Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: sandgrounder on May 17, 2013, 19:59:49 PM
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Is your home town twinned with any town overseas? The reason I ask is that my home town of Southport has been asked to twin with...wait for it...Ayia Napa!!!!!!!! The mind boggles! Free junkets for our elected councillors at a time when all local authority budgets are being slashed to the bare bones.
Time for some serious thinking about who gets my vote in the next local elections :o
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My home town of Helensburgh is twinned with Thouars in Western France
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I see the connection between Ayia Napa and Southport Russ.
In Ayia Napa nobody goes clubbing till 3am. Roughly the same time as most residents of Southport get up.
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I live in Windsor and we're twinned with Neuilly in France (since 1955), Goslar in Germany (since 1969) and Kortrijk in Belgium (since 1981). Nearby Maidenhead is also twinned with Frascati in Italy. It's been great for me over the years because, as a solo singer, I was always getting asked to go to these places with choirs and orchestras for cultural exchange tours and stuff. Sadly it's all dried up in the last 10 years or so because no one can pay for it but it was fun while it lasted. Might have done some good too. Who knows?
;D
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Calis and Calais
That would confuse a few.
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birkenhead is twinned with
genneville france
lorient france
midland texas usa
lots and lots of freebies on here for the council folks to go :-X
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Think Uzumlu is now twinned with Frinton... :D
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Sadly Frinton said they were still looking for a place more like their little town. Uzumlu was a bit to quiet unfortunately.
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we're twinned with Neuilly in France (since 1955), Goslar in Germany (since 1969) and Kortrijk in Belgium (since 1981). Nearby Maidenhead is also twinned with Frascati in Italy. It's been great for me over the years because, as a solo singer, I was always getting asked to go to these places with choirs and orchestras for cultural exchange tours and stuff.
My home town Leighton Buzzard is twinned with Coulommiers in France and as my dad was in the local band (brass) and for a time the MD of the Leighton Operatic Society (wouldn't think that would you Suzzo :p ) there were many exchanges which mainly involved 50-odd men blowing their horns then going to get p***ed on cheap French lager.
It was absolutely brilliant, we stayed in some great holiday villages and those Frenchies can make a civic reception last for a week. Coulomiers is most famous for its cheese, sneakily called Coulommiers, very similar to Camembert. We spent a week meeting big cheeses and eating big cheeses.
Leighton Buzzard is not famous for it's cheese. It is famous for being vaguely near where the Great Train Robbery happened, and Kajagoogoo.
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birkenhead is twinned with
genneville france
lorient france
midland texas usa
lots and lots of freebies on here for the council folks to go :-X
In fairness Puma I wouldn't have thought there would be a queue of towns wishing to twin with Birkenhead. ;)
We have been twinned with Reutlingem in Germany for years why I will never know. To me its a Councillors dream. Go and find a town to twin with. oh ok can we claim expenses?
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I see the connection between Ayia Napa and Southport Russ.
In Ayia Napa nobody goes clubbing till 3am. Roughly the same time as most residents of Southport get up.
That was probably the case many years ago Keith but not now unfortunately. Southport town centre is now more like Gdansk or Warsaw on a Saturday night!
It's a sad indictment on our hometown when we have to travel to Liverpool or Manchester to find a decent night out or indeed even a decent restaurant! I'm not even going to hazard a guess as to what twinning with Ayia Napa will bring?? Maybe a couple of decent DJ's for the kids to enjoy lol.
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My home town Leighton Buzzard is twinned with Coulommiers in France and as my dad was in the local band (brass) and for a time the MD of the Leighton Operatic Society (wouldn't think that would you Suzzo :p ) there were many exchanges which mainly involved 50-odd men blowing their horns then going to get p***ed on cheap French lager.
It was absolutely brilliant, we stayed in some great holiday villages and those Frenchies can make a civic reception last for a week. Coulomiers is most famous for its cheese, sneakily called Coulommiers, very similar to Camembert. We spent a week meeting big cheeses and eating big cheeses.
Leighton Buzzard is not famous for it's cheese. It is famous for being vaguely near where the Great Train Robbery happened, and Kajagoogoo.
Your dad gets more and more interesting the more I hear about him. A sound engineer at the BBC, a brass player, a musical director... Waddaguy!
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The state of the roads in calis they should be twinned with kandaha. ???
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birkenhead is twinned with
genneville france
lorient france
midland texas usa
lots and lots of freebies on here for the council folks to go :-X
In fairness Puma I wouldn't have thought there would be a queue of towns wishing to twin with Birkenhead. ;)
We have been twinned with Reutlingem in Germany for years why I will never know. To me its a Councillors dream. Go and find a town to twin with. oh ok can we claim expenses?
[/quote whatever!! everyone to their own ( what are you hinting at ?)
someone must of thought it was worthwhile like the 3 towns mentioned above
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Sadly Frinton said they were still looking for a place more like their little town. Uzumlu was a bit to quiet unfortunately.
Ouch! Nice to see we can still attract positive comments for Uzumlu, at least we aren't forgotten on CBF :)