So for Carnival time this year we had a visit from the Uherske Hradiste Mayor and council plus a couple of Czech Police officers, a Czech teacher from the UH Gymnasium , a couple of itinerant Canadians and Luigi from Italy.
This is what we did
UH Civic group
Mr Stanislav Blaha – mayor of Uherske Hradiste
Mr Zdeněk Procházka – vice mayor of Uherske Hradiste
Mr Josef Botek – Chief Executive of Uherske Hradiste
Mr Rostislav Němec – new head of the mayor´s office department and translator
Czech Police group
Mr Vlastimil Pauřík – chief of municipal police
Mr Radek Pavelka – municipal police officer
Ms Adéla Tobolová – assistant for twin towns and translator
Czech teacher from UH gymnazium
Peter Horcicko –job shadowing AT Bridgwater College
Bridgwater Priverno link
Luigi Teodonio – Mayor of Privernos assistant
Bridgwater Canada link
Shawna Cooper-Music promoter
Liam Cooper- student
Sun 1 Nov
Petr Horcicko arrives at Bristol airport 1815 Collected by Brian
Accommodation 1 Castle street, Bridgwater
Mon 2 Nov
Petr does a weeks worth of job shadowing at Bridgwater college with STEPHEN BOND 0900-0100- job shadowing 0100 lunch at canteen
Tue 3 nov
0900-0100- job shadowing
1400-1800 Afternoon-day trip to Glastonbury ,Wells & Cheddar
Wed 4 nov
Petr has job shadowing
Afternoon to Bristol to collect Luigi Teodonia from Bristol coach station and Shawna & Liam from Bristol airport then off back to Bridgwater for an Indian meal with the local Internationalists
Thu 05 November 2015
Petr has some more job shadowing
Meanwhile the Czech dignatories arrive (Bristol airport 1815) and we take them to
MODEL FARM at Perry Green,
For the evening we have a meal for them at the Green Olive
Friday 06 November
Petr has a bit more job shadowing
Czech Police group (x3) are collected from Model Farm by Police car and taken to Police HQ (Portishead) for a full days programme including 0845 Comms 1000 leave HQ 1030 Almondsbury RPU & Dog Unit, ride along, demonstrations & armoury visit 1300 lunch 1345 protestor removal 1500 Black rock range and demonstration 1600 transport to Model Farm arr 1645 (for 1700 departure)
The Czech Civic Group has a visit to town centre and the Friday market and can seen the carnival preparations and then a 1200 reception at Sedgemoor District Council by civic leaders including a special guest appearnce of Ian Liddell-Grainger MP who has suddenly found himself the chairman of the Parliamentary czech/Slovak committee.
1415-1515 visit to the new Swimming pool 1610
1530-1630 visit to Cllr Dyers agro-tourism business
1630 return to accommodation 1700 depart for evening
1715-1845 Evening meal with Mayor of Bridgwater Tudor Restaurant
1915 *Annual fireworks display on Fairfield
2000 Bar 27 (Lounge bar with live music) to see ‘Snappa’ a local pop group who play a mixture of The Beatles, The Who, The Stones, Elvis, Johnny Cash, T. Rex, Buzzcocks, Hendrix, Undertones, U2, Blur, Oasis, Green Day, Kaiser Chiefs, Saturday 07 November
In town for free morning watching carnival preparations
Cornhill stage includes;- 1030 Harry Winchester (singer) 1125 Molly & The Kings (jazz) 1220 Jordan Hill (guitarist) 1310 Flossy & Boos (comedy songs)High street stage 1220 Flossy & Boos 1300 Bang on (junk percussion)High street 1100 majorettes 1130 Nat Howell (street entertainer) 1230 Matt Barnard (street entertainer) 1320 meridian drum corpsAngel place 100 ACTs choir followed by childrens entertainmentsTown centre; 1230 Swank (street theatre)NB entertainments cont all day
1200 fish and chips for everyone at west quay
Afternoon the civic group goes to visit Cheddar
1400 The Police group has a walk around the town then visits CCTV/SDC and then afterwards 1500 visit to Police station including the Carnival Briefing
1730 group meal at Squib West street
For the carnival everyone goes to watch it outside the Mansion House
1800 the Czech Police are collected from Squib by Andrew Pritchard + Dom Bryant to shadow during carnival parade working jointly with Bridgwater officers on Carnival parade-
Sun 08 November 2015
On the way to the airport the visiting Czechs, Italian and Canadians have a
short stop at the Cenotaph in Kings Square for remembrance day.
Liam Cooper from Guelph Ontario reads the poem ‘In Flanders Field’by John Mcrea