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Fröhliche Weihnachten - Joyeux Noël - Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas - A historical article from Duisburg Merry Christmas Duisburg is Portsmouth’s twin city. A Christmas story about...
Harald Küst
Dec 12, 20212 min read
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Portsmouth European Cities Twinning Committee
Welcome to the landing page for everything related to Portsmouth European Cities Twinning Committee. tinyurl.com/portectc
Andrew Starr
Nov 22, 20213 min read
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Duisburg Portsmouth Promo Video
The Portsmouthfreunde in Duisburg have produced this promotional video for their twin city of Portsmouth and its attractions. There is an...
Andrew Starr
Jul 23, 20211 min read
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Street Art Project
This pages shareable link is: tinyurl.com/artduis Following the December virtual meeting with the Lord Mayor of Portsmouth, The Deputy...
Andrew Starr
Mar 16, 20215 min read
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Alles über Duisburg
In this blog, I would like to touch upon the main sights and sounds of Duisburg, but also some of the lesser-known places.
Andrew Starr
Dec 11, 20202 min read
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Duisburg 70th Anniversary Events
This blogpost will serve as the landing page for all things pertaining to our events celebrating 70 years of twinning with Duisburg....
Andrew Starr
Dec 7, 20202 min read
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An August visit from Duisburg
This year in August as usual, we had a coach load of visitors from our German twin city of Duisburg visit us. They had a packed itinerary...
Andrew Starr
Sep 11, 20191 min read
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The Lord Mayor's Rural and Seaside Show
A link for further information on the show can be found here. The ECTC will be hosting a stand at the Lord Mayor's Rural and Seaside...
Andrew Starr
May 3, 20191 min read
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Duisburg/Portsmouth 70th Anniversary Planning
Today I received word from The Portsmouthfreunde in Duisburg that they have begun to plan for the 70th anniversary of twinning between...
Andrew Starr
Apr 17, 20191 min read
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23 Tons of silver for Richard the Lionheart
This article sent to us by my German counterpart Jürgen Hordt from Duisburg is an article in their local paper Rheinische Post, published...
Andrew Starr
Sep 27, 20181 min read
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Our Facebook Discussion Group
If you want to be more involved with Portsmouth Twinning and help out organising events, swapping ideas and generally more in the loop...
Andrew Starr
Sep 11, 20181 min read
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Cheese and Wine Evening
On Saturday, October 6th 2018, the Portsmouth European Cities Twinning Committee (Caen and Duisburg merged) are organising a Cheese and...
Andrew Starr
Sep 11, 20181 min read
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Duisburg Portsmouth Freunde in Portsmouth
Between the 18th and 25th August 2018, a group of visitors from Duisburg arrived in Portsmouth. They were in 2 coaches and stayed at the...
Andrew Starr
Aug 28, 20181 min read
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Duisburg features in the UK Guardian Newspaper
Duisburg featured this month in the UK's Guardian Newspaper as Duisburg has become a major hub for products being shipped by train direct...
Andrew Starr
Aug 13, 20181 min read
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Kite Festival
We had a presence at this year's kite Festival for the first time as the new joint twinning committees for Caen and Duisburg. A full post...
Andrew Starr
Aug 13, 20181 min read
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Mayor Making 2018
Tuesday May 15th 2018 saw the Mayor Making Ceremony for Portsmouth's New Lord Mayor Cllr Lee Mason. A more detailed article is available...
Andrew Starr
May 16, 20181 min read
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Eurorock in Duisburg
This post is prepared by Vicky Halliday who accompanied the performers to Eurorock several times. In this blog post we will look at...
Vicky Halliday & Andrew Starr
Apr 18, 20181 min read
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Guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr!
Here in Portsmouth we wish all our readers a Happy New Year! or a good slide into the new year as they say in Germany! Here is one of...
Andrew Starr
Dec 31, 20171 min read
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Weihnachtsgrüße
Wir wünschen Alle hier ein frohes Weihnachtsfest und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr! A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our...
Andrew Starr
Dec 21, 20171 min read
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Weihnachten in Duisburg
I was lucky enough to be able to arrange to fly to Düsseldorf from Southampton Airport and take the short train journey up to Duisburg on...
Andrew Starr
Dec 10, 20171 min read
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