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ADASTRAL PARK TWINNING ASSOCIATION
December 2007
WINTER NEWSLETTER
Adastral Park committee: Tony Gould (Chairman), Eileen Willis (Vice Chairman), Mark Kempton (Treasurer), Mark Kempton (Webmaster), David Cheeseman (Visit organiser) Jon Nixey (German Consultant)
Members: All members and any non-members are welcome to attend any committee meetings, offer suggestions or volunteer to be co-opted for a specific twinning activity.
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T W I N N I N G V I S I T S
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Twinning from Darmstadt, Germany - Wednesday 21st May to Sunday 25th May 2008 The dates for the visit from our guests in Darmstadt are now fixed. Now is your chance to sense the flavour of twinning through an easy introduction of being a host at all the events. Nearly all our guests speak good English so your German speaking capabilities can be nil. The Germans are very keen to visit us, so if you have never participated before you can be assured of a very friendly warm response. Look at our website http://www.apta.org.uk for an article on last year's visit. The provisional programme is as follows: Wednesday 2lst May 2008: Travel from Darmstadt Thursday 22nd May 2008: Cultural excursion day. Friday 23rd May 2008: Local technical visit, lunch, shopping, evening barbecue Saturday 24th May 2008: Families day (bike tour and/or walking) Sunday 25th May 2008: Travel back to Darmstadt
Twinning to Amiens, France – provisionally BH weekend Friday 22nd Aug - Tuesday 26th Aug 2008 The dates of our visit to Amiens, in the Picardy region of Northern France, have not yet been finalised, but the Bank Holiday weekend has been used on previous occasions. Amiens is less than two hours drive from Calais. Now is your chance to experience an easy visit as a guest. Better still, you could incorporate it as part of your French summer holiday arrangements this year. There will be a full programme of activities for the few days. Please advise Tony as soon as possible of your intent to join us so that all the guests can be orgamised well in advance. No prior experience is necessary. Look at our website http://www.apta.org.uk for an article on last year's visit.
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O T H E R E V E N T S
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Skiing week, La Clusaz, 13th to 20th January 2008 Organised by our French counterparts from Strasbourg. Contact: Germaine or Jean HIGUERET; 4 Rue Jean Coulmann 67170 BRUMATH, tél: 03 88 51 03 20; E-Mail gj.higueret@free.fr Full board with wine cost 375 euros.
Skiing week, Pozza di Fassa, 8th to 15th March 2008 Organised by our Italian counterpart, Nicola Di Biase, price 360/360 Euros staying in the Hotel Meida. Contact: Eurojum.infomilano@alice.it
Skiing week, Areches, 9th to 16th March 2008 Organised by our French counterparts from Strasbourg. Contact: Germaine or Jean HIGUERET; 4 Rue Jean Coulmann 67170 BRUMATH, tél: 03 88 51 03 20; E-Mail gj.higueret@free.fr Full board with wine cost 335 euros.
Skiing week, Les Karellis, Savoy Alps, 16th to 23rd March 2008 Organised by our French counterparts from Rouen and our twins from Darmstadt, Ralf Kullmann. Full board with wine cost 470/490 euros.
French castles long weekend, Quillan (in the Aude region), 17th to 20th April 2008 Organised by our French counterparts, Rene Gaurenne (0033/ 0/4 68 51 38 48) and Carmen Cabrol (0033/ /4 68 93 56 19) staying in a tourist village for 260 Euros.
Prague, cultural week, 19th to 26th April 2008 Organised by our French counterpart, (Evelyne Capitaine Rousselle tel : 0033/0/3 83 25 90 51 E-mail: evelyn.capitaine@wanadoo.fr) staying in a hotel for the week 545/730 Euros.
Hamburg, long weekend, From Sunday, 11th May 2008 to Tuesday, 13th May 2008 Organised by our German counterpart, Contact: Reinhold Moll, Tel.: 02275 4091
Ukrainian walking tour, 31st May 2008 to 14th June 2008 There will be a stop-over in Prague on the way out and Lemburg and Krakau. Price 1200 Euros. Organised by Meinhard Dausin, Tel. +49 (61 55) 60 55 29, E-Mail: Meinhard.Dausin@eurojumelages.eu Peter Gooß, Tel. +49 (61 51) 53 74 69, E-Mail: Peter_Gooss@yahoo.de Informationen: www.waldkarpaten.org and www.prospekt.uzhtal.de
Poland, Maeuria, international cultural week, 14th to 21st June 2008 Organised by our Polish counterparts, (Barbara Kozak, tel. 48 94 346 42 22, E-mail: jbarbarakozak@o2.pl and Waldemar Strzelecki, tel. 48 94 348 61 02, mail:Waldemar.Strzelecki@telekomunikacja.pl 370/420 Euros
Strasbourg, excursion week in the Southern Alps, 21st to 28th June 2008 Contact: Jean HIGUERET; tél: 03 88 51 03 20; E-Mail gj.higueret@free.fr Cost 380 Euros for full board with wine.
French Atlantic coast coach tour, 28th June to 7th July 2008 Hauteville sur –Mer (Normandy), Cite la Mer in Cherbourg, Bayeux, Mont-St-Michel, Villedieu-les-Poeles, Granville, Honfleur, St. Jean-des-Champs and Plages du Debarquement (invasion beaches). Organised by: Rolf Wojewodka, Bergstrasse 4, 64367 MÜHLTAL, Deutschland, Telefon und Fax: 06151 148 080 or Britt Haller Tel.: 06157 945513
Day trip to Boulogne, France - July 2008 – (date yet to be advised) It is likely that we will depart from Adastral Park at 06:00 hours prompt for Dover to catch the ferry to Calais where we’ll head off to a large hypermarket just outside Boulogne before continuing into Boulogne itself where we’ll be spending the rest of the afternoon. Hopefully, we should arrive back at Adastral Park around 23:00 hours. Passports will be required and the cost will be reasonable.
France, Dijon (Bourgogne region), science, hiking and wine half week, 27th to 30th August 2008 Organised by our French counterpart, (Evelyne Capitaine Rousselle tel : 0033/0/3 83 25 90 51, E-mail: evelyn.capitaine@wanadoo.fr), 250/300 Euros staying in an hotel.
Hot air balloon fiesta, Pareid, Lorraine region, France (aka mini-Metz) 26th July- 2nd August 2008 Possible opportunity to be part of the launch crew and retrieve activity for our hot air balloon. All travel and living expenses shared, flying costs extra (but no weather guarantee). All enquiries to Tony
Hot air balloon fiesta, Borken, (close to the Dutch border) Germany 3rd – 10th August 2008 Possible opportunity to be part of the launch crew and retrieve activity for our hot air balloon. All travel and living expenses shared, flying costs extra (but no weather guarantee). All enquiries to Tony
German Language Trip, Bonn, 16th to 23rd August 2008 Levels are lower intermediate and advanced. Cost 400 Euros staying in a youth hostel. There is a cultural and touristic programme every day. Contact person: kornelia.schweda@eurojumelages.eu
OSCAR 2008 cycling or walking week, Erfurt, Germany (Oberhof, Thuringer Forest), 10th to 14th Sept 2008 Organised by our German counterparts, (Dieter Benkert, Am Pfarrgarten 12 D-99439 Ballstedt dieter.benkert@eurojumelages.eu and Peter Morgenstern, Am Kiesberge 71, D-99159 Noda erfurt@eurojumelages.eu Staying in youth hostels, cost is 140 Euros
Hot air balloon championships, Athlone Eire 20th – 28th September 2008 Possible opportunity to be part of the launch crew and retrieve activity for our hot air balloon. All travel and living expenses shared, flying costs extra (but no weather guarantee). All enquiries to Tony
Reims, France, weekend, 3rd to 5th October 2008 Organised by our French counterpart, (Evelyne Capitaine Rousselle tel : 0033/0/3 83 25 90 51, E-mail: evelyn.capitaine@wanadoo.fr), approximately 220 Euros staying in an hotel.
Dahn in the Pfalz region of Germany, family sport weekend, 17th to 19th October 2008 Organised by our German counterpart, (Ralf Kullmann tel. +49 6151 937-2982, mobil +49 178 9714204, E-Mail: ralf.kullmann@eurojumelages.eu ) staying in a youth hostel, about 60 Euros.
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O T H E R A C T I V I T I E S
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French lessons - lunchtime at Adastral Park – all year The new term has just started. The classes run over lunchtime from 12.15 - 1.15pm and are in the admin block second floor conference room. The classes are fairly informal, based around a theme and led by Kate Pirkis (Pirkis1@aol.com 01473 737257) from Suffolk College. I think the level is about GSCE to early A level, but there is a wide range of abilities. Beginners class is on Wednesday and intermediate on Thursday. Everyone welcome.
Language courses – Europe – all year – 2008 courses (2008 not yet available, 2007 shown by example) There are formal residential language courses held from time to time organised by Eurojumelages, the international organisation. Apply to the local co-ordinator, not the secretariat. Tony can provide email addresses for each country. ( EuroJumelages, 57 rue de la Colonie, F-75013 Paris, France. Tel: +33 1 53 62 20 30, Fax: +33 1 53 62 11 66, email: uijpt@wanadoo.fr ) See the web: http://www.eurojumelages.eu
Azureva Holiday Villages - all year These are PTT holiday villages run on commercial lines but subsidised for French Post and Telecoms people as well as foreign twinners. www.azureva-vacances.com There are individual and group availabilities at forty locations in France. The Summer/Autumn catalogue is now available and bookings may be made via the PO Fellowship of Remembrance, tel: 01483 424929.
Vacances Actives – Mediterranean and Atlantic coast seaside resorts. www.vacances-actives.com Loisirs Vacances Tourisime – countryside location resorts. www.lvt-veacances.com RelaiSoleil Vacances - mountain resorts. www.relaisoleil.com These are very similar to Azureva above but seem to be good value commercial organisations.
BT International Twinning Federation This exists to provide a cohesive link amongst the local groups to provide a unified national approach. There is a publication called "Eurotwin" that is copied and distributed upon receipt. It contains information on language courses, holiday villages, ski holidays and international conferences, events in which many of our members have taken part. Eileen Willis represented us at the BTITF AGM in September 2006.. The 2007 AGM is yet to be held.
New twinning links: If you wish to initiate a link with a new country then please speak to the committee.
Pen Friends: A request has been made by a number of French, Spanish and Romanian teenagers for English pen friends.
Student exchanges: These can be arranged.
Eurotwin: This provides an overview of all the UK twinning activities. Normally there is a submission of our twinning exchange activities.
Pen Pals: There is a current request for a pen pal from a 12 year-old French girl.
Socials: Social activities are arranged from time to time but mainly in association with other twinning events.
Publicity: The Adastral Hub site restaurant has posters, latest newsletter and latest copy of Eurotwin. The Amigo notice-board has a copy of the latest newsletter.
BT intranet “Twinning” web site: We now have several pages allocated for the above giving the background, aims, and activities and the names and contact details for each EC member and each group. The Adastral Park sports and leisure site can be found at: http://www.atadastral.co.uk/Leisure/Clubs.asp and then selecting ‘Twinning’, but this will relay you to Mark’s external site.
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Notice of ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Friday 7th March 2008 - AP, Orion 3, meeting room 8
2008 AGM agenda: 1 Minutes of 2007 AGM 2 Matters arising 3 Chairman's report 4 Secretary's report 5 Treasurer's report 6 Auditor's report 7 Constitution rules 8 Any other business, APs, Eurojumelages questionnaire 9 Election of officers 10 Appointment of auditor 11 German visit 12 French visit 13 English language course |
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