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Sicily – a geographer’s dream!

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 [...]

Award-winning study handbooks for the 4th consecutive year!

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, most friendly country for foreign tourists!

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 [...]

Mackie Academy Ski Photo Gallery

Apr 18, 2012 No Comments by Rayburn Tours

See all the photos from Mackie Academy’s Easter Ski Trip to Sauze d’Oulx in Italy.

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Skiing with The Schools at Somerhill

Mar 07, 2012 No Comments by Amber Collinge

Two weeks ago, I was sitting in the sunshine at a mountain restaurant in Italy, gazing at the wonderful panorama in a short-sleeved t-shirt, drink in hand and a plate of delicious pasta in front of me; this evening I am sat at home with the fire roaring and a blanket wrapped around me, the [...]

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Ski Safari

Sep 11, 2011 No Comments by Jamie Boyden

After a hugely successful year in the Rayburn Ski department we finally found the time to sit down and think about how we could continue this success and offer schools something new for the 2011/12 season. A ski safari was the answer, and no, we’re not talking about chasing snow leopards and arctic foxes around [...]