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SWITZERLAND – Zoe Me – Voyage
It’s pretty much been nothing but voyage for me since I arrived at this year’s OnEurope Digs, just over the border in affordable France a week ago. Our friends at All Out Eurovision and Eurovision Ireland have been doing tourism on hard mode with me on board, including a modestly sensible day trip to Colmar and Strasbourg, an important yet sensible pilgrimage to the Palais d’Expositions in Lausanne to listen to Birthe Kjaer through a tinny phone speaker, an entirely sensible day trip to Basel and a not very sensible at all day trip to Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, Second Switzerland, Second Germany, Third Switzerland and finally back to France in time for supper. Yesterday we went to the supermarket. I’m not entirely sure where I am today.
Anyway, host nations face an eternal conundrum at this contest. You’re looking to guarantee not winning again (it’s really not polite to your guests, looking at you here Ireland, and it also gets expensive), while also making sure your presenters don’t have to say “I’m so sorry, you received no points” to your performer at the denouement (which really puts a terrible damper on proceedings). How do you do that?
Well, how about you put Voila and Growing Up Is Getting Old in a blender and produce a delightful, fragile, ephemeral little confection that’ll find a reasonable amount of respect from the juries and probably enough televotes to do alright? What could possibly go wrong? It could have ended up being randomly allocated draw slot number 1 or something, which would have been suboptimal, but 19 is spot on. Otherwise, they’ve found the perfect act of hostly politeness and should – most likely will – get a perfectly polite result.
There’s going to be plenty worse than this in the Saturday show, I’m certain.
Nick’s score: 8