Participants will stay at organic guest houses and eat organic produce, boosting local organic enterprises. There's no age limit but participants must raise 2,500, half of which is for the Soil Association, half for the trip's expenses. I wanted to get fit. All I wanted to do when I got back was to get on my bike and ride as fast as possible back to those mountains in Spain. Field Studies Council offers a vast number of courses, some to very exotic locations.
Customer satisfaction is high.
In fact because they use local resources, it even feels as if you are doing some good. Back in the UK, there are numerous courses in study centres like Flatford Mill. For unadulterated nature, you could do worse than head for Iceland. So few people live in this extraordinary island that last year the number of tourists exceeded the population. Fortunately there's plenty of wilderness to go around, and in some respects tourism has been positive for the country.