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To some, the Italian city of Trieste is best known for being where James Joyce wrote most of Ulysees, which he signs off with ‘Trieste-Zurich-Paris.’ Slovenia’s national rail provider has re-opened a train line variation of Joyce’s famous dateline, with a new-old Trieste-Rijeka route that takes two hours to pass through 8 cities in 3 countries. Joyce’s sojourn in Trieste came during the final years of the Habsburg Empire. Fittingly, the revived ink to Rijeka on Croatia’s Adriatic Sea coast passes through Slovenia and was laid in the late 19th century when the region, Trieste included, was part…

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