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The A Level geography students from University College School embarked on a 5 day, 4 night trip to the spectacular island of Sicily. A popular choice for the school as this would be their third trip there with Rayburn Tours and for a group that consisted of human geography students and physical geography students it’s [...]
April 2013 saw the Geographical Association Annual Conference come to our home city of Derby and, for a fourth consecutive year, Rayburn Tours were proud to receive an award from the Association for their on tour Study Handbooks; this year it was for our brand new Sicily Study Handbook. The Sicily Study Handbook comprises a [...]
Iceland and New Zealand were considered the most welcoming countries towards foreign tourists in a ranking of 140 countries as published in the World Economic Forum’s Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2013. In the report the country’s travel industry was ranked in a number of different categories, including the attitude of the population towards foreign [...]
As a member of the Rayburn Ski team and a lover all things snow sport related… The Austrian hills are alive With the sound of snow fall With flakes that have fall’n For a thousand years The hills fill my heart With the sound of chairlifts My heart wants to sing Every piste that it [...]
Joel Smith, Rayburn Tours photographer, recently accompanied Glenlola Collegiate School on their tour to Berlin & Kraków, here is just a small sample of their tour photos.
I met the girls and teachers from Badminton School late afternoon on Thursday ready to check in at the airport for their Language and History tour to Berlin. I was already very excited to be going with them as having previously lived in Berlin it is one of my favourite places and it was clear [...]
It’s no mean feat taking 38 students out of the classroom to experience the triumphs and challenges of language learning, but this didn’t put Amanda Harper of Bennerley Business College off. She was so sold on the benefits of language learning, in fact, that she was determined to give all her students an equal opportunity [...]
Following their successful history trip to Berlin, the Bishops’ High School share their adventures in the Berlin photo gallery.
After Bennerley Business College successfully raised funds to travel, we follow a day-by-day account of their language learning in Germany. I was first introduced to Bennerley Business College on Thursday, the day before our departure on their Language Tour to the Rhineland. What struck me first when meeting the Party Leader, Amanda Harper, was her [...]
The land of fairy-tale castles, one of the tallest cathedrals in the world, leisurely river-cruise ships and the birthplace of one of the greatest composers…it has to be the Rhineland. Since our summer visit to see the Wessex Youth Orchestra they have not let the chalk dust settle… Conductor and Director of the Wessex Young [...]
