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The School Tour

Wichita Lineman · 2015-07-08 14:00:34

Looks like it's been a while since there was a school tour thread. I'm from Wicklow and at an age when travelling to Dublin was a lot harder when I was a young lad than it is these days. I remember we were taken on a school tour to the cinema to see 'Superman' the first Christopher Reeve one but we got stuck in really…

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#32 24-07-2015 9:34am
whiskeyman

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Went to Clonmacnoise when in primary school and part of the trip was to be a cruise on a boat down part of the Shannon.
Drove around looking for the river boat, but couldn't find it.
Finally found what we though was our boat... we all bailed on board, then noticed the fecking thing starting to sink!! It was a boat docked up for repairs, and we all had to run and jump off it as the water started to gush on! The work lads ran out from a shed nearby and were going mental! told us our boat was up the road
Fun times...

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#33 24-07-2015 2:50pm
Wichita Lineman

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The year after I left Primary School I was asked to go back and help the teachers on the school tour and it was to Clonmacnoise. Riveting. Actually riveting would have been more fun!

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