Classics Trip to Greece 2006

JPF, AHW and thirteen Carthusians from the fourth-form up to the specialists flew to Greece on the first day of the Easter holidays for a tour around the most significant and splendid Classical and Bronze Age sites.  After an action-packed week including racing at Olympia, art appreciation in Athens, and torchlight exploration of the water cistern dug deep under the citadel walls at Mycenae, we ended with a well-deserved morning on the beach.


Enjoying the warm spring weather at Delphi.


Who needs a classroom when you have a view like this?  Quick lessons on the myths and realities of the sites took place wherever we could sit undisturbed, even in this gymnasium bath.


An awe-inspiring finale to a day in the Argive plain, as pupils recited passages from Homer and Theocritus in the theatre of Epidaurus.