

The second summer expedition was organised rather later than the first. With a short deadline, Rowan de Pomerai decided we'd all go...to Yorkshire! This was actually a very good idea as we'd save money by being able to sleep in our own beds every night, and see bits of the region we'd never got around to - such as a day in Scarborough, visits to the York Dungeon, Bradford's National Media Museum, The Deep in Hull, York Minster, a boat trip down the Ouse and the York Brewery.

2006

The most recent summer expedition was a canal boat holiday - a week's cruise on the Four Counties Ring.

The crew consisted of Richard Ash, Dave Baker, Rob Humphrey, Rick Selby and Matthew Tole who were experienced canal cruisers; and Sarah Cheyne, Rowan de Pomerai, Kev Larkin, Sarah Leese and Ian Martindale who were more fresh-faced.

Starting and ending at Norbury, the crew took the ring on clockwise.

Notable moments included:

• Pirates on the first day
• Washing and styling Rob's hair
• Writing messages on an unsuspecting (and asleep) Ian's back in lipstick
• Matthew finding the 50% Vodka a little strong and revealing his PIN for his switch card
• Running out of water on more than one occasion...
• Nuts magazine, and the walrus

A standalone programme wasn't made from this holiday - instead short segments were included in Limited Edition.