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2022

Christmas Lunch

Sunday 18 December 2022

Lucca Mayor's Fiftieth Anniversary Letter

Thursday 8 December 2022

Evening Meeting - Herman Cole

Thursday 17 November 2022

Remembrance Sunday

Sunday 13 November 2022

Evening Meeting - Belgium

Thursday 20 October 2022

Twin Towns Charity Music Concert

Friday 7 October 2022

Evening Meeting and AGM

Thursday 15 September 2022

Evening "St Edmund" Guided Walk

Thursday 21 July 2022

Canoe Camping Oxford

19 - 25 July 2022

Bastille Day Cycling Trip to Argentan

11 - 17 July 2022

Church Twinning Visit to Schongau and Oberammergau 

7 - 11 July 2022

Weekend in Colmar to celebrate 60 years of twinning

Inauguration of the Dominican Library, Colmar

23 - 27 June 2022

Evening Garden Party

Tuesday 21 June 2022

Colmar visitors in Abingdon for the Diamond Jubilee

3 - 5 June 2022

Evening Meeting - Karaoke

Thursday 19 May 2022

TT60 Quiz night from Sint-Niklaas

Thursday 12 May 2022

Presentation of an Honour from Lucca

Wednesday 11 May 2022

Europe Day Meal

Monday 9 May 2022

Evening Meeting - John Jones and Lucca

Thursday 21 April 2022

Evening Meeting - History of the Oxford–Didcot Railway

Thursday 17 March 2022

Evening Meeting - Abingdon Abbey’s Deer Park and Radley Large Wood

Thursday 17 February 2022

Evening Meeting - Quiz Night

Thursday 20 January 2022

2021

Christmas Lunch

Sunday 19 December 2021

Evening Meeting - Women of Oxford

Thursday 18 November 2021

Remembrance Sunday

Sunday 14 November 2021

Evening Meeting - National Anthems

Thursday 21 October 2021

Evening Meeting and AGM

Thursday 16 September 2021

Evening Meeting - Drinks Party

Monday 19 July 2021

Evening Meeting - Sint-Niklaas

Thursday 20 May 2021

Europe Day

Sunday 9 May 2021

Evening Meeting - Quiz

Thursday 15 April 2021

Evening Meeting - Abingdon Liveable Streets

Thursday 18 March 2021

Evening Meeting - Colmar

Thursday 18 February 2021

Evening Meeting - A Zoom in on Argentan

Thursday 21 January 2021

2020

Twin Towns Meet Up

Sunday 20 December 2020

Christmas Get Together

Sunday 20 December 2020

Pictures from our Twin Towns

November & December 2020

Remembrance Sunday

Sunday 8 November 2020

Evening Meeting & AGM

Thursday 15 October 2020 - online via Zoom

Tour of the Bothy Vineyard

Thursday 10 September 2020

Europe Day International Zoom Meeting

Saturday 9 May 2020

Evening Meeting - Lucca – Talk and Tasting – Maria Curto

Thursday 20 February 2020

Evening Meeting - Quiz evening

Thursday 23 January 2020

2019

Christmas Lunch

Sunday 22 December 2019

Weekend Trip to Sint-Niklaas

23 - 24 November 2019

Evening Meeting - Russian Evening

Thursday 21 November 2019

Remembrance Day Visitors

8 - 11 November 2019

Evening Meeting - Fifty Years of Twinning

Thursday 17 October 2019

Visit From Argentan Students

7 - 14 October 2019

Evening Meeting and AGM

Thursday 19 September 2019

Church Twinning Trip to Argentan

19 - 23 September 2019

Sint-Niklaas Twinning Weekend

5 - 9 September 2019

Schongau Language Course

13 - 20 July 2019

Canoe Camping Twinning Weekend

27 June - 1 July 2019

Evening Drinks Party

Thursday 20 June 2019

Evening Meeting - Léger

Thursday 23 May 2019

Twinning Weekend in Colmar

16 - 20 May 2019

Europe Day Meal

Thursday 9 May 2019

Evening Meeting - Recycling

Thursday 18 April 2019

Abingdon Passion Play Weekend

5 - 7 April 2019

Film Show - "In the Fade"

Thursday 4 April 2019

Lucca Parkrun

Saturday 23 March 2019

Evening Meeting - French Party Evening

Thursday 21 March 2019

Clubs and Societies Day

Saturday 16 March 2019

Evening Meeting - Fasching/Carnival

Thursday 21 February 2019

Evening Meeting - Twin Towns Quiz Night

Thursday 17 January 2019

2018

Christmas Lunch

Sunday 16 December 2018

Evening Meeting - "Festivals of our Twin Towns"

Wednesday 21 November 2018

Remembrance Weekend Visitors

9 - 12 November 2018

Evening Meeting - The Colourful Life of Richard Wagner

Wednesday 17 October 2018

Visit to Colmar

27 September - 1 October 2018

Colmar Visit to Abingdon Church Twinning

30 August - 3 September 2018

Canoe Camping Twinning Weekend

19 - 23 July 2018

Trip to Argentan for Bastille Day

13 - 16 July 2018

Puccini's Heroines at Waterperry Gardens

Saturday 7 July 2018

Evening Meeting - Drinks Party

Wednesday 20 June 2018

Visitors from Colmar

13 - 17 June 2018

Visit to Argentan by Bicycle

21 - 26 May 2018

Twinning Walking Weekend in Abingdon

10 - 14 May 2018

Europe Day Meal - Kings Head and Bell, Abingdon

Wednesday 9 May 2018

Evening Meeting - Brightwell Vineyard

Wednesday 18 April 2018

Visit to Lucca

22 - 26 March 2018

Opera Visit: Madama Butterfly

Saturday 24 February 2018

Evening Meeting - The Jews in Oxford History

Wednesday 21 February 2018

Evening Meeting - French Games and Quizzes

Wednesday 17 January 2018

2017

Christmas Lunch

Sunday 17 December 2017

Evening Meeting - Christmas in our Twin Towns

Wednesday 15 November 2017

Remembrance Ceremony

Sunday 12 November 2017

Evening Meeting - 800 Years of Sint-Niklaas

Wednesday 18 October 2017

Gourmet Week in Argentan

9 - 12 October 2017

Evening Meeting and AGM

Wednesday 20 September 2017

Walking Weekend in Colmar

6 - 10 September 2017

Sint-Niklaas Twinning Weekend

4 - 7 August 2017 - Sint-Niklaas

Afternoon Tea - Abbey Buildings

Sunday 30 July 2017

School Visit to Argentan

13 - 16 July 2017

Abingdon "Language" Week

1 - 8 July 2017

Evening Meeting - Summer Drinks Party

Wednesday 21 June 2017

Youth Footballers Visit Argentan

9 - 12 June 2017

Argentan Cyclists Exchange Visit to Abingdon

2 - 5 June 2017

Church Twinning Visit to Sint-Niklaas

1 - 5 June 2017

Evening Meeting - St Ethelwold's House 

Wednesday 17 May 2017

Colmar Twinning Weekend

11 - 15 May 2017

Europe Day Meal

Tuesday 9 May 2017

Argentan Visit to Abingdon and Wantage Tennis Clubs

28 April - 1 May 2017

Evening Meeting - Twin Towns Tipples

Wednesday 19 April 2017

Film Show - "Gemma Bovary"

Thursday 30 March 2017

Evening Meeting - "A Foot in Both Camps"

Wednesday 15 March 2017

Opera Visit: La Bohème

Thursday 16 February 2017

Evening Meeting - Representing the Queen in Abingdon

Wednesday 15 February 2017

Evening Meeting - Songs from the Twin Towns

Wednesday 18 January 2017

2016

Christmas Lunch

Sunday 18 December 2016

Argentan Christmas Market

16 - 18 December 2016

Evening Meeting - Stories of Lucca with Maria Curto

Wednesday 16 November 2016

Remembrance Ceremony

Sunday 13 November 2016

Twinning Visit from Argentan

10 - 14 November 2016

Evening Meeting - History of Abingdon

Wednesday 19 October 2016

AGM & Evening Meeting

Wednesday 21 September 2016

Lucca Luminara

13 September 2016

Sint-Niklaas Balloon Festival

2 - 4 September 2016

Drayton Twinning Visit to Lesparre-Médoc

21 - 26 July 2016

Annual Garden Party

Sunday 3 July 2016

Abingdon Twinning Weekend

30 June - 4 July 2016

Informal Social Evening

Wednesday 15 June 2016

Evening Meeting - Food & Drink of the Twin Towns

Wednesday 18 May 2016

Europe Day Dinner

Monday 9 May 2016

Gardens Trip to Sint-Niklaas

21 - 25 April 2016

Evening Meeting - Vale Twinning Quiz

Wednesday 20 April 2016

Film Show - "Emil and the Detectives"

Thursday 24 March 2016

Evening Meeting - Giacomo Puccini (1853 - 1924)

Wednesday 16 March 2016

Theatre Visit - Tosca

Friday 26 February 2016

Evening Meeting - Argentan

Wednesday 17 February 2016

Colmar Weekend - Unterlinden Museum Reopens

21 - 24 January 2016

Evening Meeting - Lesparre-Médoc

Wednesday 20 January 2016

2015

Christmas Lunch

Sunday 20 December 2015

Evening Meeting - Italian Cookery

Wednesday 18 November 2015

Remembrance Ceremony

Sunday 8 November 2015

Evening Meeting - Roman Oxfordshire

Wednesday 21 October 2015

Lucca Cookery and Language Course

11 - 18 October 2015

Evening Meeting - AGM

Wednesday 16 September 2015

Garden Party

Sunday 26 July 2015

Schongau School Visit

Saturday 25 July 2015

English Language Course in Abingdon

11 - 18 July 2015

Abingdon Cyclists to Argentan

27 - 31 May 2015

Argentan Tennis Club in Abingdon

25 - 27 May 2015

Europe Day Dinner

Saturday 9 May 2015

Evening Meeting - Salters Steamers from 1850 to the present day

Wednesday 15 April 2015

Film Show

Thursday 26 March 2015

Evening Meeting - New Zealand / Coromandel / Thames

Wednesday 18 March 2015

Evening Meeting - Abingdon at War

Wednesday 18 February 2015

Evening Meeting - Members' Evening

Wednesday 21 January 2015

2014

Christmas Lunch

Sunday 21 December 2014

Evening Meeting - Punch and Judy

Wednesday 19 November 2014

Visit from Lucca

6 - 11 November 2014

Italian Market

Saturday 25 October 2014

Evening Meeting - The French in London

Wednesday 15 October 2014

Colmar Visit

25 - 29 September 2014

AGM & Evening Meeting

Wednesday 17 September 2014

Argentan Church Visit

1 - 4 September 2014

Annual Garden Party

Sunday 27 July 2014

Bastille Day Trip to Normandy

11 - 15 July 2014

Colmar Language Course

17 - 24 May 2014

Europe Day Meal

Friday 9 May 2014

Abingdon Twinning Weekend

8 - 12 May 2014

Argentan Cyclists Visit

1 - 4 May 2014

Evening Meeting - Schongau, the Pfaffenwinkel and the Romantische Strasse

Wednesday 16 April 2014

Italian Market

Saturday 5 April 2014

Film Show - OSS117, Cairo Nest of Spies

Thursday 3 April 2014

Clubs & Societies Day

Saturday 29 March 2014

Argentan School Visit

Monday 24 March 2014

Evening Meeting - European School Systems

Wednesday 19 March 2014

Evening Meeting: Shared Twinning Delights

Wednesday 19 February 2014

War & Peace Trip to Sint-Niklaas

15 - 19 February 2014

Evening Meeting: The French Revolution

Wednesday 15 January 2014

2013

Tree Planting

Wednesday 18 December 2013

Christmas Lunch

Sunday 15 December 2013

Evening Meeting - Wine Tasting

Wednesday 20 November 2013

Remembrance Sunday

Sunday 10 November 2013

Visit to Lucca

18 - 21 October 2013

Evening Meeting - Famous Belgians

Wednesday 16 October 2013

Opera Visit - WNO Tosca

Tuesday 15 October 2013

Visit to Lucca

27 - 30 September 2013

AGM & Evening Meeting - French Songs

Wednesday 18 September 2013

Visitors from Argentan

12 - 16 September 2013

Annual Garden Party

Sunday 21 July 2013

Abingdon English Language Course

7 - 14 July 2013

Visit by Sint-Niklaas Choir

6 - 10 July 2013

European School Anniversary Fair

Saturday 18 May 2013

Europe Day Dinner

Thursday 9 May 2013

Film Show - "POTICHE"

Thursday 2 May 2013

Evening Meeting - Two Colmar Artists

Wednesday 17 April 2013

French Market

Saturday 13 April 2013

Tennis Exchange to Argentan

10 - 14 April 2013

Sint-Niklaas School Visit

Tuesday 26 March 2013

Evening Meeting - Cycling in Europe

Wednesday 20 March 2013

Colmar School Visit

Wednesday 20 March 2013

Schools Exchange from Argentan

16 - 23 March 2013

Evening Meeting - Saint Valentine

Wednesday 20 February 2013

Schools Exchange to Argentan

19 - 25 January 2013

Evening Meeting - Jeux Sans Frontières

Wednesday 16 January 2013

2012

Christmas Lunch

Sunday 16 December 2012

Colmar Anniversary Weekend

6 - 10 December 2012

Official Visit to Colmar

22 - 24 November

Evening Meeting - "Ballooning"

Wednesday 21 November 2012

Remembrance Sunday

Sunday 11 November 2012

Opera Visit: La Boèhme

Saturday 27 October 2012

Evening Meeting: "Reynard the Fox"

Wednesday 17 October 2012

Mayors / Twinning Conference

15 - 18 October 2012

Visit to Argentan

4 - 8 October 2012

AGM & Evening Meeting

Wednesday 19 September 2012

Alsace Patchwork

13 - 16 September 2012

Schongau Churches Visit

6 - 10 September 2012

Annual Garden Party

Sunday 22 July 2012

Churches Visit Argentan

21 - 25 June 2012

Argentan School Visit

11 June 2012

American Visitors for the Jubilee

1 - 4 June 2012

Cycling Trip to Argentan

17 - 20 May 2012

A Night of Opera

Monday 14 May 2012

Europe Day

Wednesday 9 May 2012

Film Show

Thursday 3 May 2012

Church Twinning Visitors from Colmar

1 - 6 May 2012

Clubs & Societies Day

Saturday 21 April 2012

Evening Meeting - European Circle Dancing

Wednesday 18 April 2012

Argentan Quasimodo Fair

14 - 15 April 2012

Argentan Tennis Players Visit

13 - 15 April 2012

Schools Visit Argentan

24 - 31 March 2012

Evening Meeting - Alsace

Wednesday 21 March 2012

Evening Meeting - Abingdon Museum

Wednesday 15 February 2012

Evening Meeting - Quiz

Wednesday 18 January 2012

2011

Christmas Lunch

Sunday 18 December 2011

Churches visit Schongau

1 - 6 December 2011

Pavlova visits Colmar

1 - 5 December 2011

Evening Meeting - Any Questions?

Wednesday 16 November 2011

Remembrance Sunday

Sunday 13 November 2011

Canoeists from Argentan

10 - 13 November 2011

Evening Meeting - Tuscany

Wednesday 19 October 2011

Marathon Pasta Party

Saturday 15 October 2011

French Market

Saturday 24 September 2011

Burgess Trust Project in Colmar

September 2011

AGM & Evening Meeting

Wednesday 21 September 2011

Lucca Luminaria

Tuesday 13 September 2011

Visit to Schongau

12 - 16 August 2011

Garden Party

Sunday 24 July 2011

Lucca Garden Party

Sunday 3 July 2011

Argentan Cyclists Visit

24 - 27 June 2011

Colmar Twinning Weekend

16 - 20 June 2011

Sint-Niklaas Dancers Visit

17 - 19 June 2011

Adult Twinning Weekend

2 - 6 June 2011

Evening Meeting

Wednesday 18 May 2011

Dragon Boat Races

Sunday 15 May 2011

Europe Day

Monday 9 May 2011

Argentan Quasimodo Fair

30 April - 1 May 2011

Evening Meeting

Wednesday 20 April 2011

Colmar School Visit

Friday 15 April 2011

French Market

Saturday 9 April 2011

Film Show

Thursday 7 April 2011

Colmar School Visit

Thursday 31 March 2011

Evening Meeting - Abingdon History

Wednesday 16 March 2011

Community Shop Week

28 February - 5 March 2011

Evening Meeting - Lucca

Wednesday 16 February 2011

Evening Meeting - Twin Towns Quiz with tasting rounds

Wednesday 19 January 2011

2010

Christmas Lunch

Sunday 19 December 2010

Twin Towns Conference - Sint-Niklaas

10 - 13 December 2010

Churches visit to Schongau

2 - 6 December 2010 - cancelled

Evening Meeting: Alsace and the Christmas Tree

Wednesday 17 November 2010

Argentan Churches Visit for Remembrance Weekend

11 - 14 November 2010

Evening Meeting: LITERARY ABINGDON in conjunction with Mostly Books

Wednesday 20 October 2010

Evening Meeting - AGM

Wednesday 22 September 2010

Visit to Lucca Luminara

9 - 14 September 2010

An "American Party"

Friday 30 July 2010

Visit from Argentan Scouts

13 - 24 July 2010

Ashmolean Tour

Sunday 18 July 2010

Abingdon Language Course

11 - 18 July 2010

Visit from Colmar Choir

Monday 12 July 2010

Concert by Sint-Niklaas Choir

Sunday 4 July 2010

Pavlova Visit to Colmar

18 - 20 June 2010

Blewbury Manor Open Day Teas

Sunday 13 June 2010

Visit from Sint-Niklaas Women

8 - 12 June 2010

School Visit from Argentan

5 - 12 June 2010

Schongau Twinning Weekend

2 - 6 June 2010

Church Choirs Visit to Argentan

28 - 31 May 2010

Europe Day Dinner

Sunday 9 May 2010

Blewbury Manor Open Day Teas

Sunday 2 May 2010

Film Show

Thursday 22 April 2010

Evening Meeting - Art Deco

Wednesday 21 April 2010

Visit to Eltham Palace

Tuesday 20 April 2010

Tour of Blewbury Manor Gardens

Thursday 15 April 2010

French Language School

10 - 17 April 2010

Clubs & Societies Day

Saturday 10 April 2010

Argentan Quasimodo Fair

9 - 12 April 2010

Evening Meeting - Ashmolean

17 March 2010

Morris Men Visit Sint-Niklaas

12 - 14 March 2010

French Market

12 - 13 March 2010

Evening Meeting - Lucca & Tuscany

17 February 2010

Evening Meeting - German Beer and Snacks

20 January 2010

2009

Christmas Lunch

20 December 2009

Schongau Twinning Conference

7 – 10 December 2009

Colmar Twinning Weekend

3 - 7 December 2009

Colmar Book Fair

21 – 22 November 2009

Evening Meeting - French Songs

18 November 2009

Opera Visit

7 November 2009

American Tour of Oxford

28 October 2009

Evening Meeting - "A Cheeseboard"

21 October 2009

Visit from Colmar

8 - 11 October 2009

Argentan Half-Marathon

1 - 4 October 2009

Visits to Argentan

Summer & Autumn 2009

MG Car Club visit Argentan

17 - 22 September 2009

Evening Meeting: AGM

16 September 2009

Fun in the Park

13 September 2009

Sint-Niklaas Balloon Festival Visit

3 - 7 September 2009

American Reunion Barbecue

Sunday 26 July 2009

Garden Party

Sunday 19 July 2009

Abingdon Lawn Tennis Club visit to Argentan

10 - 15 July 2009

Italian Market

26 - 28 June 2009

Teas at Blewbury Manor Garden Open Day

Sunday 14 June 2009

Biking from Abingdon to Argentan

5 - 7 June 2009

Colmar Choir Visit

21 - 24 May 2009

Schongau Twinning Weekend

14 - 18 May 2009

Sint-Niklaas Twinning Weekend

7 - 11 May 2009

Dragon Boat Races

Sunday 10 May 2009

Europe Day - Dinner

Saturday 9 May 2009

Europe Day - Rock Concert

Saturday 9 May 2009

Film Evening

Thursday 30 April 2009

Argentan Quasimodo Fair

17 - 20 April 2009

Evening Meeting - Blewbury Manor Gardens

Wednesday 15 April 2009

Funeral - Heather Pennington

Tuesday 14 April 2009

Colmar School Visit

Tuesday 7 April 2009

Diamond Light Project Twinning Weekend

20 - 24 March 2009

Colmar School Visit

Thursday 19 March 2009

Evening Meeting - Oberammergau

Wednesday 18 March 2009

Argentan School Exchange

Saturday 28 February 2009

Evening Meeting - "Alsace, its Wine & Culture"

Wednesday 18 February 2009

Evening Meeting - "A Taste of the Twin Towns"

Wednesday 21 January 2009

2008

Christmas Lunch

Sunday 14 December 2008

Colmar Book Fair

22 – 23 November 2008

Evening Meeting: Puccini Recital

Wednesday 19 November 2008

Evening Meeting - "It all started with Sint-Niklaas."

Wednesday 15 October 2008

Abingdon, Virginia

28 September - 11 October 2008

Garden Party Lunch

Sunday 27 July 2008

English Language Course

5 - 12 July 2008

Evening Meeting: Visit to Archaeological Dig

Wednesday 16 July 2008

French Tour of Oxford

Wednesday 11 June 2008

Colmar Twinning Weekend

29 May - 2 June 2008

Colmar School Visit

Wednesday 21 May 2008

Argentan School Visit

Saturday 17 May 2008

Dragon Boat Racing

Sunday 11 May 2008

Schongau Church Visit

8 - 12 May 2008

Europe Day Dinner

Friday 9 May 2008

Normandy Evening

Friday 2 May 2008

Colmar High School Visit

Friday 22 April 2008

Abingdon Societies Fair

Saturday 5 April 2008

Argentan Quasimodo Fair

29 - 30 March 2008

Evening Meeting: Archaeological Talk

Wednesday 19 March 2008

Winter Visit to Schongau

21 - 25 February 2008

German Meeting

Wednesday 20 February 2008

Belgian Evening

Wednesday 16 January 2008

2007

Christmas Lunch

Sunday 16 December 2007

Twinning Conference

27 - 29 November 2007

Visit to Colmar Book Fair

23 - 26 November 2007

French Evening

Wednesday 21 November 2007

Visit to Lucca

October 2007

Italian Wine Tasting Evening

Wednesday 17 October 2007