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Subject: We don't need no education...


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Bob Bayman (wonderful times)
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Date Posted: 22:17:18 07/20/14 Sun
 I think it must have been the cusp of 79/80.
The ultimate double irony of a bunch of lucky school kids on a educational cruise in The Meddi seriously belting out Pink Floyd's chart topping single as the clock chimed in the New Year.

I remember the route clearly.... my first ever plane flight: from East Midlands on a Dan Dare Comet to Athens. Piraeus, Rhodes, Israel for Xmas Day in the Holy Land, Corfu, Dubrovnik, Messina in Sicilly and then Valletta in Malta to finish back on Dan Dare home.

I remember the lectures, the dressing up for some fancy dress event, the distinctive smell of the canteen, the bus alongside the river Jordan and poggo-ing to Pink Floyd. Oh, and being sad a couple of years later to hear that the boat was requisition and had to go off to war in the Falklands. I remember thinking that more lucky kids would be missing out on what was my first 'trip of a lifetime' - one that whetted my appetite for many more to come.
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