Miss koversade 2013

[saunaguy]

stevin, where are you. Please make us happy. .

[stevin6]

Here i start with the pics and story of the 2013 Koversada Fest.
I was just comming this weekend back from my 2 weeks holiday there and wasn't able to post earlier pics.
First of all, i have to say that it's not easy to get at Koversada by public transport. I had a "EuroNight" train from Munich to Ljublana, but before the train left Munich we had already more then 15 minutes delay and arriving at Ljublana we had a delay of 35-40 minutes, so i missed my connection to Hrpelje-Kozina (change to small train on same platform) and Pula (from where a bus to Vrsar/Koversada goes). As there is only one direct connection each day to and from Pula/Istrië (the part of Croatia where Koversada is) i could have a problem. The woman of the Slovanian railway company just said to me, at about 06.45hr in the morning, that i wouldn't get there the same day.
But not for me!!! I did some homework before and knew there is a small local train riding during the day between Pula and Buzet (near the border in the north) and there are more trains going to Hrpelje-Kozina. So i took a train to Hrpelje-Kozina, a taxi to Buzet railway station (in the middle of nowhere somewhere in the mountains, about 5 km from the town of Buzet), the local small train from Buzet to Pula, went out in Kanfanar (the nearest train station to Koversada) and took a taxi to Koversada. So in finally got there!!!!
And already on the sunday i arrived i get the flyer of the Koversada 2013 fest:

[stevin6]

As you can see on the flyer, there were activities all day long and for everyone. To be sure i got a good place i went from my place to the festival area at about 18.00hrs local time. As i was early it was still quite and so i had a good spot. In the time i had to wait i did have some food and later on some other people joined the table where i sat. Opposide of me there sat a German man who brought a big bottle of good red wine, so i had nice companion. Due to the red wine and the fact that some parts/appareances only took in seconds/less then a minute(s) some pics unfortunately came out a bit blurry. Before and between the appearances of the contestants there was a nice live coverband "Exlcusive" and there were some appearances by the animation teams of Koversada.
First you see how the stage was with the live band and the nice sun going under at the beach side. The temparature was still very warm (i guess 25-30+ degrees around 21.00hrs) and some people had a swim before joining the fest.

[stevin6]

Now you see the presentation of the whole event, first introducing also the live band and then introducing the contestants and the jury which contained a man/guy from Croatia, Italy, Austria, Germany and the Netherlands.
Also you see the first appareance of the animation team.

[rudolfh]

Canīt wait for more Stevin. You are teasing us hardly :-)

[stevin6]

Now we get to the first comming up, the first line up of the contestants. I think there were only 13 contestants as one contestant whitdraw during the contest.

[stevin6]

The contestants did also a first presentation. The first pic is of contestant nr.7 which deserved in my opinion also a price.

[tyerbel85]

Some great first photos of the contest!

[stevin6]

More of this round.....

[tyerbel85]

fingers crossed for number 10