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LONELY PLANET COMPETITION ENTRY NUMBER 3

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This is from Andreas Vienna in Austria.

Well the anticipation for my LARA FABIAN concert – which I booked already back in November 2015 – for June 3rd, 2016 was badly damaged with all the bad news about terror from Paris, then riots, then strikes, etc. Just 2 days before the concert the air controllers announces a strike over the weekend so I cancelled my hotel. Only the next day at 8:30 I heard that this was postponed and so I booked a hotel again and flew early morning to Paris.

At that moment I did not even realised about the floods of the Seine, the main river that runs throw the city of PARIS.

Luckily I arrived safe, luckily I was able to get to the city with the airport-bus and luckily no strike at the metro.

So I was able to enjoy the LARA FABIAN concert in full at the sold out venue Palais des Congress. She sang nearly the complete track list from her new album MA VIE DANS LA TIENNE and also some of her greatest hits from the last 20 years like JE T’AIME, I WILL LOVE AGAIN, IMMORTELLE and J’Y CROIS ENCORE. The big surprise of the event was a medley of songs from the Swedish supergroup ABBA including Dancing Queen, Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! a man after midnight and The Winner Takes It All.

The next day I had a long walk from Notre Dame till the Eiffel tower along the Seine to see the damage the flood has caused. Several bridges were half way hidden by water and some even closed. That led me again to ABBA, one of their songs is called OUR LAST SUMMER with lines like “walk along the Seine, round the Notre Dame … we sat down in the grass by the Eiffel Tower”. Very funny 🙂

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LONELY PLANET COMPETITION ENTRY NUMBER 2

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Our second entry comes from Armin Duttle from Switzerland.
The visit of the Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev  Ukraine happened at the end of my holiday in the Ukraine.
Because I have a penfriend friend in Ukraine, I thought it would be nice to combine a visit to him and Eurovision,
I got tickets for the Friday evening dress rehearsal for both of us (I bought the tickets from a colleague of my
penfriend).The tickets for the finale were too expensive, so we had to settle for the Friday night show.
My penfriend does not live in Kievm so one day before the Friday show, we came to Kiev. Of course we visited the place around the arena,
where the ESC would happen. There was so many flags and posters everywhere to see in the streets of the center of the city, especially around the ( now famous ) Maiden square.
The dress rehearsal show was  great and happened without problems. The real highlight of the evening was the appearance  of the Klitschko brothers!
We stayed near the venue and were able to walk to the flat after the show.
It was in the flat there we watched the next night the final. Kyiv_Palace_of_Sports
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POINTS FOR GOOD LUCK VIDEOS

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We are now ready to give the points towards the 2017 ticket list for those members/fans who did good luck videos/

There were 10 points per video on offer. This reflects just the points for the physical videos. Points for Marcus, Jason, Luc and Ronny who were involved in the production, will be published later.

If you feel there is a mistake with your points or someone has been left one, please contact us

Luc Spencer-Gardner (Iceland, Montenegro, Romania, Macedonia, Belgium) = 50 points
Beth Hackney (Iceland, Greece, Australia, Italy, Spain) = 50 points
Lukman Uleng (Estonia, Norway, Germany) = 30 points
Kyle Woods (Estonia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia) = 40 points
Ronny Addamo (Cyprus, Netherlands, Belarus, Macedonia, Albania) = 50 points
Her Luis Alvarado Lopez (Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine) = 30 points
Osmar Valdebenito (Russia) = 10 points
Sevket Yigit (Armenia, San Marino) = 20 points
Steve Humpfreys (Hungary) = 10 points
Alexandru Badea (Moldova) = 10 points
Aaron Paraiso(Finland, Bulgaria) = 20 points
Chris Zeiher (Lithuania) = 10 points
Alper Yurtseven (Azerbaijan) = 10 points
Fabiana Silva (Malta) = 10 points
Dennis Flores (Latvia) = 10 points
Richard Isaac (Israel) = 10 points
Alan Tubery (Switzerland, France) = 20 points
Marcus Davey (Australia) = 10 points
Edward Okulicz (Slovenia) = 10 points
Sadie Trent (Ireland, Bulgaria, Ukraine) = 30 points
Vane Acevski (Macedonia) = 10 points
William Fedor (Ukraine) = 10 points
Luis Omar Chong (Denmark) = 10 points
Andrew Wortham (Georgia) = 10 points
Michele Acott United Kingdom, Sweden) = 20 points
Kevin Fansler (Sweden) = 10 points
Michaela Sowden (Poland, Austria, Czech republic) = 30 points
Eloise Sowden (Poland, Austria, Czech republic) = 30 points
Nick Sowden (Poland, Austria, Czech republic) = 30 points
James Sowden (Poland, Austria, Czech republic) = 30 points

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UKRAINE – LONELY PLANET ENTRY NUMBER 1

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We have received the first entry to our lonely planet competition – from SOPHIE LLOYD
Stockholm 2016 was my first time to Eurovision and I had such a great weekend. I traveled with my boyfriend Harry and my friends Abi and Sam. We went to the jury final on the Friday night and although that was clearly the main highlight, one of the most memorable times was on the Friday afternoon when we had just arrived and went to meet our friends Beth and Stuart for a drink. They live in Hong Kong so we hadn’t seen them for a while and they were perched out on a pontoon on the water with a whole group of people drinking rose and sitting in the sun. Stockholm looked so beautiful. Everyone we met was also going to Eurovision and we were all so excited and looking forward to the show. It really showed the best of Eurovision – bringing people together from all around the world and the chance to catch up with old friends and make new ones!
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