23 - 30 October 2011
Over half-term 42 boys and 4 staff travelled to Turkey to visit a vast array of Classical Sites over the period of a week.
We saw many famous highlights, such as the stunning hill-top theatre at Pergamum, the elaborate facade of the library of Celsus in Ephesus, not to mention the replica Wooden Horse of Troy. However, even more impressive were some new sights: the brilliantly preserved houses in Ephesus (worthy of Pompeii or Herculaneum), the awe-inspiring stadium up a nondescript dirt-track at Magnesia, still being excavated from the mud-slides which buried it for thousands of years, and - most stunning of all - the new museum at Aphrodisias, housing perhaps the best single collection of Roman imperial sculpture from the whole empire.
We rounded the trip off in Istanbul, with a cruise along the Bosphorus and the highly competitive trip quiz, which was won by a team ably led by Edward Firth.
