Trieste & Slovenia: Echoes of Rome, Venice and Joyce Trip dates: Thursday 28 August – Saturday 6 September 2008 Trip Price: £ 1,750 per person sharing in a double/twin room £ 260 single supplement, deposit £ 200 per person Activity level: 7 walking days, 1 – 3 hours daily on good paths, occasionally stony or muddy. Download a PDF (330 kB) with trip details Home page How to book Phone/Fax : +44-(0)1722-716 167

Wedged between the Italian border and the Julian Alps, Slovenia is one of Europe's smallest and least known countries. Our journey reveals dramatic karst scenery, picturesque traditional farming, Baroque and Gothic architectural treasures and undisturbed forests. We begin our exploration in Aquileia, in Italy, a great Roman city, whose Patriarch was a major influence on Slovenia for centuries. Piran, on Slovenia's Adriatic coast, was Venetian for over 500 years and it remains a gem of Venetian Gothic architecture. Journey's end is Trieste, Italy's most enigmatic city, the grand seaport of the Austro-Hungarian empire and place of exile for James Joyce for 13 years.