And we came to Mallorca... to a Puerto Portals that had an indescribable atmosphere... José and Ñako Eraso They were all organized to the millimeter... it looked like Miami, What quality, what glamour! and the fabulous climate in a beautiful month of April that was lived in the Balearic Islands that far from 1990.

All the ladies... including mine... were on the parrot, when Stephano Casiraghi arrived... they wonder. Will your wife be, Carolina from Monaco?... well they asked him and the numerous accredited media.

The good of José Eraso gave me for my team, the communication team, a small building at the foot of the docks of Portals, which was white as the T-shirt of the Real Madridto which he sponsored the company owned by this majestic marine: Teka.

José Luis Suevos was very concerned that everything would go as scheduled... and the confirmation of the 18 helicopters he had hired for the TV images, having to sign with companies from La Rioja and the Basque Country... if I have not been wrong 18... Whatever the Milmi would have saved, if there were drones of that one!

The reason for such spending, is that the boats participating in the World Cup reached 90 knots and clear to see who was the handsome one who could shoot them!... the solution the helicopters that charged about 1000 euros of today's per hour of flight(excluding the revaluation of these 30 years)... a goose paste that I could only pay, a billionaire like the Milmi... as the colleagues of the Organization said in a horny way, who already knew the pharol of the Asian businessman that there was "won the Rallye de Monte-Carlo and had released to the media in Madrid on the eve."

And the official training day came, in which the press office chief of the Casiraghi press approached shortly after lunch... that was Carlos Santana, Jan's brother!I asked him. What time can we get your little man?... and Carlos warned me... "in two hours, but please don't come to the private press conference, no one from the heart magazines... but Stephano is leaving."

Le I lied like a cunt,confirming with No problem, they'll all be sports journalists!. I called immediately to "my commitments" which were the sponsor's or "Drakkar Noir" of the L'Oreal Group... at 6.30 we are with Stephano... please meet in an hour and a half at the Press Office to establish the strategy among all. "

And at six in the afternoon were the main, among those who were Perico Sardina and as not Parrado (Javier Gandara called him "Parradio"). By the way Sardina posted a color page on MARCA that day, with a huge photo of a boat identified with "Drakkar Noir"which is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in terms of infographic assembly in a newspaper, over nautical.

I address the group and tell them, following Santana's instructions, that the Italian doesn't want the heart press, that they don't ask her personal questions about Carolina... if she won't leave. Besides, Marit Larsson was from Hello, so we'd say it was from a sports radio station.

At 1815 I went to the Portals Control Tower where Santana was waiting for me, and we both went to the "Gancia dei Gancia" where Casiraghi was finalizing details...

The three of us together started a tour of the main Portals walk... there were hundreds and hundreds of people, or perhaps a few thousand; the ones that flank our 500-meter walk to the Press Office.

We all sat down and Stephano addressed me: Can you introduce me to the present?... and I proceeded to do it one by one... when I got to Marit, I told Mrs. Larsson of the News Sports Agency... and the Italian put a surprise face to each other and a distrust... but they just started the questions.

The journalist from "Hello" that by the way she was so nervous that she had bought a new dress. And he had the label hanging from his elbow (so everyone present saw it)... when he shook his hand to the husband of Carolina of Monaco!He was the first to ask something sports... but then he got away with a personal question to Casiraghi about his wife... The reaction was sharp, I know who you are, it's from Hello!.. you saw for me and screaming, you have deceived me, we are done!... and you went mad.

The behavior of Milmi and Parrado, as well as that of the entire team to support our journalists, was received with affection and thanks by the information professionals... who were the most important thing in the end. One of the witnesses to this story had been Nicolas Terry, then from Puerto Sherry staff, who was negotiating to hold an Offshore World Cup test in Cadiz Bay from the gun.

After the press conference, there was a fantastic reception at Portals... José Eraso had set it up as always as a film... Eggs & Parrado ran with all the expenses. The most exquisite, like my dear friend Coly, were even at a private party in Flanigan that had been organized in honor of Casiraghi... but to the curators of the Press Office, we had to work...

The next day the test. Before we start, one of the efficient and glamorousMonagesque secretaries who helped us as employees of Mauro Ravenna of Monaco Yacht Club, called me through the intercom to my office: They want a few gentlemen of Vigo to receive them.... and I asked them who they were: they are from the Nautico de Vigo, including the president who is José María Massó and the comandoro Ramón Ojea... no problem that they pass, but You know I'm the director of the event?... no idea, I don't think they know, otherwise they would have asked for you...

The face that Massó and Ojea put on when I went out to meet them... I won't forget it in my life!... very surprised, they said to me: is that we want to organize this in Vigo and we have come to request it officially... I introduced them to Ravenna and we all went together on a boat to see the exit... on their part Milmi, Parrado and Coly... they embarked on a superluxury yacht that Suevos had charted... a yacht to the Milmi.

Eggs, Parry or Parradio, the Erasus, Cory and Sardina kept laughWhen I told them the face of Vigo's Nautical when I was in the head office in Portals... You've got them!, said Milmi with a lot of wits... They'll tell everyone in Vigo... hahaha!

By the way, at the end of the Galician city was unable to take up the high budget of organization and everything was left in an attempt... the Ria de Vigo would have been an incomparable framework, but the Nautico was not for parties... nor were the municipal regators, then, not for the task of betting on an event of this magnitude.

After the competition that was spectacular with 18 boats at 80 knots, Don Juan Carlos President Closing Ceremonyto a lot of public... very much Formula 1. By the way, it would be the last test that Casiraghi would complete in his life, as the Italian pilot died at a short time at the time, a remarkable race of Monaco, by turning to 90 knots, his "Gancia dei Gancia."

It was certainly a special week, in which José Luis Suevos was in his salsa and I never observed him so in his post of "entrepreneur", so super professional... except in the"Mindanao show"who by the way would come to the ears of the Royal Family... who even in private laughed at the exit of the Asturian...

That's right, with the well-known monumental cabaret of the malogrado José Hernández Eraso, a professional like the cup of a pine, and a close friend, with whom he had a lot of friendship since we were students of the Maristas College of the Pilar de Vigo.

To the Milmi everyone congratulated him because it was not for less, including Don Juan Carlos... the bad thing for his company, is that the competition despite his enormous brilliance and glamour, did not even manage to cover expenses... and that is, Milmi and Pedro Pablo Parrado fulfilled all of those who worked in the organizational tasks, and even in my case they gave me an important check for my and my wife's fees, of those of which we must celebrate with a bottle of Cordón Rouge... which I do not, Even though some "faggot" asked me to do it via was, it's where Vigo's place gave it to me.... the secret of the case.

And back to Galicia... we were waiting for the most important cruise race of the Spanish spring, the General Optical Regattathat would give us many surprises: Lago pigeon on board the "Lada" with Toño Gorostegui and Pedro Campos... the visit to Baiona de Jacques Faroux the legendary designer... "Up & Down" and "Boulevard Rosa"... the Infanta Cristina as patron of the "Don Cotton"... among many other news that we will count next Friday in which it will be the ninth delivery.

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