Author: Brian Smedley

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 […]

Bridgwater’s VOICE OF THE PEOPLE choir have just returned from a succesful 4 days tour of the Lazio region of Italy which included the town of Priverno – twinned with Uherske Hradiste , and […]

In 1957 Bridgwater set up it’s first ever twinning. In the style of the day this was with a French town in order to strengthen the ‘Entente Cordiale’. Whilst most Somerset towns picked up […]