Widow´s comedy club contest
The cross dressed widows representing various neigbouring villages as"village beautyqueens" ended on stage in Olon´s square having to cat walk, dance and answer questions and the one who made the audience laugh the most would win. Mostanswerswere filthyofcourse! Even the bits we didn´t understand were hilarious, with their exaggerated feminine movements and high pitched shrieks and fake bitch fights etc. One of them happened to be our guide from earlier on, and he (she) singled us out in the audience calling us "Nick and Giff from Australia".We corrected him (her) and the whole village was staring at us. Of course Olon won the contest.
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