Author: Brian Smedley

In fact Madeira. The Portuguese island out in the wild Atlantic. Our twin town there is the mountain top town of Camacha-mainly because it was the birthplace of our first Portuguese Mayor. Well, most […]

In fact our 4th twin town is Marsa in Malta. An odd choice for a twinning as a former British colony…and so far we haven’t taken any trips there at all. Although we have […]

Bridgwater is twinned with the Italian town of Priverno. An hour south of Rome by fast train and 30 minutes from the coast where we usually stay (at the beach hotel of Oasi di […]

When we twinned with UH in 1992 it was still Czechoslovakia..but the next year it divided into 2 countries. Czech Republic and Slovakia. So now we had 2 twins! Thanks to the work of […]

On 18th June 1992 Bridgwater became the first British town to twin with a Czech town after the Velvet Revolution of 1989. Uherske Hradiste, a small town in Moravia, near the Slovak border was […]

Bridgwater twinned with Homberg, in the state of Hesse in 1992. But in fact this twinning came about from the 1979 link up with Sedgemoor district and the Schwalm Eder Kreiss (district) in Germany. […]

Bridgwater’s first twin town was with the Mediterranean French sea port town of La Ciotat , a link dating back to 1957. Whilst most Somerset towns sensibly chose Normandy twin towns just across the […]

If you want to hear the original British spoken then visit Wales. The English coined the word Welsh-which meant ‘foreigners’ but the Welsh called themselves ‘Cymraeg’ -comrades. That so many different peoples share these […]

One of our most popular tours is around the island of Ireland. We’ve done this with a couple of people in a car or  a minibus full or sometimes 2 minibusses. Clockwise or anti-Clockwise […]

When we started doing our ‘Round Britain’ trips back in the 1990’s Scotland was just a small part of it. Of course such a spectacular country of such immense geography needs a whole tour […]