In case you’ve ever been on any sort of skate journey with a gaggle of individuals you don’t know particularly effectively, you’ll be acquainted with the delirium-induced in-jokes that current themselves. These could take the type of repetition from a viral Youtube clip, a line from a tune, or verbatim quotes from folks on the journey. Usually, there are multiple of those ridiculous phrases swirling round and coming into the lexicon, consistently morphing and increasing, turning into a sort of language that solely the folks current can perceive, solely to be extinguished the second the group disperses on to their separate journeys residence.
Throughout my first go to to Fažana again in 2016, the prevailing repetitive joke, originating within the still-a-little-drunk-from-the-night-before-induced insanity of a seaside breakfast, was the idea of fairly actually something being a museum. The ocean? That’s the water museum. The highway? The automobile museum. The restaurant that offered 5 totally different gnocchi dishes? Nicely, that’s the gnocchi museum in fact. This ‘joke’, as you possibly can think about, may be expanded in a limitless variety of methods, nevertheless humorous or unfunny in hindsight. “So, ought to all of us meet at 6pm, simply outdoors the drugs museum?”
What units Vladimir Movie Pageant aside from fairly actually every other skate occasion I’ve ever attended, is that the scale of the village and the restricted variety of venues on the organisers’ disposal implies that there are a lot of sorts of repetition. That is on no account a adverse – in reality, repetition is a key a part of the expertise. Each venue, each avenue and each nook has a narrative from a earlier yr. These tales, as a substitute of dying or being forgotten, flourish from one yr to the following to the purpose that they’ve nearly turn out to be a type of mythology.
You see that boat? Bare Dave backflipped off that into the water museum.
Do you keep in mind the enormous pizza museum in Pula? We went final yr, however that they had stopped making large pizzas. Now they simply make common sized ones, so Connor ordered two, and considered one of them was lined in lemons.
Did you hear about these English guys who crashed one of many golf buggies and tried to bury the windshield in a gap they dug with their naked arms to keep away from a nice? What the fuck had been they considering?
Throughout my eighth go to to Fažana – and this unimaginable movie pageant – it dawned on me that I used to be considered one of solely two folks in attendance, who had been additionally current at that breakfast again in 2016. However but, extremely, by nothing however oral custom, the gnocchi museum lives on, though the restaurant stopped promoting gnocchi about six years in the past. This yr, it had already closed for the season earlier than the pageant even started. However as luck would have it, I had a photograph exhibition proper outdoors.
“The place is it?”, I used to be requested a number of occasions. “Simply outdoors the gnocchi muesum”, I’d reply, which might be met with a figuring out nod. Not as soon as was I requested for extra detailed instructions.