BARCELONA PRIDE 27-28JUN

Fantastic crowd in a wonderful setting!

4 solteros! - "all the single ladies"

with Vicens and James... VICENS happy birthday!!! 07-july

...and I am thinking... gym?

with the english reps, Jamie and Alistair on the right.

HOME (Trailer)

you can watch the whole movie on youtube.recommended.

SUMMER ENDS HERE

NOT!
Not quite, still all summer ahead of us, only that I am now back to the UK after the trip to Rio and Barcelona...

:o(

SUMMER STARTS HERE!

british fry up courtesy of ...myself

(Julian can´t wait... esa mano!)

No ink at home so had to take a pic of the places to visit in.... RIO!!!

Jordi arrived last night from Barcelona, and after a 2 hour wait till I was done with work we drove home... sorry Jordi!

And after a 3 hour sleep, back to the Terminal to meet Julian just landed from KL via Singapur!

So we will set for RIO this afternoon.

5 days and then it is back to Spain... for 2 weeks plus plus...

not sure if I will be able to blog much but I will try for internet hot spots so I can put updates and pics!

...a follar!!!!

xx

DAVID & ALI

Today Soho again... met David and Ali who are crossed with me and insist I go to visit them in Dubai asap!

Well with all the doom and gloom I wish I could get a job in Dubai somewhere and go and live there for a year or so?

We had a little too much to drink with an adonis greek friend of them whose name I´ve forgotten. I´ll blame it to Compton´s 2x1 offer on mondays!

Fabio at Barcode was nice and he made sure our glasses weren´t empty...

Well I regret it now. Home alone, it´s 2:30 and I am working at 10am!

I´m a bad boy, really bad.

IRAN AIR

I never knew Iran Air wanted to buy Concorde!

GONE ALL TECH: WIDGETS, FLIGHTTRACKER AND THE JAPANESE MAGLEV

Well I have been very tech this past two days:

WIDGETS: go to http://widgets.yahoo.com and discover the world of widgets... well apparently these have existed for a while but I have only just come accross them! my favourites are facebook, world clock, the weather and my to-do calendar! They are shown on the screen permanently so you don´t have to open a window and sign in or anything... they are always there, on your desktop. I love them!

FLIGHT TRACKER: http://www.flightstats.co.uk allows you to track flights. So you enter the flight number and date and it will bring up all the information about times and a map showing where the flight is at that moment... now it doesn´t seem to work very well for long haul flights specially out of the US but I am impressed!

THE JAPANESE MAGLEV is a prototype magnetic train that reaches more than 580km/h speeds... that is very fast (considering planes fly at an average 800-900 km/h!)

check it out:

DAY OFF IN LONDON

So, after so much work work work I can´t complain I have also had my fair share of time off. I have gone up to Soho and I am gutted to think that I should really get out more. I haven´t been up to town lately and I truly forgot what London is all about.

London is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, there is a vast variety of people that makes this city unique. I am amazed also at the lots of people who actually dress up to walk around town. Everybody is minding their own business, beautiful people, different people, streets are buzzing, pubs are full from 3.30pm, and especially if its a sunny day -we have some of those- the pub is empty and everyone is drinking outside!

My time in London today was very enjoyable and in very good company, albeit I never got the stolen kiss I was hoping for. But I saw people I hadn´t seen in a long while, I bumped into Shaun and Pepe, I saw Jone and Juanvi, and had a bite to eat with Matt at a new Madeiran restaurant we´ve just discovered! Matt gave me some buscuits he got for me in Brussels and gaiety´s from Australia, I have had tea at Matt´s too, his place is fabulous, right in the middle of Vauxhall and it made me feel bad that I am living outside London...

And I don´t know if its normal, but it happened to me that, when at Matt´s, I felt totally clueless and ignorant to many things art, music and modern technology... He played beautiful songs by Cesaria Evora, a famous singer from the Cape Verde Islands. This from iTunes in his mac laptop wireless attached to an airrouter something so the music comes through the hifi system loudspeakers...(How?) and all whilst he tells me how he brought his aboriginal art paintings on the walls all the way from Australia. I feel bad.

good night everyone!

CHICKEN A LA CARTE

View this movie at cultureunplugged.com

I just watched this video and it really makes you realize how selfish we are and how many times we forget about the reality of millions of people in this planet.

We are caught up in our own little realities and forget how lucky we are.

emailed by Mau from the USA.

saludos Mau!

Watch the video...

if you click on the link you´ll see it better.

POSTCARD FROM EGYPT

Pues han vuelto todos alucinando de Egipto... yo siempre me espero para poder ir con alguien especial, pero esperando esperando, a ver si las pirámides se van a caer antes de que pueda ir!

Samuel y Juanjo, Jordi y Miguel, Juan y Javi, Caty y Angel. falto yo!

I was meant to join my friends on a trip to Egypt, but work work work couldn´t do it. They have had a lovely time and I can´t wait to go there! I should have gone but there´s so much going on!

Angel y Juan!

EYES

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIVINA DE LA MUERTE!

ALL THE MEN IN ENGLAND ARE WAITING FOR YOU TO CELEBRATE YOUR BIRTHDAY!

COME BACK SOON!

DINNER IN STAINES

Alistair and Jamie came to pick me up and went out on a lovely hot evening down the river in Staines for a lovely meal... is not the Riviera but pas mal! We must enjoy it while we can. Summer in the UK is unpredictably potentially very short!

ps. nice car Jamie! wow!

AF447

CUMPLE JORDI

Felicitats nen! Quants? 32? Mare de Déu com passa el temps! Sembla que era ahir que érem al Satanassa, i que m´esperaves hores i hores a baix a Rocafort a que baixés per anar-nos-en de farra amb el teu Golf blanc, i que anàvem al Punto, i a la Martins, i que estàvem solters desesperats buscant nòvio, i que estàvem els dos feliçment aparellats, i que anàrem a Miami, i a Fort Lauderdale, i a Nova York i Provincetown, i més aprop a Salvador de Bahía i Los Angeles i Malàsia i Bali. I que venia al pis del Paralel, i al del costat del Mercat de Sant Antoni, i al del carrer Borrell, i ara a Travessera, i tants festivals d´Eurovisió, i Sant Joans i Festes de cap d´any...

Per molts anys!
i que duri...


HAPPY BIRTHDAY JORDI!

EYES

I don´t really know the guy... :o(
but what beautiful eyes!

Ni idea qui es, però mare de Deu quins ulls!

GOOGLE MAPS...

Amazing google maps.... so high tech in the London area -and probably many big cities- that look my home is pictured above! And you can get even closer... Thank god I had the shutters down! And that is my hungarian neighbour´s car... picture taken of my computer screen.

VISCA EL BARÇA

CELEBRATING AT WORK!

LAST WEEKEND IN BARCELONA...

...was, as usual, very quick...

went out every evening, el Cangrejo, Celtas, Metro... used all the free drink vouchers and the happy hours...

Angel & Joan... drunk? nah!

Saturday night was Eurovision, and the 12 points go to... JORDI! Jordi excelled as usual with his culinary skills... same menu year after year, but Gosh we love it! Forgot to take a pic! His Guacamole sauce is the best followed by his sandwich bread ham and cheese and lettuce cake at a close number 2! AH! and let´s not forget the albóndigas!

daylight activities included -apart from sleep- visiting the family and lounge in the balcony! Weather is very good already and I can´t wait for the summer! And let me tell you, travelling on the Hispano Igualadina coach to see mum and dad with a hangover... oh! it´s a no no... how many times have I done it and how many times will I do it again...

sunday after lunch... aka siesta time!

back blogging!

Dear friends...

wow it has been a busy time ever since I returned from Barcelona, no time to spare and no money either! I have been working endless hours building up extra time that I will now take off in June... Barcelona again for three weeks!! With a little journey to KL first, maybe...

Claire has invited me to her pad in Barbados too but what would you do if the money wasn´t in the bank?

Only one day off this week which was yesterday which was super as I watched Barcelona win the Champions League.

now it´s back to work this afternoon!

FORÇA BARÇA - TRICAMPIONS!!

font: El Periódico .

F.C.Barcelona is the first team to win the spanish league, the spanish Royal Cup and the UEFA Champions League all three in the same season. Hats off to mr Guardiola.

"Lo único que puedo decir es que me siento un ser afortunado, muy afortunado por haber sido escogido para dirigir a estos jugadores."

celebrations in Barcelona.

celebrations in the stadium...
aquesta foto dedicada al Jordi... qui son?

WORK WORK WORK

out again... with the girls...

... and the boys...

... and the ladies and the gents.

my best angle...

another hard shift on saturday night!

ONE TO WATCH

Do Começo ao Fim - Trailer

BEAUTY

dedicado a Divina de la Muerte...

uy uy uy.... será la mano de Kylie??

FORÇA BARÇA

Chelsea - Barcelona 1 - 1 Barcelona win on away goal(s)

Which means Barcelona will play against Manchester United at the

Champions Final in ROME on 27th May!

Josep Guardiola "so, so happy!"

WORK WORK WORK

...and following english tradititon, the best way to finish a long shift is at the pub with a pint of lager top! This time to the beautiful White Horse in Colnbrook!

Chris, Anna, Tania, Jinny and Nikki and me!

my girlfriend

BEAUTY

WORK WORK WORK

It seems I spend all the hours of the day at work. Get up, go to work, back home, and get up, go to work, back home... no time for myself this weekend! Even though the weather has been fantastic and it is a bank holiday.



I must be doing something wrong. Priorities in life have to shift now because I have learnt that time is something that we don´t have.



So let´s cheer up and start today to address the situation.



And how?

FORÇA BARÇA

Real Madrid 2 - Barça 6

Felicitats a en Josep Guardiola, entrenador del Barça, per la feina ben feta!

Barça arrival back to Barcelona from the extraordinary game at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.