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Saturday 29.04.2006:
Most visitors had arrived on Friday on the German Wings
Flight from Stansted. They were met by hosts and transferred to Rheinbach by
private cars.
On Saturday morning almost everybody was treated to an
excellent guided tour of the city of Bonn. This included the Minster, the
Roman Remains, and the ex-government quarter.
After a tasty lunch at the Residence Hotel, the visitors
were treated to an informative tour of the Bonn University Botanical
Gardens.
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Sunday 30.04.2006: Friends
of Rheinbach link up with Friends of Pontoise to host a joint stand at the
annual town fair. On Sunday Morning at 11:00, a ceremony was held to name a
traffic roundabout
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for more photos)
in the centre of Rheinbach after Sevenoaks. One of 3 plaques
placed on the roundabout was
unveiled by Bürgermeister Stefan Raetz, assisted by members of the FvS
and FoR.
The ceremony was followed by a reception at the
town hall
where the Bürgermeister extended his warm greetings to the
group.
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On Sunday afternoon some of the guests also witnessed the
erection of the Rheinbach Maibaum (May tree) |
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Sunday ended in style with superb
buffet-dinner at the Glass School. Chris Ide
presented Siegfried Formanski with a genuine "Sevenoaks" oak tree along with
a plaque to commemorate 10 years of friendship |
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Monday 01.05.2006:
Following individual programmes with host families, most of
the guests returned to Sevenoaks. |
| The Friends of Rheinbach would like to extend
warm thanks to the members of the FvS who organised the visit and managed to look after us so well once again !
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