Yes indeed, and thus my third blog is already deployed:

After Spain, settled down in the UCB, got my definitive room and pimped it out...

Before going to Spain took some instants of the campus, my room and Birkenfeld, the nearby town (5 km, is like IUJ and Urasa)...

University...Mucho, IfaS potential dog...There are millions of this bichitos in the area...Birkenfeld...Great WTF en Birkenfeld...Birkenfeld from high above...First weekend went as a group to Saarbrucken, a nearby city...
McDonalds en Saarbrucken???Missing someone...Saarbrucken kid...Nico, the cute Thai-German kid of Thomas...Beauty of Saarbrucken...Hobbit...Christos...Aleluia!!!! Por fin verde y yuca!!!!!!!!!!!! Shisha-land...Ecuadorian guineo...Father and son...Ecuadorian feast!Next day went to Spain...

After Spain, had to wait some days to get my new and definitive flat... in the meantime, composed this dead nature...Nina picking flowers...Thomas' lady Sassy, making the hot spicy hardcore pizza...Contrast...Happy family dinner...Visit to Ozoda, just arrived...The IfaS bus...Döner und IMATos...New smoking habits (much cheaper than cigarettes)...Mucho, perro loco...IfaS smoking area...Starting to get sick...Then I got really sick, and had to spend a nite in the hospital... Thanks Pipo!Got better and same day Rafaelito came back from Siberia, alive...Front of my new lodgings...The previous lodger of my headquarters...The Potential Dog... if he goes berzerk, I don't know what could happen... Mucho es casi tan grande como Charlie...Mucho inspired me for a motivational poster:Finally moved in my new home... Inauguration food: arró con puré de papas y pollo frito...Spontaneous visitors...
We decided to visit München: Rafa's family and Oktoberfest...
Ina the Body (kind of sempai who help us settle in the campus) and l'arc~en~ciel saying good bye to the travellers...German landscapes...Muni setting late dinner for us...Happy family breakfasto...Hitting Munich streets...Meche Mocha en concierto!!!Places...Symbol of Munich...Oktoberfest!Beertime...Pretzel psichos...Tough guy drinking 2 liter in 20 seconds!3 mousequeteers...Touching scene: father and son getting pissed together...Concentration camp-looking police facility...
Waiting for the friend who will make us enter a tent (is quite hard, since all tents are unbelievable packed)...The friend!Inside a tent...With friends of friends...Beerfaces...A Sucker...Native girl greeting...Beer overdrive...Oktoberfest helped me understand the true nature of beer:Scenes in da street...Kind of traditional festivale game...After went to a bar or something, but everything was blurry...
Next morning: post-traumatic effects of Oktoberfest...Felt like a fallen angel...Strange neighbour of Rafa...More sightseeing...Cathedral...More goth structures...Funny doggie...Ana María and tempting cheese...3 out of 12 monkeys...I love those plants invading walls...Beautiful cemetery (Et in Arcadia ego...)Fearless squirrel...Strange graffitti...Shadowy canal...Waste into district heating...Riverside park...Yet another house of god...Disturbing...Beauty...At Rafa's sister...Uncle Rafa...Photographer ad...Yet another happy family dinner...The Playboy Book...Tribute to Gábor...Very disturbig!!!Good-bye Muni and Peter...Good-bye München...Packed train...How German villages look-like...1 hour in Frankfurt, not long enough as to meet Andy and Kyouko :(
Back to regular life, and classes start...
View from my window...Dryer machine: 2 euro!!!!Lab time...Always tag unknown liquids...Beauty of the world around UCB...Hardcore lab...Believe...It's official, Mucho is Loco...Party night at UCB... at Ilona's...The public party itself was boring for me... apparently they only play heavy metal and other unsuitable-for-party music... Only a couple of danceable tunes...
On saturdy, what was expected to be a daytrip to Köln (Cologne) became a 2 days journey to estrange lands... Because of my cheap ticket, instead of a 3 hours train with 1 change became a 5 hours milk-train expedition with 2 changes... Un jodido tren lechero!!!

Between a town called Bacharach and the city of Koblenz, magnificent landscapes with the Rhine river (unluckily I was in the opposite window), castles, ancient walls, picturesque villages, etc...Eventually arrived in Cologne, and met Philipp... The jewel of the city just outside the trainstation: the Cathedral of Cologne!My pal Cedric (el esposo de Emilene, para los que saben) was waiting there already... And accompanied by a fellow Guayaquilean (Guayaquilense), Felix...First talk about business (possibility of a MFM project in a factory at Guayaquil), then hit the streets... Everybody was in the terrazas, riverside, grass, etc... Apparently good weather is not common in this lands...Packed streets and beer houses all around... Köln features concentrations of Arab ladies, but none as beautiful as one I know...German Shisa...Official picture of the Ecuador MFM Domination Squad, and separation: the guys back to Brussels and us back to Pipo's village...Cathedral is bloody imponent!Therefore I had to fulfill my dream os juggling in front of Her...Good-bye Köln...Arrival to Philipp's home, and meeting his grandparents, cool couple...Grandma's soup brought me back to life...Went to Pipo's friends to watch Germany Vs. Russia... This guy doesn't seem to have a Christian name, people knows him as Porno...Went to visit La Chica (aka. Evelyn)... A small Tokashiki catarsis...The guys (Adi, La Chica's boyfriend and Porno) were in a soccer mood that nite...Wii locos...Snack time...Next morning, exploration of the surroundings... The Rosenthal emporium...The Rosenthal manor...Candy houses and trainstation just behind...Small park and wars memorial...Church (couldn't discover the whorehouse, tho)...River...Even here they worship Changó (Santa Bárbara bendita)...The infamous Tracto-Technik...Other stamps of the surrounding villages and roads...Visit to Nina's house... (in)Constant gardeners...Nina's famiglia...More Sauerland stamps...Way back home, Rhineland-Palatinate stamps...Believe it or not, Amaterasu protects me even in Deutschland...And under Her protection, arrived back home :)

Thanks Pipo and Nina for your hospitality, sniff...

Labels: Köln, München, Saarbrucken, Sauerland

Back in BCN, and continuation of the barrios visiting... El Rabal, El Gótico, etc...After surviving Mongolia, my feet got hurt in Barcelona!!!Vintage submarine...Churches all around...Original city wall...Vendetta...Churchy environment...Lunch: magnificent nazu dengaku by Gábor...Arc de Triomf, on the way to pick Mibu-chan...Mibu in BCN!Mibu and Wakame...Wakame, emakaW and herself...On the way to La Oveja Negra...Oveja Negra time...My friend Silvia, from IUJ times...iPhone lover...Horny love...Satanic Ovejanegraman...Inflating Mibu's bed...Happy family time...Next day, Bus Turístic...La Sagrada Familia!!!!!! This temple has been in construction since Gaudí's times (19th century or so)... At the current rate will be finished by 2050!!!!The beating of Chuchito...Fundamental question... (everything in SF is written in Catalá)Half way in the lift queue...Interiors of SF...Barcelona from high above...Towers...Bruders...Unusual perspectives...Gábor to Mibu...Tenshi...Sacred Family...Cool stairway...The temple will look like this when comnpleted...Glorious façade...Japanese photo-taking technique...Angels playig the trumpets...The Birth... Adoration of the Magi...The Killing of the Innocents...Gaudí's inspirational devices...Paella time...Guayaquil-like street sport signals...Beauty...Catalonian pride...En route to the Montjuic gondola...Happy kid with gondola ticket...BCN from Montjuic...Back to the beach-port area...Abnormally slow rat...Pir8s!Rise of the barefoot soldiers...Backhome time...Kitchen authority...Yet another happy family dinner...Adoration of Wakame...Bea drinking beer with a straw!!!!???Black in black...Siblings-in-law...My last day in BCN: hit the streets for the last time... Las Ramblas...Profaned statue...Graffittindio...Catalunya's "burro" ass-screwing Spain's "toro"...Last Ecuadorian meal in Spain...Official good-bye pictures...Adiós, que triste fué el adiós....Separation anxiety...I truly enjoy Spain, thank you bro and Beiko for your hospitality!!! Also was very nice to meet my friends there... Maybe life is about that: meeting friends wherever you go...

As a final display of brotherly love, some pictures from Mibu's eye... Mibu-chan, good luck with your work and life, kisses...
And thus came back to Germany, and re'started my new life in Birkenfeld... Insights of that life in my new post...

Labels: Mibu

So we arrived in Madrid, and after finding our lodgings inmediately hit the streets...

Crowded streets... Funky signs... Impressive buildings... La Puerta de Alcalá!!!! Mírala, mírala, mírala...Fuente de las Cibeles...Don Miguel! Cuban restaurant!!!!!!!! Puelco asado, puerco frito, congrí, ensalada, maduro frito, tostones (patacones), potaje, arró.... Sólo nos faltó yuca con mojo y cerveza Hatuey...Happiness... Almost licked the dishes... Nostalgia, de escuchar tu risa loca y sentir junto a mi boca como fuego tu respiración... Es un tango, pero pega...Plaza Mayor... Fat bastardo and Gábor fucked faces...More funky signs...Andalusian bar...The ideal business...Beiko-chan in front of our hostel... UNO time...
Toledo! Here Muslim, Christians and even Jews used to live in peace and harmony, during the Arab occupation of Iberia...Morito loco...Todo por la Patria, coño!Toledo love... They seem to like the old Facist iconography here... Maybe they miss Franco times...Even a plate to San José Antonio!!! (José Antonio Primo de Rivera, father of the Spanish Phalanx)...Souvenirs for (rich) tourists...Don Miguel, rediez!Heaven...Toledo cathedral... Another fetishist desire became real: to juggle in front of a medieval cathedral...Craftsman embroiding Toledo gold thread... Sadly this tradition is dissapearing, most people do it by electrolisis rather than by hand, skill and patience...Ancient torture instruments!Intolerance...Iron Maiden...San Benito...Gulp!Chastity belt... Saw...I felt like Dr. Lecter...Paella and deer...Yet another massive church...Ancuient bridge...Adiós Toledo!!! I daresay I have walked ALL historical Toledo...
Back in Madrid, Paolita, aka Posli Jr.By the way, in Gran Vía, if you are not sitting at a terraza or walking, the hundreds of prostitutes that work there think you want some chocolat, and make you indecent proposals...

Later met Lourdes (Bea's cousin, and her bf Pedro, a real Madrid booy)..They took us to El Madroño, for magnificent tapas...Licor de madroño, served in chocolat shot glasses...Amaterasu also smiles in Madriz!I also hate fucking shopping malls... Mercados rules... Madric luv...La Chueca signs...Tom & Jerry cheese...Premonition of La Noche en Blanco...Don Quijote and 3 Sanchos...Palacio Real...Hungry horse...Palacio Real!!!Satanicum...No pictures allowed inside...Isabel la Católica...WTF??????Funny named bar...Life threatening lunch: cocido madrileño...Ye Old Library... unluckily closed...
Erena-chan!!!Again I was molested by hookers while waiting for her... Do I look like I need to pay for chocolat?

Underpath...Ere-tan to Gaboro...Sphinx...La Puerta de Alcalá revisited...El Retiro park...Evil and good...Fallen me...Cristal structure...Griffo...Church...Long queue to enter El Prado museum...Tapas and beer time...Yes, Duff exists!!!!To Rafa...La Noche en Blanco (the White Night)...Lion balls, by Bea...Good'bye to Erena-chan...Brunch...Goya...After spending the whole day in Thyssen and El Prado museums, lament for my broken camera or The Martyrdom of Saint Angelo...Soy cagaíto a mi padre, carajo...Pedro took us to the airport...And again we surviced another Spanair flight...
Back in Barcelona, and Mibu-chan's visit, but that will be depicted in the next post...

Labels: Erena, Madrid, Posli, Toledo

Finally, and after almost 2 years, was able to see my bruder, something my mother found in 1984, in Las Tunas hospital...

From my new home in Birkenfeld (Frankfurt Hann airport) took Ryanair to Barcelona... Parecia terminal terrestre esa huevadash...Arrived Girona, bus to BCN, then brother + Bea-chan came to the rescue... Plantains and mandioca everywhere!!! Verde y yuca, y con qué falta de respeto los venden por toda Barcelona...Welcoming lamb at their flat... Bea, Vincent Vega and Julius...Brotherly love... View from their flat... Street art?Bea's famiglia... Bea's mama was laughing all the time, but in the picture :PDinner in San Feliú: massive tapas/ration of shrimps and something else... Camarones y sepias, doble ración y barateche...Che: el Argentino movie poster... Tú lo sabías, Guevara...Visiting uncle Víctor and aunt Carmen Lola...Heaven!Cheerful tourist guide...Gaudí's building whose name I cannot remember...La Pedrera, another Gaudí's masterpiece...Boquería, the only place you could find Ecuadorian foodstuff 10 years ago... Miró's woman and bird...Cristopher Culumbus, pointing to godamn Marsella...Lion...Cousing Víctor, porter of the holy paella...Uncle...Pílsener, crappy Ecuadorian beer... Aunque a algunos les guste esta bazofia... Y no es que ando hecho el fino, siempre he predicado que la Pílsener es mala...Pony Caca... Hayaca and bollo... A 5 ebros cada una, pero valió la pena...Melloco salad... A los siglos que no comía esta porquería! Wakame...Commie bastardo...Some snacks at Uncle's...Unhealthy breakfast...Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya...View of BCN...Fairs area...Port Vell, where the filthy rich have their yatchs...Vintage submarine...Negger at the beach...Kabuto...Geometría...Parc de la Ciutadella...Arc de Triomf...La Generalitat or something like that...Ancient city walls...Toy I'd Like To Have...Indescriptible thing made of intestine and smashed pork face with unknown elements, but delicious...Our cousins' bar...Lamp I'd Like To Have...Tapas with our cousins at Hospitalet...Chipirones and pimientos del Padrón... Unos pican y los otros non...Reservoir Dogs...Wii addiction...Arabic speaking people from Northern Africa mostly are the second largest minority in Spain... Filthy Ecuadorians are the first...
La Shumi...Gábor's Moroccan friend, a guy who speaks all tongues of Babel...First Ecuadorian lunch in 1 year!!! Avena Quaker, la única vena que va de la boca al culo...Shrimp fish... Sopita de camarón, para los indios...Our cousin Víctor...Dogface Gábor...Even in Spain people eat this shit??? Debe tener hasta cucarachas, como en el Liceo Cristianosh...Gaboro to Beaturikusu...Ukiyo-e exposition, at La Pedrera...
La Pedrera's ceiling...Freedom from the evil Spaniard, yeah!!!Went to cinema, to see Benicio del Toro as Ché Guevara... He convinced me... Franciscana time...3 mousqueteers...Gábor's talkative friend...Gábor + Wakame...Satanic barber-ito...Light snack before flight to Madrid...Spanair flight: 2 weeks earlier 150 people died in an Spanair crash... Nos pasamos todo el viaje apretando el ojete...Barajas, hostia coño joer!Gran Vía...Satanic stairways of our hostel...And so started our Madrid adventure...
But it will be shown in the next post :)

Labels: BCN, Bea, Gábor

Back in Beppu, and counting the days for HK and Germany... Also last moments with habibti, but c'est comme ca, zannen...

First dinner in Japan, after Mongolian meet excesses, Sui Ten was our desire...Last CoCo Ichibanya curry intake...Farewell to Muti-chan... Vaya con dios, fratella... Last izakaya set...Last visit to 68...Cucaracha (tequila + kahlua) time...Last pizza (but maybe there's also pizza in Europe???)...Last dinner + drinks at home...Thai cook...Friends...Hardcore Thai food... It burned 2 times...Halid, the godfather of the Arab mafia...Shisha time by the beach (in Japan more than 80% of the seashore is concreted, disgusting)...Farewell to Artur and Volker...Farewell to David, the Poisoned one...Farewell to Gift... Thanks for the Singha beer!!!Fukuoka...Last supper in FUK...Next morning, ready to hit the skies of the world...Farewell Japan... Hello Hong Kong! Massive buildings...All buses and trams seem to be 2 storied...Man Mo temple, in Hollywood road (1st street in HK)...Kwun Yam shrine, in Repulse Bay...Ebisu!Habibi in Stanley...JUMBO, the biggest floating Chinese restaurant in the universe, in Aberdeen...Habibi at Victoria Peak... Breathtaking views of HK from the Peak...Governors' house, where all the British governors lived...Strange completely white building...Wan Chai, golden flowerish thing square...Impressive night views of Kowloon...Kind of rooftop bier garden...Last supper...Yet another nite view of HK...Farewell HK, and the painful time of Habibti and Malak sad moment of good bye approaches...Dubai airport, many hours later...
Good-bye (hopefully not farewell) habibti... last year was beautiful because of you...
Many many hours later: Frankfurt...
Pipo was waiting for me in the airport, thanks my dear BOSCO presidente!Approaching the Umwelt Campus Birkenfeld...Ilona and Aiste, surrealist!My new home...Happy dinner with Ricardo...First beer session in Deutschland... I was really tired, so it didnt last long...
And so I have a new home, and started to adapt to a new life, away from my beloved one, but close to my IMAT colleages and dear friends... Good luck to me!

Labels: Hong Kong