Tours coming up in 2013
Transylvanian Book Festival (5th - 9th September)
Join us for the first ever book festival in this region of Romania, which has inspired so much fine writing. This tour takes the armchair away from the traveller and invites readers and travellers to hear authors talk about their books in the places they actually write about. Speakers include Artemis Cooper, William Blacker, Jessica Douglas-Home, Michael Jacobs and Roy Foster on Bram Stoker. Other talks will focus on gypsies, wolves, wild flowers, life in the Saxon villages, County Banffy's epic 'They Were Counted' and the late Paddy Leigh Fermor.
Accommodation will be in three villages in the heart of Saxon Transylvania: Copsa Mare, Richis and Biertan. All have remarkable fortified churches and picturesque village houses. www.transylvanianbookfestival.co.uk
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Pardubicka Steeplechase (11th - 14th October)
Share a private box with the pundits to watch this great classic steeplechase. These few days will appeal to those who love both history and horses. Visits to the National Stud and Racing museum will accompany many private visits to some of the great country houses in this area of Eastern Bohemia, now returned to and restored by their families. This year John Pinfold, co-author of The Velka Pardubicka and the Grand National, will accompany us.
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Baroque Opera and Princely Patronage in Cesky Krumlov
(19th - 22th September)
This tour has been fully booked by the Friends of Castle Sychrov, a UK charity, who will then be going on to North Bohemia to visit Castle Sychrov which they help to support.
