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Cultural Exchange, Old Style

December 4, 2007

We members of the Alexandria Sister Cities Committee had a busy weekend. We hosted mayors from three of our four sister cities (or “twins,” as the less gender-specific Europeans call them)–Caen, France; Dundee, Scotland; and Helsingborg, Sweden. A fourth mayor, sort of a relative once-removed, also visited from Wurzburg, Germany, which is twinned with Caen [...]