On the last Wednesday of term, a sunny but cold December afternoon, we went to the Ashmolean Museum to see the ‘Last Supper in Pompeii’ exhibition with Mrs Brown, Mrs Hess and Mr Hanson: it was a fantastic trip! The exhibition was divided up into different rooms: it started with a statue of the god Dionysus, a god of feasting and wine, and then took us through different areas of a Roman house. The final room was all about Roman Britain. Among the objects collected and restored were: paintings of food and the Roman diet, statues and sculptures, and even bottles of Garum (Roman fish sauce), which had very interesting and detailed patterns on them. We filled in a worksheet as we walked around and had to find various objects in the display cases. In one room, I saw carbonised bread, which, amazingly, survived from someone’s meal in Pompeii. I also saw oxidised coins, which had turned greeny-blue, and a complete set of cutlery. There was also an opportunity to enter a competition to design a Roman meal; I entered a dish of stuffed dormice – a Roman favourite! We had a lot of fun on the trip overall and were lucky to see so many fascinating items.