How did you get the Monday off?

WaddockHunt wrote:

Some company would be nice

gimme a shout if you feel too lonely

but I might still be recovering from St.Mirren and Aalborg

Here's a (not very) interesting fact that few people on this board are likely to know (other than St Pauli Fifer and LZReid I would guess).

Ingolstadt is twinned with... Kirkcaldy.

Strange as Kirkcaldy is on the coast and Ingolstadt must be about as far away from the sea as you can get. Some lino connection?

I was at a meeting there this morning and noticed it on the "Welcome" sign.

Bhachgen wrote:

Ingolstadt is twinned with... Kirkcaldy. Strange as Kirkcaldy is on the coast and Ingolstadt must be about as far away from the sea as you can get. Some lino connection?

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According to this article, the history of "twin towns" started after WW2, when the consulate general in Munich suggested to form partnerships between cities in Britain and Germany. Other cities already had a Scottish twin, so Ingolstadt went for one as well. The agreement in 1962 was the 10th between cities of the two regions.

Bhachgen wrote:

Here's a (not very) interesting fact that few people on this board are likely to know (other than St Pauli Fifer and LZReid I would guess). Ingolstadt is twinned with... Kirkcaldy. Strange as Kirkcaldy is on the coast and Ingolstadt must be about as far away from the sea as you can get. Some lino connection? I was at a meeting there this morning and noticed it on the "Welcome" sign.

There are a few other towns in Fife twinned with German towns e.g. Dunfermline – Wilhelmshaven, Glenrothes – Boblingen, Leven – Holzminden. Other than school kid/student exchanges during the summer I’m not sure much else happens.

Here’s some more footie related UK-Germany twins

Birmingham – Leipzig
Cardiff – Stuttgart
Coventry – Dresden & Kiel
Derby – Osnabruck
Edinburgh – Munchen
Guildford – Freiburg
Glasgow – Nurnberg (probably the Rangers part of Weegieland)
Halifax – Aachen
Inverness – Augsburg
Leeds – Dortmund
Luton – Wolfsburg
Liverpool – Koln
Manchester – Chemnitz
Middlesbrough – Oberhausen
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne – Gelsenkirchen
Newham, London – Kaiserslautern
North Tyneside – Monchengladbach
Norwich – Koblenz
Portsmouth – Duisburg (split loyalties for the Pompey boys next Wednesday?)
Reading – Dusseldorf
Renfrewshire – Furth
Sunderland – Essen
Tunbridge Wells – Wiesbaden
Watford – Mainz

Bhachgen, what cultural exchanges take place between Aberystwyth and Kronberg?

St. Pauli Fifer wrote:

Bhachgen wrote: Here's a (not very) interesting fact that few people on this board are likely to know (other than St Pauli Fifer and LZReid I would guess). Ingolstadt is twinned with... Kirkcaldy. Strange as Kirkcaldy is on the coast and Ingolstadt must be about as far away from the sea as you can get. Some lino connection? I was at a meeting there this morning and noticed it on the "Welcome" sign. There are a few other towns in Fife twinned with German towns e.g. Dunfermline – Wilhelmshaven, Glenrothes – Boblingen, Leven – Holzminden. Other than school kid/student exchanges during the summer I’m not sure much else happens.

Maybe the district of St.Pauli should find some twins... the district around the Zeitgeist? Glasgow or the Gallowgate? Edinburgh?

School kid exchange is going on due to the Ingolstadt-connection and that's not too bad.
Hamburg has a couple of twins; I guess the deepest connection was to St.Petersburg. Established on invitation by the Sowjet Union and against a lot of pressure from our federal government in 1957, there was always contact and I remember having something like a partner family where we exchanged letters and sent over food and clothes when there was a big crisis around 1990 or so.
Marseille is another twin with a strong connection, loads of my friends went there because of school exchange programs. In the days of cheap flights that might look like no big deal, but I like that partnership/twin idea. It brings peoples closer to each other.

Derby/Osnabruck?

that's cool, have 2 good friends from Osnabruck.

bristol/hanover