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Since I’ve been gone …

There was an hour for lunch - where we caught up with everything that had happened. Then, the rest of OnEurope's hangers-on decided that...

Eeestima!

Phil: Well after my last outpouring of ex-soviet bloc love, I dare not even speak about this one. This is staged exactly how you...

Eurovision 2009 – The draw for running order

First off, here it is ... 1 Lithuania 2 Israel 3 France 4 Sweden 5 Croatia 6 Portugal 7 Iceland 8 Greece 9 Armenia 10 Russia 11 Azerbaijan 12 Bosnia-Herzegovina 13 Moldova 14 Malta 15 Estonia 16 Denmark 17 Germany 18 Turkey 19...

Chiara has changed her backdrop

And instead of fishes it now shows stars and things... This is good - However, her wardrobe faux pas for today will be seen...

She’s back

Franko: Well what can I say? Chiara comes on and is Chiara. She does all the usual hand gestures and the Chiara wink. I...

Faraway in an English country garden

With our arena correspondents having wandered off to see other bits of Moscow, I'm left playing catch-up once again. Embed from Getty Images I'm not struck...

Oh flaming NL….

Visions in gold lame at all the parties, some say they turn up to the opening of an envelope ... except the envelope opening...

Bella – Rus

Franko: What I hear you cry. Where is Belgium? Alas they have suffered the same fate as us in the accreditation queue and are...

Slow….Venia?

Phil: Slovenia - Well we managed to get into the hall to see a couple of rehearsals of this and, unfortunately, I am still...

Let the parties commence

Now the opening of Euroclub is often a slightly underwhelming experience - a few bit of pineapple on sticks, and a hapless Israeli DJ...