Author: Brian Smedley

Early in 2013 Bridgwater’s twin town of Uherske Hradiste gained European funding to help it’s workforce investigate Local Government practices in their EU Partner towns. From Mayen in Germany they chose to study the […]

Our second major EU funded project of the year saw 13 Family Centre and related workers from our Czech  twin town Uherske Hradiste and it’s environs spend 2 weeks in Bridgwater to study social […]

It’s the 4th time we’ve taken people on a jolly canal trip . Same canal, mainly different people. For Katka and Zdenek from Prague this was their first time.  There was a bit of […]

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 […]

Twenty years ago this year we started the Bridgwater Czech Slovak link with an official twinning between Bridgwater and Uherske Hradiste. Ten years ago we  celebrated a decade of links and now it’s twenty. […]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is one of our  less popular travel locations. Not just because half the holiday is spent driving past the signpost , but because there’s so many other things to do in Wales that […]

If the Ceske Budejovice School for Civil Engineers had asked us to organise a programme in Somerset we could have shown them the collapsed wall at West Quay in Bridgwater and explained exactly why […]

Sarvar is the Hungarian  twin town of Uherske Hradiste which is the Czech twin town of Bridgwater. Which has an annual Fair second only in bigness to the very very big Nottingham Goose Fair. […]

No-one quite knows why Bridgwater is twinned with the elegant Mediteranean yachting resort of La Ciotat-but thanks to whoever did that 55 years ago. Last year we kick started the link with a joint […]

Not the three least well known of the seven dwarfs, but a mildly convoluted way of linking together the themes of our final project of 2012.  For the third year running now, our partners […]