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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 [...]
What was very much an active, live geographical event is now almost, dare I say it, dormant… history! It is remarkable and somewhat disconcerting to think that it is now over 2 years since the magnificent glories of the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption in South Iceland. Memories of the sights, sounds, smells, emotions (mixed and very [...]
Amy Frost, Educational Tour Coordinator and fluent Italian speaker, accompanied the University College School’s A-level Geography students on their tour to Sicily. With an abundance of human and physical geographical features, Sicily is the perfect all-round destination and ideal for students to use as the basis of their A-level coursework. Here Amy gives us an [...]
Well, first there was Fimmvorðuháls (red, hot and glowing) closely followed by Eyjafjallajökull (the dirty, dusty one) in 2010; we all remember these events, everyone has a story to tell. Our groups in 2010 and 2011 have since been thrilled to have had sight of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, to learn of the events and stories [...]
