Dr Jan Soucek, from Pragues ‘Arabska Gymnazium’, has been bringing students to Bridgwater for 17 years and so with retirement iminent , this trip could well be his last.
The students had an action packed week which saw them explore Somerset and tour the West Country from their Home-Hosted base in Bridgwater.
Around Somerset they walked Cheddar Gorge and Glastonbury Tor, visited Wells and
it;s cathedral , Burnham and its beach and did a spot of orienteering on the Quantock Hills.
They toured around 3 other Western
counties, taking in Lyme Regis in Dorset, Dartmoor in Devon and Lands End , Tintagel and St.Michaels Mount in Cornwall.
They also took time to go to Taunton and play a football match against the to
p notch Staplegrove team (who inevitably thrashed them).
As usual the highligh
t of their tour was the Multicultural mecca that is Bridgwater, where they saw live rock music at the Labour club, visited the Blake Museum- where they re-enacted the battle of Sedgemoor, and the Bridgwater Arts Centre – where top local politicians staged a mock election hustings (by adopting different Party colours and arguing who NOT to vote for!).