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What a trip! Our expedition started off peacefully. We arrived clean, nice smelling and generally excited about the trip ahead of us. It was just like
arriving for school except at school I’m not usually that excited. We strapped on our newly loaded rucksacks and headed off down the country road that
led to our fate. Little did we know, we would enter boys and girls and leave slightly smellier boys and girls.
The first day was a hard trek. We walked for what seemed like an eternity up never-ending hills. When you emerged at what you thought was the top of one
of these hills you would find that there was another 100m to go then another 100m then another…
We walked and walked and walked and walked to the vanishing lake which had decided to vanish before we got there. After a terrible lunch we put our heads
down and walked into the evening. There were several casualties on the barbed wire fences but we arrived later at watertop farm tired and hungry.
We ate, slept and played with animals late into the night and were rudely awoken the next morning by billions of midges.
We left camp a few hours later only to find that the farmhouse dog had followed us. We walked up mountains and forded streams. The views were spectacular,
utterly breathtaking. We savoured these while we could between hill and plateau our body’s burning all the while whether it be from 100’s of midge
bites, sunburn or the lactic acid building up in our legs.
We settled down that night and fell asleep quickly through sheer exhaustion and the comfort provided by the long grass we lay on.
The next day was cooler than the previous which felt excellent. We trudged for an hour across the cliffs until we reached the road that led to our bus.
Freedom! We had been liberated. I felt like Bear Grylls after he had been rescued from one of his highly dangerous adventures. The air conditioning in
the bus was the first technology we had felt in three days.
In conclusion we had an excellent trip full of great views and yes Mr Dickie memories were made.