School trip to Slovenia: the Isonzo Front in Kobarid, the Idrija mine and Ljubljana (9 days)

Day 1: Journey to Bavaria

• Departure from your school at the agreed time.
• Journey to Bavaria: our driver drives for 3 hours at most, then takes a 30-minute break, by day and by night.
• Free lunch or packed lunch.
• Overnight stop in Bavaria (Germany), dinner and night.

Day 2: To the Soča Valley

• Breakfast at the accommodation.
• Journey to the Soča Valley through Austria and Italy, with a 30-minute break after 3 hours of driving at most.
• Free lunch or packed lunch.
• Check-in in the Kobarid area for four nights and a first walk along the Soča.
• Dinner and night at the accommodation.

Day 3: Kobarid and the Isonzo Front

• Breakfast at the accommodation.
• Guided tour of the Kobarid Museum, devoted to the Isonzo Front (1915–1917) and the Battle of Caporetto (on request).
• Free lunch or packed lunch.
• Guided walk on the Kobarid Historical Trail: the Italian Charnel House of St Anthony, the Kozjak waterfall and Napoleon’s Bridge (on request).
• Dinner and night at the accommodation.

Day 4: Around Bovec

• Breakfast at the accommodation.
• Visit of the Ravelnik open-air museum near Bovec: First World War trenches, shelters and positions (on request).
• Free lunch or packed lunch.
• Introduction to rafting on the Soča with qualified instructors, for pupils old enough to take part (on request).
• Dinner and night at the accommodation.

Day 5: A day on foot along the Soča

• Breakfast at the accommodation.
• A day on foot from the accommodation, without the coach (rest day for the driver).
• Hike with a nature guide along the Soča, a river with emerald-coloured water (on request).
• History workshop with the teachers: soldiers’ letters and testimonies from the Isonzo Front.
• Dinner and night at the accommodation.

Day 6: Franja Hospital and the Idrija mine

• Breakfast at the accommodation.
• Visit of the Franja Partisan Hospital near Cerkno, hidden in a gorge during the Second World War (on request).
• Free lunch or packed lunch.
• Visit of Anthony’s Shaft, the entrance to the old Idrija mercury mine, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (on request).
• Drive to Ljubljana and check-in for two nights.
• Dinner and night at the accommodation.

Day 7: Ljubljana, capital of an independent country

• Breakfast at the accommodation.
• Guided tour of the old town: Prešeren Square, the Triple Bridge and Ljubljana Castle (on request).
• Free lunch or packed lunch.
• Visit of the National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia in Tivoli Park, from the 20th century to independence in 1991 (on request).
• Walk along part of the Path of Remembrance and Comradeship, which follows the line of the barbed wire that surrounded the occupied city during the Second World War.
• Dinner and night at the accommodation.

Day 8: Drive to Bavaria

• Breakfast at the accommodation.
• Return journey to Bavaria, with a 30-minute break after 3 hours of driving at most.
• Free lunch or packed lunch.
• Overnight stop in Bavaria (Germany), dinner and night.

Day 9: Return to Belgium

• Breakfast at the accommodation.
• Journey to Belgium, with a 30-minute break after 3 hours of driving at most.
• Free lunch or packed lunch.
• Arrival back at school in the evening.