I’m sitting in the lounge at Edinburgh Airport, ready to board another flight to adventure. This time it’s in Yerevan, which I think will be as far east as I have ever been (or at least it will be for the next six months).<\/p>\n
Armenia is hosting the ninth Junior Eurovision Song Contest<\/a>, and I’m joining Sharleen Wright and Steven Newby to cover the contest for ESC Insight<\/a>. It’s not as popular with the Eurovision sites as the main Contest, but the camaraderie and sprit will probably mean that we all pitch in and help out on each other’s websites, including ESCxtra<\/a> and Radio International<\/a> – I know that I’m hoping to get some episodes of Juke Box Jury and Nul Points recorded to air over Christmas, as well as a the daily backstage chat shows for the podcast.<\/p>\n As well as ESC Insight<\/a>, you can follow all the news on ESC Buzz<\/a>, the Eurovision news portal the community helped to put together over the summer.<\/p>\n Finally for now, I want to say a big thank you<\/em> to BMI, who are supporting the coverage of this year’s Junior Eurovision with some flights to Yerevan<\/a> (and you can like them on Facebook<\/a>). Without them I don’t think I’d be looking at an almost six hour flight across Europe to the Caucuses.<\/p>\n And now, on with the music!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m sitting in the lounge at Edinburgh Airport, ready to board another flight to adventure. This time it’s in Yerevan, which I think will be as far east as I have ever been (or at least it will be for the next six months). Armenia is hosting the ninth Junior Eurovision Song Contest, and I’m joining Sharleen Wright and Steven Newby to cover the contest for ESC Insight. It’s not as popular with the Eurovision sites as the main Contest, but the camaraderie and sprit will probably mean that we all pitch in and help out on each other’s websites,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[392,13],"tags":[3412,532,1475],"class_list":["post-5840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurovision-multimedia","category-links-to-my-articles","tag-bmi","tag-jesc","tag-junior-eurovision","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1wc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}