Madrid With Pride

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Madrid with a bit of Pride!

Old and new friends in the city that never seems to sleep…

By bus, Daniel, Jorge, Armando, and I left Barcelona arriving into Madrid at 11pm. At the bus station I met up with my friend MariaJose while the guys checked into their nice hotel in Quevedo. MariaJose was in a rush as we were late for meeting some friends, Nadia and Christian, in Chueca. MariaJose also introduced me to her other fun friends in Madrid. Once the guys arrived into Chueca we all partied in the square with the tons of other people enjoying the Friday night party for Madrid’s Gay Pride. It was a great time to have an old time friend Daniel, his cousins Armando and Jorge, new friends MariaJose, Nadia, and Christian, plus some other friends in company.

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Sitges Playas

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The Playas’ In Sitges

Paradise only 35 minutes from Barcelona in Southern Catalunya.

Sitges is like a miniature Miami South Beach with its pumping bar life, beautiful bodies, and beach environment. Its a tranquil town for all people to relax in the sun, but its more known for its gay vacation destination.

Sitges is very local to Barcelona and is where I sometimes spend the weekends or even sometimes the weekdays relaxing. The town is very lively with many bars and clubs, mostly gay, that have fun parties. The beaches and especially the surrounding vicinity have much nicer playa’s than Barcelona. Its my little paradise, only 35 minutes away.

I’ve been to Sitges a handful of times so these pictures below are from various trips.

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Living In London

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London Living…

Unshockable, Multicultural, Intellectual, Introverted, Liberal, Theatrical, Historical, Reserved, Proper, Exciting…..What isn’t London?

Living in London for an entire academic year was quite the experience. In no other place can you witness a wide amount of cultural diversity working together in one crammed mecca. The way the city operates from riding the underground, shopping at the supermarket, walking on oxford street, etc., is something completely different to any other place I lived before. At first I was really tired and couldn’t keep up with the high speed of things and would be very exhausted after coming home from school. Sooner or later I adapted into the way this metropolis operates and enjoyed its special charm along with the rest of its 7.4 million people.

London is the world’s largest multi-lingual city with more than 100 languages spoken. The large variety of ethnic backgrounds come from Britain’s commonwealth, Asia, Australia, the European Union, and also South America. Americans arrive in London expecting a silver platter of tea and crumpets when really all they find is an impressive collaboration amongst the different cultural backgrounds and an overabundance of fried chicken and curry kebab stands. The UK has such an important foreign cultural influence that according to the BBC, it has now adopted ‘curry’ as its national dish. The UK not only exposes itself to best of the world’s cultures but celebrates it.

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London Peoples

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Friends From London…

Studying abroad in London was a great experience and opened a new door for making friends from around the world. I was really fortunate to meet such good peoples who came together from all different backgrounds and countries. I even had a neighbor from Burma.

London is a great place to study because of the different array of people you meet and how everyone I met was interested in each other’s backgrounds, culture, and views of the world. It was truly an international and multicultural enriching experience and I learned so much just by making friends with people who were not American. I was really fortunate to break away and embed myself into a different surrounding and learn about myself and my country by listening to my friends and what they had to say.

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The Queen’s Golden Jubilee

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Long Live The Queen

A four day celebration marks 50 years of glorious reign.

London celebrated The Queen’s Golden Jubilee commemorating 50 years of a glorious reign with parades, parties, concerts, and a thanksgiving service at St. Paul’s Cathedral. The Celebration attracted more than a million people to Buckingham Palace, Green Park, St. James’s Park, through The Mall to Admiralty Arch to Trafalgar Square. This event has proved the strong relationship between the people and Sovereign through the past 50 years of British history.

The celebrations and festivities displayed the unreserved British pride with more than a million spectators waving the Union Jack, singing “Land of Hope and Glory”, and uniting with other British of all colors. Multiculturalism and diversity were themes expressed by the events with a parade of 36 organization’s representing Britain’s ethnic minorities and ambassadors from its 54 commonwealth nations. Accompanying the parade was a gospel choir of 5,000 singers belting out uplifting soul. The finale was a crowd pleaser with a red, white, and blue low-level fly-by with 27 Air Force aircraft.

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