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 […]
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Germany
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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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One of our most popular tours is around the island of Ireland. We’ve done this with a couple of people in a car orĀ a minibus full or sometimes 2 minibusses. Clockwise or anti-Clockwise […]
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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 […]
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Of course most of our work is in England…..because that’s where Bridgwater is. We started the Twinnings in Bridgwater and that’s where we’re based so this is where we mainly suggest that visiting groups […]
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