Summer Expedition: Difference between revisions

The first summer expedition was to Dublin.  The travellers were [[Jen Ayerst]], [[Rowan de Pomerai]], [[Giles Burdett]], [[Drew Perry]], [[Kate Rushworth]], [[Cally Nixon]], [[Dave Baker]], [[Jonathan Bufton]] and [[Anthony Laverty]].  YSTV members spent five nights in a hostel in the city centre, visiting a variety of places including the Guinness factory, a zoo (which many felt was a bit crap due to it having very few animals), and an old prison.  They also saw a memorial to Oscar Wilde known as "the fag on the crag", another memorial to Dermot Morgan and an amazing pub that served pints of Smirnoff Ice (which seemed a better idea before drinking than after). Jonathan commented on a stature commemorating the potato famine, "Where are all the potatoes?!". Ahem.

The programme was edited by [[Jen Ayerst]] and featured a [[Steve Walker]] computer generated title sequence.  The distinctive closing sequence where the travellers all ran over a Teletubbies-style hill doesn't record what happened off-camera on the other side, with a number of people skidding all over the place on the unexpectedly muddy grass...

The second summer expedition was organised rather later than the first.  With a short deadline, a few UK options were floated, before we decided on [[Rowan de Pomerai]]'s suggestion of going to... Yorkshire!  Rowan was joined by [[Jonathan Bufton]], [[Kate Rushworth]], [[Kev Larkin]], [[Sarah Leese]], [[Tom Hughes]], [[Dave Baker]] and on the trip to The Deep [[Richard Ash]], [[Rob Humphrey]] and [[Cally Nixon]].  The locality was actually a very good idea as we saved money by being able to sleep in our own beds every night, and saw bits of the region we'd never got around to - such as a day in Scarborough, visits to the ''York Dungeon'', Bradford's ''National Museum of Photography Film and Television'', ''The Deep'' in Hull, York Minster, a boat trip down the Ouse and the York Brewery. The trip to Bradford began in confusion about whether we could actually travel due to the 7/7 terrorist attacks on the London transport system.