UPCOMING TOURS

Ypres

CAPORETTO, VENICE and the ITALIAN BATTLEFIELDS of the Great War

£1000 per person sharing; £150 single supplement, includes travel, accommodation, lunches and dinners, taxis, museum entrance; drinks extra. Please note that the tour involves some walking and is not suitable for vertigo sufferers.

The VENICE part of this cultural/military tour is intended for both those familiar and unfamiliar with the city and its treasures.We will be staying at a private Palazetto on a side canal near the Gesuiti church, famous for its unsurpassed trompe l'oeil marble interior. It is a quiet, non-touristy area, convenient for the Fondamente Nuove and the water-buses to the islands of Murano, Burano and Torcello, where the first Venetians settled. We will visit the great Paladian churches, private palazzi, the major art galleries and less well known gems. The CAPORETTO part of the tour (last 3 days) will take us (in a comfortable min-bus) to the Italian battlefields of the Great War, their trenches still preserved, high in the mountains, in some of the most spectacular scenery in Europe. The bloody aftermath of Caporetto was vividly described by Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms. The tour includes Cortina and Monte Piana, with its trench systems and fortifications, and an unforgettable panorama of the Dolomites. We will be guided by a local expert on this most dramatic – and neglected - of campaigns.

Somme, Loos, Vimy

Crete

Gettysburg