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San Marino

The Sammarinese entry is chosen by SMRTV. San Marino first took part in 2008 and has yet to trouble the winners.

San Mari-NO

A sobering thought, the two singers for San Marino were all born after I started my day job… Sobering indeed, in fact I’ll never...

San Marino, guilty pleasure

Despite lapsing into ‘Eurovision cliche number 4382: lighting candles’ within the first 40 seconds San Marino is my guilty pleasure this year. They fed...

Terminal three flight on time

Good morning Europe! Battling through the London morning rush hour to meet That Monty at Heathrow terminal three (flight’s on time) though perhaps That Monty...

San Marino – It is the Siegel entry

Well Ralph, you’ve done it again. You’ve managed to find two songs from your back pocket, sellotape them together and let loose two naive...

My little San Marino

Imagine, if you will, an ant standing next to an elephant, going “DUUHHH DUHHH DUUUHHHH MILLION VOIIIIICES. DUH DUHHHH DUHHH WON’T BE LOOOOONELY ANYMORE”...

San Marino, maybe baby

Valentina is recreating Botticelli's Birth of Venus by singing in a pearly white dress in front of a fabric clam shell. Her flame hair...

Tuesday’s child is full of grace – did you miss me...

Well since everyone else had Thursday off, I did too. Plus I spent all yesterday afternoon shut up with librarians and that's never good...

It’s Saturgay, I’m freezing my tats off…

Good morning Europe, god moron Malmo! And good morning hangover! Not an all singing, all dancing one with pyros but a gentle one that...

Latvia, San Marino and Macedonia, our first triptych of the day

And we're off! Or Here We Go as they say in Latvian. We just managed to catch the final run through of PeR still...

San Marino – Gearbox problems

Now, I feel I must explain this - As we all know, creepy uncle Ralph has sellotaped two of his old songs together by...