We Do Adventure

Those familiar with the sort of Bible stories that get told to children will know about Jonah. He's the guy who was running from God, only to become the cause of a big storm necessitating his being dispatched to the depths only to spend a long weekend in a large fish. If anyone was ever a jinx on a journey he was it. In a tenuously connected kind of way I feel I was a jinx on Saturday night's attempt to watch the Eurovision final. As regular readers will have noted, I wasn't expecting to get the chance to take in this annual celebration of European entertainment. I therefore was not particularly disappointed when most of the evening's viewing looked like the image above. Whether this was the fault of the Croatian TV channel carrying the event, some technical issue further down the line or the fact I was present I don't know. What I did learn is that cynicism about the event is more widespread than I'd realised. Conversation on the evening revolve...

This morning we walked into Klub and were greeted by the words ‘I saw you on TV last night!’ We did not make so much of a ‘walk on’ appearance as a ‘walk by’ one. Yesterday morning we visited OKC Abrašević , a youth cultural centre in Mostar. During part of our tour around we saw the director of their media centre standing in front of a camera. It seems that camera was rolling as we scurried across behind him. And so we graced TV screens around the Mostar area, for it was part of a news broadcast on the local channel, for the first time. Who knows if and when we’ll make a return appearance. We could speculate on what circumstances but previous experience indicates it’s like to occur spontaneously and unexpectedly. But perhaps next time we will actually appear and not just be walking across the back of the shot!