The First Award Ceremony

My delegate's badge, sportingly modeled by Keanu Reeves

Last night was the first of the galas and award ceremonies. We all got suited and booted and headed off to watch the show, held in the main Festival Hall.

The compere, who had obviously modeled himself on Nicolas Parsons, introduced some outstanding international work from around the world. After lots of backslapping, self gratification and arse licking the awards were over, so we headed off to the beach for the after party, where the majority of people managed to get blind drunk, even at 10 euros each for a small beer.

Cannes as you can imagine is outrageously expensive. The shortest journey in a taxi will leave you 15 euros short, and a small bottle of Evian from the hamburger caravan is nearly 2 quid!