SAMUEL Y JUANJO

Dinner in Soho... Osatsuma.
This is the night we met 2 gorgeous italian boys sitting on the next table.
This is the night we met a tall beautiful korean boy.
This is the night we bumped into Andres and his friends at Rupert Street!
This is the night we got served by the most handsome bartender at Lo.profile.
This is the night we admired the chinese go-go dancer at the Village.
This is a great night... let´s do it more often!

BEIJING 2008 - MARK FOSTER

click on title - click el título

Meet Mark Foster:

Mark carried the flag leading the British Olympic Team (TeamGB) at the opening ceremony in Beijing. Mark did actualy retire from swimming but he is back at 38 for one last chance to get an olympic medal. From here I would like to wish him luck as he is definetely an inspiration for lots of people. Good luck Mark!

The Olympic pool in Beijing: The Watercube.

www.olympics.org.uk/beijing2008

CHERNOBYL

the three chimneys

Javier, Angel, Juanjo and me... con el culo al aire!

Chernobyl es mi playa favorita en Barcelona ciudad. La arena está muy bien y no es nada pegajosa y el agua pura y cristalina! Es una playa nudista que antaño fué muy popular y que ahora al tener competencia con la Barceloneta y la playa de la Mar Bella ya no se llena tanto, con lo que es genial. Su nombre se debe a que en ella hay una central térmica bastante vieja que recuerda un poco a Chernobyl... Las tres chimeneas se pueden ver desde toda Barcelona!

Chernobyl is my favourite beach in Barcelona City. The sand is not sticky and the water crystal clear! It is a nudist beach and it used to be very popular, now everyone goes to la Barceloneta or la Mar Bella which is fine so it´s not so crowded! Its name comes from the ugly and old building behind which reminds of Chernobyl in Russia, where they had the massive nuclear scare. The three chimneys can be seen from all over Barcelona and also from the plane when you come to land!

Jordi también vino...

pics EUROGAMES

Eurogames Opening Ceremony rehearsals... Angel front row with white shorts.

Opening Ceremony presented by spanish celebrity Angel Llàcer.


Tango dance: all boy-girl couples become boy-boy and girl-girl under the flag. Look for Eurogames Barcelona 2008 in Youtube to see the whole dance.

Then it´s my turn pulling the volley court.

Jonathan Cañada, World Gymnast Champion, performing.

Eurogames flag.
Angel and Liván


Jordi, Angel and me.

Me with Liván and Angel.

gracias a Angel por las fotos!

EUROGAMES 2008

Barcelona, 24-27 July 2008

ver video de la vanguardia.es -sorry spanish only: video from lavanguardia.es:

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The Eurogames is a european sports championships organized by gay sports groups around Europe. It all started in Barcelona playing beach volley. Ladies and Gentlemen, after all the negative comments that I have read in the spanish press about the games, all I want to say is that this is only a fun sport event which gives opportunities to ALL young and old, gay and straight, to compete and have fun. It is not a professional sporting event, you will not see world records, all you will see is happy people having an opportunity to play and to win. A golden opportunity otherwise not possible because, let´s face it, me and my gay friends will never make it to Beijing, really.

If one supports the Barcelona Football club, will go to Barcelona´s clubs for drinks and fun, if one supports the Madrid Football club, will go to Madrid´s supporters clubs... it doesn´t mean they hate each other, it is only a preference because you need some sort of likelyhood-afinity-same interests when you join a group. So if gay people prefer to do sports or spend some of their time with some gay equals, that is ok. Is it not? Then what happened is that all these little groups from all over europe decided to organize a championship... why not? It sounds fun and you get to play with different people from other places instead of the same bunch day in day out. Eurogames, bring them on!

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Los Eurogames son una competición organizada por grupos deportivos gays de Europa. Todo empezó en Barcelona con el Volei playa. Primero jugamos entre nosotros, luego con los turistas, y luego nació la idea de montar un campeonato. He leido esta pasada semana comentarios muy despectivos y tristes en la prensa española. Todo lo que quisiera decir es que: el del barça se irá a la penya blaugrana a tomar el carajillo, el del Madrid a un club madridista, y esto no tiene nada de malo, todos buscamos una afinidad-nexo de unión-interés compartido al unirnos a un grupo. Así pues unos amigos gays nos juntamos para practicar deporte. Lo que pasó a partir de ahí es que se organizaron campeonatos. Pura diversión. Son campeonatos abiertos a TODOS, no hay marcas mínimas ni requerimientos ni de edad ni de orientación sexual, TODOS pueden participar y luchar por conseguir una medalla. Que la verdad, a Pekín ya no llegamos, pero a los Eurogames del año que viene en Copenhague,

OS RETO!

MARIA and DAVID´s WED

MARIA y DAVID se casan

MARIA and DAVID get married

en la Basílica del Tibidabo

Incredible view from the church on the Tibidabo Mountain.

the boys.... Carles, me and Wayne, and Arantxa.

and the girls... Emma, Gemma and Valérie...

Viva la madre de la novia!!

mi cumple/my birthday

la DOLORS de la PENYA

la Dolors i jo als billars de la penya.

Dolors, ets la millor. T´estimem!!

Dolors is my very good friend who owns el bar la penya in Igualada...

Igualada is a city next to my small hometown: Vilanova del Cami.

Don´t even try to google earth it... it´s not there!

More about it soon... here just a momentum pics of our night out in Igualada.

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GONE AGAIN

Friends/Amigos

Me he ido de nuevo a España, así que me costará más pero enseguida os doy noticias.

Gone to Spain again so bear with me and I´ll give you updates asap!

bye bye work!

DAVID MECA

David Meca, world champion spanish swimmer, crossed the Gibraltar Strait 3 times non-stop last weekend in an epic that took 14 hours and 5 mins.

Meca successfully swam the English Channel on 10 Aug 2004 in a time of 7 h 46 mins and again on 29 Aug 2005 in a time of 7 h 22 mins. He has swum from the spanish coast to Ibiza, he has swum between the canary Islands, he has swum the Gualdalquivir River up stream for more than 100km... He is incredible!!

dedicado a Isabel

NADAL!

click on the title to watch the final moment of one of the best tennis games in Wimbledon!

clica el títol per veure les imatges del moment final d´un dels millors partits de tenis de Wimbledon!

Rafael Nadal - Wimbledon Champion 2008

LONDON GAY PRIDE

Trafalgar Square

Mark and Simon

Isa, Alvaro and Jordi.

more pics: http://adventuresofagayboy.blogspot.com/

WALK

today I went for a walk.





went for a lovely walk in the countryside around where I live... lovely houses, beatiful forests, peaceful lakes and stunning green grass... went to Virgina Water Lake and then on to Windsor. Below is when I reached the top of Snow Hill at the end of The Long Walk, which is a straight line to the main entrance to the Windsor Castle just about three miles long! I will have to go back and take better pictures... I walked approx 12 miles!!!