Shane Thomas

We all love a good holiday, but a good holiday can mean very different things to different people. A dream vacation of trekking up a mountain for one could be the idea of a terrifying nightmare for another. Lounging beside a beach for ten days might be paradise for you, but could mean boredom for somebody else. Unfortunately with money being scarce these days, many people have had to sacrifice their ideal holidays for the sake of economic sense, if they have even been able to take a break at all that is.

Why travel long distance journeys squashed in small seats, having to climb over everyone to access the onboard bathroom, when you can enlist for a personal aircraft to take you wherever you need to go? Long gone are the journeys where you are sat too close to your neighbour, elbowing the person next to you when trying to eat your meal, struggling to stretch your legs and get comfortable to sleep.

Melbourne is synonymous with urban chic and is known as a bustling business centre. However, that is just one aspect of Melbourne, which has many diverse attractions on offer, ensuring that visitors are never bored. A visit to Melbourne guarantees a feast for all the senses, be it visiting historic sites, enjoying a night out clubbing, feeding hunger pangs or some retail therapy, just to mention a few options available in Melbourne.

Buzzing along a townscape consisting of Victorian-era buildings and Manhattan-style skyscrapers one might actually forget that Melbourne also boasts botanical gardens, an internationally acclaimed zoo and a state-of-the-art aquarium, all hosting a range of native Australian wildlife, bird and aquatic life. Explore Melbourne the natural way and experience the diversity of Australia's fauna, flora and landscape at some of Melbourne's biggest attractions.

School trips to Paris in particular can be great as France is one of the closest countries to the UK so it can be very convenient and cheap to get to compared to elsewhere in Europe. You do not even need to take a flight as you can hire a coach and get a ferry or go by Eurostar. School trips to foreign countries can be very educational and provide pupils with a chance to experience other cultures for themselves.

It helps to engage pupils and make them enjoy learning more about their chosen topic, so it is proven to boost grades, memory and exam performance, especially if it is needed as a case study within an exam or piece of coursework. If they can live and be there at an educational site then they can process and take in the information much more easily. School tours to Italy are quite popular as the language is quite popular amongst schools in the UK after French, German and Spanish.