Wigan Album
Angers...Wigans Twin Town
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Item #: 33233
map of the city centre of Angers, the twin town of Wigan. My wife and I
spent five nights at the Hotel Saint Julien so that we could attend the
wedding of Antonia, the daughter of our close friends who was to marry
Rafael, a young Frenchman from the nearby Loire Valley. We travelled to
Angers by car, having crossed the English Channel from Portsmouth to
Ouistreham on Brittany Ferries " Normandie ". Happy Days.
Wonder if these European towns twinned with United Kingdom towns shall eventually be revoked now we have left the EU?
The Angers Ambassadors were housed in one of the residents rooms at Mere Oaks School, no idea where the council housed them when that closed.
Wigan and Angers are as different as chalk and cheese. To make a "twin-town" comparison is nothing more than laughable.
I have to agree with the last comment.
Twinning pre-dates the ECC and EU - and will continue no matter what.
The Real James Hanson, for once I totally agree with you, even the town of Niort described as being one of the ugliest in France is more beautiful than Wigan, especially the buildings.
https://www.thelocal.fr/20190104/four-reasons-to-visit-frances-ugliest-town/
Some towns and cities in the UK are actually un-twinning: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16408111