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 […]
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2012 Kladno Teachers ‘Round Wessex by Minibus’
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 […]
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2011 Prague students in Bridgwater for Fair
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 […]
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2011 Making a Splash in the Med
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 […]
Read more2011 La Ciotat: Bridgwater’s first twinning re-visited
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 […]
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30th Anniversary Trip to Croatia October 2022
It’s 30 years since Bridgwater twinned with Uherske Hradiste in the Czech Republic. During those years our main partner has been the company Altech, owned by our co-founder Antonin Machala, who have joined us […]
Read moreBridgwater International
We set up in 1991 as the Bridgwater Czech-Slovak Friendship Society – the first post-Velvet Revolution Czech/English twinning (Bridgwater-Uherske Hradiste). Since this time we have developed from the usual ‘twinning’ programme (exchanges/ home hosting/civic […]
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