On Saturday December 2nd 2017, 56 people from Caen came to Portsmouth with the Friendship Committee and its leader from Caen Mme Claudine Cerisier. A further 46 came from the Caen region including Ouistreham and Saint Aubin Sur Mer with Mme Brigitte Poirer, a member of the Caen-Portsmouth Friendship Committee in Caen who works in partnership with our travel agency partner in Calvados 'Le Village des Sens'
They all left on the evening ferry from 22:45 on the Saturday evening. Mme Poirier remained here in Portsmouth to welcome the group coming in on the Sunday. On the Sunday, a further 22 came over accompanied by a tourist guide from Caen to visit the Festival on Sunday.
Both days including a visit to the Toby Carvery for a very British experience of a Full English Breakfast, they spent the morning and lunchtime at the Victorian Festival of Christmas before heading into Portsmouth's City Centre for a bit of shopping before heading to 'The Fleet' near the Guildhall for a pub dinner including the opportunity to have the traditional 'Fish and Chips'.
Well over a hundred people from Caen visited us for the Victorian Festival of Christmas this year. A huge increase on the 30+ in the first year we organised for them to come last year.
The galleries below are of some of the images taken over the week-end this year.
