Dave King’s Cannes Diary: Day Three

Dave King, ECD, Innocean Worldwide is Australia’s representative on the Direct Lions jury. King, along with most of the Australian and NZ jurors, is reporting exclusively for CB.

Day 3. It was bucketing down today. So we hunkered up in the Station Pub across the road from the station watching Wales try and defend their way into the next round. Having won the last two rugby world cups has made me care a lot less about the rare All Blacks loss, but watching Joe from the Promo jury’s pain at Wales’ last second loss did bring back memories of Eales then Kefu breaking our hearts a decade back.

Before that we had a short day of judging, around 120 pieces. Mobile was one of the categories and the work was good. Almost everything involves the mobile so the category was wide and diverse, but it highlighted how clever some people are. Again a reasonable sprinkling of pieces from our part of the world that was well received.

After the football and after the rain cleared we decided to train back to our base in Juan Le Pins. Instead of over 45 minutes on the bus the train took us back in ten minutes. But as Paul from the Promo jury didn’t read the timetable properly, we didn’t stop  at Juan Le Pins, but carried on to Antibes. That journey took a mere 10 minutes but meant we had a 40 minute walk back to our hotel. Fortunately we found The Australian Bar. That didn’t sell Australian beer. So it was a win win. Until tomorrow.