POSTCARD FROM THAILAND

Vincens and James say hi from Krabi and Koh Pih Pih, in Thailand... on their south Asia tour which took them also to KL and Singapur and Bali! ... + humpltfglrkll!! :o/

Gran Ganga, Gran Ganga, soy de Teherán

Pues ahi va, dedicado a todos ustedes...

Alvaro, ahora seguro que sí que nos detienen en aduanas!

T-E-H-R-A-N

I am planning a visit sometime soon to T-e-h-e-r-a-n with my friend Alvaro... if you are from there or have been there please drop us a line! dtorra@yahoo.com or simply add comments to this post.

- thank you - شكرا لك

CHANGE FOR GOOD

CHANGE FOR GOOD is another charity by which British Airways collects all the unwanted change, in coins or notes and in any currency to donate to Unicef... so today I got rid of a huge bag with small change. Keep all your coins for when you fly next!

CHANGE FOR GOOD es també una obra de caritat que fa la companyía aèria British Airways. Colecten totes les monedes en qualsevol tipus de moneda per donar a Unicef. Així que guardeu-vos totes les monedes per quan voleu la propera vegada!

RED NOSE DAY

Comic Relief is a British charity organisation that was founded in the UK in 1985.

Red Nose Day is the main way in which Comic Relief raises money. It is held in the spring every other year, and is often treated as a semi-holiday, with, for example, schools having non-uniform days. The day culminates in a live TV event on BBC starting in the evening and going through into the early hours of the morning, but other money-raising events take place. As the name suggests, the day involves the wearing of plastic/foam red noses which are available, in exchange for a donation, from Sainsbury's and Oxfam shops.

The 2009 event took place on Friday, 13 March 2009. This year, more than 57 million pounds were raised.

A British Airways aircraft also with a red nose!

WORDLE.NET

write your own text and create an image like above at wordle.net

escriu un text i crea una imatge com aquesta a wordle.net

WICKEDGAYBLOG.COM

My friend David who publishes this impressive blog has added me to his "links we like" list!

Thank you David!!!

Que el niño de Boston que publica este blog me ha añadido a su lista de links favoritos!!

THE QUICKEST WEEKEND

1. Thursday: arrival and shower and unpack and out: We ended up at a chic new club in town: Lotus Theater. Fab music and fab beautiful people. This is to become a must for thursdays. So, if you are ever in Barcelona and it´s thursday, don´t miss it!

(time to bed: around 5am)

2. Friday: trip to hometown to see mum and dad. Ended up clubbing till late under my brother´s watchful eye as I try to find the gay 10% cuota in a full straight ambiance...

(time to bed: around 6am)

3. Saturday: trip Sant Salvador on the coast to check the new flooring on the terrace... getting ready for summer!!! back to Barcelona to hit the dancefloor again. D.BOY club, full jammed packed. Seen Bruno, my long lost friend, now living in Paris. (Trip to Paris is now due... ) and also seen new nice good looking friend Jordi DP, with his new boyf from somewhere in the Indian Ocean... it´s ok, it doesn´t matter... I´m fine with it.. honest!

(time to bed: around 6am)

4. Sunday: up for a run and later lunch at the cheap and cheerful el Berro, with Jordi and Matteo. Ended up at Punto BCN, one of the oldest gay bars in Barcelona, to celebrate its 19th anniversary. I hoped to see old friends in there but there was nobody from back our early days... met Manuel from Paraguay...

(time to bed(alone):1am)

shocking

at my age.

BEST FLIGHT EVER

Excellent customer service on my last flight down to Barcelona..... 6 bottles and an ice bucket! I was not on my own, Isabel is my partner in crime...

I´M IN LOOOVE

Sony Ericsson Idou.... not yet on the market, but I want one!

TAKE THE LUFTHANSA PILOT GAME!

This is quite a cool game!. You have to locate the cities in Europe (of course where Lufthansa flies) And looking at my score I'm quite good(?).. position 66000 sth out of 623000 plus - hmmmph...

NEW Heineken Commercial - muy bueno!

no paro de reirme cada vez que lo veo...

SAD NEWS

A frantic race was on to save scores of Whales and Dolphins stranded on King Island off Tasmania. 48 of the 194 were returned to sea. "It´s so sad... you can hear them crying..." one rescuer said.

...

MICHI AND SISTERS IN SITGES...

Well folks I have now recovered after being brave enough to post some of the recent pictures... so let´s carry on blogging! Here some of the great pics we took with Michi while visiting Barcelona with die Maria und die Barbl, her sisters. They loved it so much they popped the question: why am I not back in Spain?

Ay! The tapas... these are the most expensive tapas ever! Aren´t they, Michi????
Las tapas más caras de la historia... es que hay que ser turista...

Nenes, y nenas, ya recuperado del shock de publicar ciertas fotos del carnaval, que, por cierto, gracias por los comentarios, me siento con fuerzas de blogear, asi que ahi van unas fotos dedicadas a Michi y sus hermanas Maria und Barbl, para rememorar la inolvidable visita a Barcelona... y Sitges.

lunch at Santa Maria...

Die Maria... uno de 50. Celebrated her 50th!

Encontronazo con Carla!

Encontronazo con Jone and la troupe!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULIÁN!

These are pics from 18 years ago... when we met!

San Francisco

FESTA DE CARNAVAL - CARNIVAL PARTY!

NOTORIOUS!!
NO TE´N RIUS!!

PEOPLE FROM THE PARTY

Matteo and Jordi, making an entrance... I´m sorry! Do they call it love?


This is the Bollywood end of the table... Menú Bollywood!


Juanjo -so sad-, Angel, Jesús and Javier


Javier, aka la Vargas o Bollywood pija!


Octavio, Lorenzo and Francisco...


Salva and Sebastián... so many memories! Eh, Julián?


Angel with Cholo, (grrkgutjhñll!!) And Juan and me at the back... now please do not look at me... I have lost the sari already... though I would call it a shower curtain rather than a sari. Nevermind. Forgive me.


Ángel and me, with Mdme Pompadour. She is terribly fantastic and the Queen of the podium at the Satanassa club in Barcelona now long disappeared. More memories! . Satanassa was a generation. I am privileged I got to go there -quite a lot- Mdme Pompadour did the best impersonations of Sara Montiel. Unforgetable.



us again! with Juanjo below...

Rubén (2b bil) and Xavi













Here with Andrés and Dani... TWA... more memories!
























Y VAYA CON EL PRISIONERO!!


Losing it!
Great party. The meal at the restaurant is outrageous, especially for those innocent people who never thought they would be trapped in a restaurant with tens of us crazy dressed up as ladies! A show money can´t buy!!!

Are you comig next year?

PE

2009 Oscars Ceremony, Hollywood.

Congratulations to Penélope Cruz.... well done woman!!

click here to watch the acceptance speech! I think it´s very good.

DIA NACIONAL DE ROPA INTERIOR - NATIONAL UNDERWEAR DAY

Celebrado en Brasilia, no es más que una campaña de publicidad organizada por la web de moda Finíssimo. La idea no está mal!

The third annual national underwear day took place in Brasília yesterday, organized by fashion website Finíssimo. Thirty two models strolled down Conjunto Nacional and Rodoviária do Plano Piloto in nothing but underwear

IT´S SUNDAY: RVT

RVT or Royal Vauxhall Tavern, is a very busy place every sunday afternoon!. If you are in London you must make sure you go to check it out... every gay in London knows about it: The Dame Edna Experience. This is a fantastic show by talented Jonathan (he has been doing it now for 9 years!), who dressed like Dame Edna performs singing and telling jokes. The jokes are totally politically incorrect and sometimes rude and make the audience cringe - and this is a bearish audience! - The music is fantastic and DE mimics voices of famous singers very well: Tina Turner, Celine Dyon, Karin Carpenter...! The songs are all time classics and DE gets the crowd singing... highly recommended with a few pints!

Si es domingo, hay que ir al RVT. The Dame Edna Experience es un show fantástico que uno no se puede perder... todo gay de Londres lo sabe. Los chistes son políticamente incorrectos y de muy mal gusto, y crea incluso hastío a la audiencia más depravada... las canciones son muy buenas y de grandes artistas, Jonathan, el artista, llega a imitar muy bien las voces de cantantes famosos y se atreve a cambiar las letras de las canciones para causar más revuelo y consigue incluso que la audiencia al completo cante con él. Una gran experiencia y muy recomendable, especialmente con algunas pintas de cerveza de más!

I was there last sunday!