Thinking about the "sister city" thing following a radio piece, and about how it seems pretty meaningless in many cases.
I had no idea where Ottawa's sister city is. It never seems to be mentioned nor celebrated here. Turns out we have two – Beijing and Catania.
Presumably it's supposed to foster trade and tourism relationships, but I suspect beyond an initial announcement, it usually fades into obscurity.
Does your city celebrate and build on a sister city relationship?
@ottaross here (northern Italy) they are pretty common and often written on the signs at the entrance of municipalities
afaik most of the times it's just a few delegates from each place going to visit the other place for a meal every year or so
and we have also a funny case of two sister villages that are a 50 km drive from each other, in the same province (Schignano and Cermenate), which. just. why???
@ottaross I don't think they could be home for lunch.
this is Italy
the trade and tourism delegations can wake up at a comfortable time in the morning, meet for lunch¹, and then all move together to the other village for dinner² :D
¹ midday meal
² evening meal
Ross of Ottawa
Elena ``of Valhalla''