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I saw a bit of the semi-final again this year, so I thought I'd start a thread to see who's planning to watch Eurovision on Saturday

I've got my and ready, and I'm looking forward to it

Good to see Conchita Wurst doing presenting duties A87830490 (shameless plug )

I did not know it was on thanks for the reminder

My family and I will be in Pisa Italy that night. If the hotel TV is OK we'll be watching the Eurovision.

Yes of course, it's our turn to host and I will be cooking an Austrian menu (sort of). We usually eat the food of the host country, apart from the year I got fed up of it never being Italy and cooked lasagne regardless.

Mol

It will NEVER be Italy!

Yep. Watching, and intrigued by the Finnish entry PKN who didn't make the final. Said to have learning difficulties, but when I heard the bass player interviewed on radio the other day, he seemed to have had no difficulty in learning English.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePhjs-3q068

Admittedly, I wasn't about to rush down to the record shop to buy it.

PP.

Well, before last year I would probably have said it would NEVER be Austria. You just never know in the whacky world of Eurovision. It does add an extra frisson of excitement to the voting, knowing that the cuisine of the winning country will provide our menu next year. As soon as one country goes into the lead we start racking our brains for possible menu items. I spent most of the voting last year thinking of Sachertorte.

Ideally I'd like the UK to win, of course. Easy catering and only the oldest of our children was born the last time it happened.

Second favourite has to be Italy, because lasagne and tiramasu are just so yummy.

If neither of those ... not sure. Turkey perhaps. That would give us kebabs, and there's bound to be some sort of delicious spicy dessert. Plus of course Turkish delight. Mmmm ...

Mol

Baklava is a very popular Turkish dessert.

I'm in!

I don;t watch the semis, but I do enjoy the final. Am preparing snacks as we speak!

Dunno about food, but there will certainly be drink involved here. Do the Austrians do beer?

I have a football match to go to first, then apparently we have to stay out because #1 thought we'd be out all night so we're going to see Mad Max later instead of eurovision. I'll miss drunkenly tweeting random stuff to a million strangers

Here we go. Italian pizza, Czech beer, I'm all Euro-ed up

Yep - I had Italian pasta and I've got Scandinavian cider so I'm Euroed up too

Those balls are pretty funky!

yeah!

Cute little Austrian sailors ...

hold on, isn't Austria land-locked?

I didn't aee where the wheelchair user went - nice lot of stairs, there...

Ah, she made it on stage

Oh have we started?

I wonder what's playing on her iPod?