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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 […]

Rock tours have been a feature of the Bridgwater-Czech link. The very first trip to our twin town,Uherske Hradiste (then part of Czechoslovakia) in 1992 took the form of a rock tour. With only […]

Students from Bridgwater College catering course spent a week in East Europe visiting Slovakian college, sharing cooking experiences and learning something about the local culture and people amidst the sunlit landscape of the High Tatra mountains. Starting […]

The first visit by Yeovil College to the Czech Republic and Slovakia for more than 10 years was designed to study comparative Health & Social care provision in both countries and involved planes, trains, […]

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 […]