Showcasing the city to visitors from our twin city

This week we have enjoyed a visit from the Oberbürgermeister of our twin city of Krefeld in Germany. Our guests were very impressed with the city and places visited included Curve, the National Space Centre and the new digital media centre at Phoenix Square.

I enjoyed personally showing our German visitors around the historic old town area from the Roman Jewry Wall to the Castle area and the historic old town walls in the vicinity of Ruperts Gateway. We also visited the Guildhall and the exhibition of German expressionist art at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery.

And of course, we had lovely sunny weather throughout the whole of their three day visit!

Make the most of Leicester's history

The Lady Mayoress and I enjoyed an interesting visit to Leicester Castle this week.

We visited the historic courtrooms, went down into the medieval John of Gaunts Cellar and went up to the top of the Castle mound.

For centuries our castle was at the very centre of Leicester's political life. Today it is in need of considerable restoration but we still do have regular tours of the building advertised in the local press. In addition, Castle Gardens are open for all to enjoy and St Mary de Castro remains one of the most magnificent old churches in Leicester.

We anticipate showing this and many other historic features of our city to the Oberburgomeister of our twin city Krefeld when he visits us later this month.