Two months to go

There are now only two months to go before the final of the Eurovision Song Contest on 21 May 2005, at 2100 hours, Central European Time.

The Eurovision Song Contest is a very famous song competition which is broadcast throughout Europe and luckily for us, also in Australia (but sadly not the USA). The first Eurovision was held in 1956. The one this year will be the 50th.

This year, the Eurovision will be held at the Sports Palace (Palats Sportu) in Kiev, in the Ukraine.

The fun part is not the entries from each country (though that is often entertaining), but in the tallying of votes in both English and French.

"Hallo Kiev, here are the results from the tele-voting by Cyprus. United Kingdom, one point, Royaume-Uni, un point pwarnt... Greece, twelve points, La Grèce, douze points pwarnt".

And so on until the winner is announced, and it goes on for hours.

Eurovision Song Contest official site

It is a lot more fun than Pop Idol (the UK original), American Idol, Australian Idol etc.

And Eurovision was how ABBA came to the attention of the world when they won in 1974 with Waterloo.

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It rained today. I was also given a long brush.

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