Month: August 2022

The Bridgwater based Community Choir VOICE OF THE PEOPLE have just returned from a successful 4 day tour of the Czech Republic which included visits to Prague and our twin town Uherske Hradiste. In […]

Uherske Hradiste teacher Draha Cizkova had told her students to prepare for rain, wind and cold weather for the Korycany schools first visit to Bridgwater – unfortunately their trip coincided with the hottest May […]

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 […]

Leading her 15th annual trip to Bridgwater, Ceske Budejovice teacher Eva Kordova, had terrific weather for the students who travelled with her from the Cesko Anglicky Gymnazium. The tour took them the length and […]

Shropshire Youth Worker Jo Cox – who came with us on the very first Bridgwater-Czech twinning trip back in 1992, recently achieved Leonardo Funding from the European union to take a group of Shropshire […]

Zdena Biggsova and a group of 30 teachers from the Kladno area have just completed a week long tour around Ireland and taken in a bit of England and Wales on the way. Flying to […]

As a result of a succesful bid to the EU Leonardo fund , a group of family centre workers from the Uherske Hradiste region of the Czech Republic have just been able to complete […]

For the past 2 years Bridgwater travellers have met representatives from the Italian town of Priverno at the Uherske Hradiste wine festival. Priverno -a medeaval mountain town situated just south of Rome and midway […]

This has not been the best summer here in the UK. However, for climate change enthusiasts it’s been perfect, clearly demonstrating that even world famous weatherman Michael Fish would be absolutely no use at […]

The Arabska Gymnasium in Prague 6 has been an annual visitor to Bridgwater since the link first started back in 1996 when Dr Jan Soucek met Mr Andrew Pole in the Bridgwater Embassy in […]