A Capital Visit

A group of Year 12 students have signed off the year with an exciting, fun-filled journey to London, spending 3 days in the nation’s capital, experiencing all its sights and sounds in what has become an annual Year 12 excursion. Staying in the Docklands area of the city, in hotel rooms with amazing views of the O2 Arena and the River Thames, the visit’s highlights included trips on the London Eye opposite the Houses of Parliament, and the London Cable Car from the Royal Docks to Greenwich. Other key moments involved a guided tour through the city’s dark past in London Dungeon, an afternoon in the Tower of London, and a speedboat thrill ride down the River Thames, passing beneath Tower Bridge and hitting warp speed at Canary Wharf. The residential trip ended with a visit to the West End to see the hit musical ‘Six’, which can only be described as the Six Wives of Henry VIII meet the Spice Girls. An afternoon in St Albans on the way home brought our capital city break to an end. A three day fun fest which lived up to Samuel Johnson’s famous observation, ‘When you are tired of London, you are tired of life’.