Reading Roars! twins with Düsseldorf Blog
You may be aware that Reading has twinning agreements with several towns worldwide, one of them being the city of Düsseldorf, the capital of Nordrhein-Westfalen in Germany. Now, quite possibly for the first time ever (or quite possibly not), a twinning agreement has been struck between local blogs: Reading Roars! and Düsseldorf Blog.
Reading’s close relationship with Düsseldorf goes as far back as 1947 (it is described as one of the oldest such relationships in the world), and developed into an official twinning in 1975.
Now this agreement has entered the digital age.
So what does this partnership involve? To begin with, both blogs are now linked to each other. In addition to these reciprocal links, regular posts will be appearing on this blog from Düsseldorf Blog’s Wolfgang Osinski (look out for his first, on the local carnival phenomenon), and I will similarly post on Düsseldorf Blog.
I’m excited about this partnership and hope it will help to promote understanding and awareness of both cultures.
Matt Brady on January 31st 2007 in Culture, Dusseldorf, Reading Roars
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Patrick Bölling responded on 01 Feb 2007 at 11:56 am #
Feel free to have a look at Düsseldorf and roam around a little:
http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/cgi-bin/LugPaj/google_maps/gm.pl?lat=51.228602886556295&lng=6.774358749389648&scale=14&type=k
Alan Wicks responded on 08 Feb 2007 at 3:56 am #
On behalf of the team at the UK Town Twinning Portal, I would like to wish you all the best and success in your new “twogging” venture. To best of my knowledge this is the first time this has been done.
I like the word “twogging”.
I have posted news of your initiative on the forums at http://www.towntwining.org.uk and hope someone will like to follow your example.
Good luck
Alan Wicks
Matt Brady responded on 08 Feb 2007 at 6:35 am #
Thanks Alan!
The url above should, of course, be http://www.towntwinning.org.uk (i.e. with two “n”s).