Or you'd have to stop halfway, which rather spoilt it.

As you climb the 173 steps (there's no lift), stop halfway up for a 20-minute demo of the camera obscura.

There was no motorway in those days, so we'd stop halfway and have sandwiches and warm lemonade by the roadside.

We stop halfway for a drink under the shade of a temple's banyan tree.

In these, musicians 'performed' only to stop halfway through as audiences gazed aghast with wonder as the music played on.