Baltic Song Contest

When the otherwise staid Swedish audience leapt from their seats to dance to Stashka's fantastic song 'Chce kochac / I Want To Love' I had a feeling she would be the winner. She cleverly enlisted the assistance of some of the local schoolboys to add their rousing marching band drums to the song - inspired! If you haven't heard it - give it a listen on this link.

Strangely, second and third place were taken by Sweden who had two entries Alien (3rd) - and Caroline Wennergren (2nd). They were both excellent but our favourites were Miss 600 from the UK who received a somewhat frosty reaction from the audience (she followed Stashka) and Lithuania's 'The Ball and Chain' who had a very upbeat dance number. It's a shame England is not massively popular in Europe as we hoped Miss 600 would be in with a chance.

Here is link if you'd like to check out the line up.

The whole thing was being televised in Poland so we're hoping we appeared on Polish television - we were just underneath the swinging camera and smiled excitedly every time it pointed in our direction so we can only hope that fame will follow.

We had a great time in Karlshamn and would recommend the Baltic Festival if you're in the area in mid July.

Bandaloca - German drummers - fantastiche!!

We're currently in the middle of a nature reserve and I'm most surprised that we can get wee fee as we are near nothing except trees and a beach. Mr Fluffy has just returned from a walk where he forgot to spray on his 'Man-So-Hard' and is covered in midge bites. I elected to stay in and do the blog....hurrah for bite-free me.