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Over the August bank holiday weekend a 35-strong contingent of our German friends came to Chichester for three days of activities. The sun shone throughout, showing the city and countryside at its best.The programme was a mixture of formal and informal, group and...

For some, the trip to Speyer started at the crack of dawn in Northgate car park where 15 or so bleary-eyed Cicestrians boarded a minibus for Heathrow. From Terminal 2 it was a short flight to Frankfurt, and then a bus down the autobahn to Speyer. Others took different...

In August last year, following an invitation from Friends of Speyer’s Rob Campling, I went along to the George and Dragon in North Street to attend a ‘British evening for our visitors from Speyer’. Following Rob’s suggestion that we should arrange to meet up with some...

During July and August 2024, local artist Laura Buckle undertook a residency in Speyer, concluding with an exhibition. What follows is her account of those two months. My time In Speyer was truly life-changing. It felt an honour to be a part of such a long and rich...

Friends of Speyer were delighted to be featured in the Chichester Observer and on the Sussex World news site. The article discusses the twinning between Chichester and Speyer and how Friends of Speyer has been created to foster connections through activities in...

On 6 March 2023, The Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra, one of the University of Chichester’s many musical ensembles, was invited to perform in the Assembly Room at the twinning ceremony between Chichester and Speyer. Following a version of the Prelude to Charpentier’s Te Deum,...

I’m delighted to be introducing an innovative German teaching initiative at Chichester College. In 2020, we were on the point of setting up the first German language teaching at the College for some years, when COVID struck. Teaching at the College, as elsewhere, was...

10 members of the Rotary Club of Speyer visited Chichester on Friday 1st March for a long weekend visit hosted by the Rotary Club of Chichester. It was a great success and the Rotary Clubs like the cities are now twinned with a reciprocal visit to Speyer at the end of...