We’ve arrived!
25 Brits arrive safely at Hotel Katerina. En route to the hotel we learnt the following (fascinating) stats about Moscow: There are 5 million cars in Moscow 7 million permanent residents 40 museums...
Day three Munich Strathallan School
An early start today we left the hostel for a two hour coach trip to Nuremberg. Some of us enjoyed the opportunity to sleep after ice skating last night left us quite sore and tired! We arrived at...
Day four strathallan school-time to leave :(
The last day of German chocolate spread this morning and strange bread! We walked into marienplatz for some free time and we went up the observation tower of St. Peter’s kirche to have an...
Last views of Munich
Back to the hostel to get the coach to the airport. Last view of the Allianze Arena, the Olympic park and Munich-the nazi heartland. We’ve had a great time and learnt a lot. A great trip to...
Day Two In Munich
Our first full day in Munich involved our second early start for breakfast at and 8, Bush somehow managed to shuffle, blind with tiredness, to the cereal and back all by himself. He didn’t...
Choir of the Year: Saturday 8th February 2014
My colleague Sean and I turn up at Dr Challoner’s Grammar School, interview questions fully prepared, film and sound equipment in tow. My goodness, there are so many people who have turned out to...
Strathallan School’s History Trip to Munich is about to begin
Waking up six o’clock has never been so exciting! Many of us were up even before 6 am as it was nearly impossible to contain our excitement. After a sleepy coach trip, all 35 of us plus Mrs...
Day One In Munich!
After a surprisingly fast plane journey, we arrived in Munich after only two boarding passes, one wallet and one passport had gone missing. We took the coach to our hostel and raced to the room (to...
Choir of the Year: Thursday 9th January 2014
Time to get the Rayburn Tours team on board! Today we gathered everyone together to launch our partnership with Choir of the Year. My mission – to make sure everyone is as excited about the...
Choir of the Year: Tuesday 7th January 2014
Today we had a meeting with Helen from Kallaway, the organisers of Choir of the Year. Really exciting for all of us to meet face to face to discuss the dates, venues, format of the competition and so...
Introducing our Choir of the Year blog
Let me introduce myself: Nicky Astle Job Title: Marketing Manager, Rayburn Tours Singing experience: Virtually none – only to my children and much to my astonishment, a solo performance at the...
Last Day
A big thank-you to Stenn and his wife at the Hotel Hella in Mossfell. They have worked really hard to look after us and make our stay comfortable. We all really appreciated the flasks of hot...