We visit Croatia a lot. As do the Czechs who think it’s Czechia-on-Sea. Sometimes we go together. But Croatia is a long country. One massive coastline topped by rugged mountains and peppered with delightful […]
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Poland
Since they joined the EU the Poles have been the majority minority in Britain. So it’s not hard to meet a Pole here at home. However, one of our popular destinations is Poland itself […]
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Slovenia
We don’t have a twinning with Slovenia…but we ought to. We have 2 seperate friendship groups in different parts of this small former Yugoslav country. in the mountainous Gorice region we link with the […]
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2018 Twinning Week
In 2018 the DAVE THE MILKMAN big band was the headliner with Voice of the people choir hot on their tails. There was also a Whitney Houston tribute act plus several performances by visiting […]
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2017 Twinning week
Bridgwater is proud of it’s internationalist heritage and for the 3rd year running highlighted this whilst promoting it’s 5 twin towns from across Europe during the weekend of 22nd April including an Internationalist ‘drop […]
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2022 Twinning event
In 2022 we continued our tradition of holding our Twinning event in the evening of the Quayside festival. Our star act was BSL who was a performance artiste from Italy but living on Madeira. […]
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2021 Twinning Evening
Once more we did some twinning event. This time we managed to part broadcast and part do it live with the help of our friends at the Engine Room. Yvette and Brian formed a […]
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2019 Twinning
We had another twinning event in 2019. This was the year just before Covid hit and we did it at the Art Centre as usual and in line with the Quayside festival. star turn […]
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2020 Twinning Conference
As everyone who isn’t currently on the Virgin Interstellar rocket to Mars would know, 2020 wasn’t the best year on the planet. However, we managed to continue our annual twinning events, but this time […]
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USA
Well, Bridgwater has SOME links to the USA. As of course many British ‘olde worlde’ towns do. There’s 13 BridgEwaters across the US but the one we like best is Bridgewater Massachusetts which we […]
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