Day 16 - Nei tuoi occhi l’universo è sempre più vicino – Udine

After the not so restful night, we packed our stuff and paid the camp site as soon as we could and headed off to find something else yet again. With help of the tourist office we found a bed somewhere that was affordable and once more we had to drive around quite a bit to find the street, even with help of the ever so helpful TomTom…

We checked in, left our bags and headed for a supermarket and the venue to start our long day of waiting. At around 11 we were at Villa Manin, the venue and soon after another girl we knew arrived and the day was spent eating chips, cold live fritte (not a good idea), brioche, drinking orange juice and milk (not together because that wouldn’t really go well), talking, sleeping and an attempt to play Uno… One banner was made but quickly thrown away again because we found it a tad too tacky (“Sali nel mio letto, saliiiiii!!”). Once it became clear we had to leave the field, an attempt was made to make a deal with the security which in the end didn’t work out (“è sempre la stessa storia!”) and only thanks to a Scandalo fan who hid in one of the portable bathrooms we had a spot in prima fila.

Once we had settled in our spots we had a bad beer from Fruili, some oranges and crackers while waiting for the gig to start. During the wait it already became clear what kind of audience was there (the so-called summer-sei nell’anima-suicidio d’amore-crowd) because when we tried to heat them up a little with the usual yells nobody really responded, with our second try about three people started clapping… They also looked a little weirdly as us because of our excitement, jumping, yelling, shirts, banner and Berbie but hey who cares?

During Suicidio d’Amore Gianna apparently definitely had understood what we were doing as she pointed as us singing “Si trovera la sera…”. Funny anecdote when we got out Berbie during America: she lost her lyrics and could only say “Bbbbbberbie!” laughing as usual.

As if it was planned it started raining at the end of the concert so at that point we were really glad we had found a bed for the night… Once back in our room we very happily decided to try out the free internet access we had but the joy didn’t last long when the electricity gave in due to the really bad thunderstorm that was going on outside. It was so bad even the windows opened by themselves.