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Syracuse Sicily and its Roman Amphitheatre - 20 plus photos I took 2006

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Siracusa Syracuse travel photos by Dario Photo Gallery by Dario 2010 dariointernet.com Summary More than 25 photos and a video of this East Sicily ( Sicilia) town in Italy ( Italia ) CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL ARTICLE

Bruges - My travel pics 2006

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Bruges - Brujas Dario's 2006 Travel Photos dariointernet.com Summary : Photos of Bruges Click here for the FULL ARTICLE

Dario in Genova Genoa December 2006

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I guess I'm getting experienced. Together with Paris, Istanbul, Hungary and Lisbon , Genova is the fifth place I have visited twice simply because I think its beautiful. There are other towns I've visited repitedly, but mainly due to circumstances other than personal pleasure. Wish they got rid of that horrible scalestricks they have by the shoreside! If you think you have a twisted mind because you are passionate about collecting something, then think again! After seeing the display of a store in Genova dedicated entirely to Fabrizio de Andre , I think I can cherish that I still have some mental health remaining!

Dario at Besiktas In Istanbul December 2006

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Beutiful places should be visited twice. This was my second trip to Istanbul. Photo with Besiktas in the background. The road that leads to Besiktas I think is called DolmabahÇe. dolmabahche caddesi. Looks very much like the streets of Tehran in the 70s.

Songs I'm listening to Nov - Dec 2006

Laurens, Rose - Cherchez juvet, patrick - ou sont les femmes? seki, deniz (turkey) - aglamak yok Pooran - arezooye solh ahdieh - mamarow looloo bordeh Nek - Instabile aref - aziztarin angun - juste avant toi remix milva - tra due sogni Erkin Koray - Sen Yoksun Diye (For You're not There) Pooran - Bavare man (khodavandaa agar divaneham dar aasheghi) Caspian tape vol 6 Stadio - 1990 niente (anche se il cielo e nero io voglio il mondo entero) Sayin Emel - bak yesil yesil (bak yeshil yeshil)

Antes / Despues

Oct 14 06 fui a Leather Entré todo apuesto, tenso, limpio Salí: sudado, manchado, relajado, desabrochado y despeinado ;)

Songs I'm listening to September - October 06

- Mon A Q "I'ts my time - It's my turn" - Echo and the Bunnymen "In the margins" - Suzanne Palmer - "home" - Farzin - "rotab" - Golpa - Shab ( 2006 Inside Iran import ) - Foroughi, Fereydoon - Khaak - Aref دریاچهی‌ نور (daryaachey noor) live version - Farokhzad, Fereydoun - Aabshar ( who wrote this song ? )

Anousheh went to Space and it doesn't make me happy.

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ When taking the subway (metro) to work, here in Spain, most of us spend our time reading the free newspapers that get distributed at the entrance of the metro station. Today, inside the metro wagon, anywhere you would turn your head, you would see the face of Anusheh Ansari on the cover of these newspapers. Attached is the cover of ADN newspaper (www.diarioadn.com) . Apparently one of the guys flying with her is an american originally from Spain. Articles, including ones in your publication, suggest that iranians should be so proud of Anousheh. They say that we shoud learn from her and see her as our guiding example. Somehow seeing her face on the newpapers didn't make me that happy. Is she very different from the (eye)ranians driving around in bl...

on my cd / mp player songs July / Aug 2006

- Ojos de Brujo " Sultanas del Merkadillo" (2006) - Mietta "io ti ho perso" (2006) - Amir "gheymati" (2006) - Tiziano Ferro "Stop! Dimentica!" (2006) - Survivor (jimi jamison) - Gimme the world 2006 (given this place and time) - vission, richard feat. stranger days - somebody 2006 - Happy Rhodes - she won't go 2006 - Bush ( Gavin Rossdale ) - Float 2002 - iio is it love remix - Fereshteh - Azizam Geryeh Nakon 1974 - Weeks Michelle Dj Disciple - Turn It Around 1996 (when there are problems ..) - Nooshafarin - Atash 2006 - ramazzotti - Nomadi del amore 2006 - daniele, pino - "...compromeso per non esere depresso" - Khaled + indian singer (remix) (the one used by Larry Heard in one of his dj sets) - Mango - tutto el amore che ti manca (sei pane rizzo) - Camela - "...eres un sueño por el que muchos suspiraban, en el colegio.." - Aphrodites Child - italian recording - Maziar - "..aan morgakeh sargashteh..." - For...

Travel: Pictures of my travel thru Gent / Ghent Belgium

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My trip to Gent

Travel: Impressions of the London Scene

Spent two days: Friday and Saturday in London checking out the gay scene for those of us who like big hairy "blokes"!! On friday night in Central London (Soho) I tried "The Kings Arms". Its true, people there are nice, and a small bear was reasonably priced. However it was not a place for cruising and meeting new people. The guys were drinking their beer in the street infront of the bar and they were all standing in circles with their friends and lonley tourist like me had simply no chance!!! So it was nice, but definitly it is not for loners! You have to go with friends. Updstairs there was a bunch of tables. Now, you know you cant cruise whent there are dinner tables in the middle!! Then I tried 79 CXR. This was more appropiate for a loner... A 4pound cover charge and your in. The music was a bit too loud. Upstairs there were more guys hanging around alone, but then it was a little too crouded to do anything. I need a little space, so I can exchange looks and te...

Iran VS Portugal Worldcup 2006

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Commentary on the Iran VS Portugal game of the world cup 2006 in Germany MONgholaa! Iranian soccer team is just not improving. It´s drying up and fading away! I went to Frankfurt to see Iran play versus Portugal. Iran lost 2-0, but could have been 3-0. In the stadium, because you dont hear the tv presenter, it felt like 3-0. There seamed to be a goal at the very, which I guess didnt count. Imagine all the sacrifices involved in getting there from Spain. In Frankfurt there were slightly more Portuguese fans than iranian fans. I was carrying this huge "shir va khorshid" iranian flag. Many iranians have seamed to accept the "allah o akbar" flag as the iranian flag, which is dissapointing. Im sure they were carrying the "allah o akbar" flag, just because its easier to find than the "shir va khorshid" flag, but they should do an effort and use the lion and sun flag. It was a cute experience being at the stadium. It looks much smaller than what it l...

Quesadillas en Madrid!

El domingo fuí a la calle esa, que se me olvida su nombre, por Chueca donde hay dos restaurantes Mexicanos. Entré en uno y el ambiente era muy agradable ya que estaba decorado con parafernalias mexicanas. Era la primera vez que iva a comer un taco o una quesadilla desde que dejé California! Obviamente el sitio estaba lleno de americanos añorando lo mismo que yo! Eso si, el precio fue reflejo de lo que esta tan mal en España. Por una quesadilla tamaño de un micro taco (me quede pensativo un rato cuando vi lo pequeño que era - y yo que pensaba que iva a ser como las del Taco Bell!- ), un taco y una coca cola, me costo 9Euros = 12 dollares!!! Asi estamos en España! Y encima con los sueldos bajos que hay en España! -------------------------------------------- Funny dilbert strip relating to my job: Dilbert strip external link

Neighbourhood dog: Luna!

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Luna is such a sweet dog! She climbs the gate of the house where she lives to say hi to me, when I pass by.

France beat BRAZIL Worldcup 2006 - Italy beat Germany

I was walking in the streets in Madrid today. I stuck my head in a bar for a minute looking for a TV screen to check what the score was for the FRANCE VS Brazil game..... and YEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSS FRANCE WAS WINNING!!!! I stayed and when the 90 minute finish wistle blew.... we all screamed and put our hands in the air!@! YEEEAAAHHHHUUUUUUUUUU ----------- Coouple of days later it was the semi finals and Italy played host Germany. For some reason I wasnt a big fan of germany. I found ballack too violent and the whole team a little dorky! Italy played great and they showed so much style and elegance. Italy's play looked like one of those beautiful games of World Cup 1970. In extra time italy striked the "post" twice! Then finally when the game was almost over, one of Italy's players ( Andrea Pirlo) gets the ball in Germanys penalty area, and instead of quickly shooting, he keeps his cool, dribles, walks around like it was a fashion show, then passes the ball ...

ojos de brujo vazquez mellia june 2006

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Todo el mundo bailando y moviendo los brazos "in da air!". LLamó Shahram az majaarestan and Alvaro showed up, too!

iran vs mexico commentary worldcup 2006 Germany

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Commentary on the Iran VS Mexico game of the world cup 2006 in Germany It's been like a hard slap in the face! I was watching Iran's first Worldcup 2006 game, hopeing for a miracle. I'll be in Frankfurt for Iran's second game, the one against Portugal. A favorable result for Iran against Mexico would have pumped me up towards the second game against Portugal, but what I saw against Mexico has left me without a smile on my face. I almost dont want to get on that plane! Imagine these guys playing against Figo, Deko, Ronaldo, Pauleta, who was the maximum scorer in the soccer league of France! I wonder if I should close my eyes during the game with Portugal! I also wonder if it was a wise idea to spend my savings to go to Germany to be humiliated. I dont know why I'm dissapointed? What else should I have expected. The friendly against Croatia, showed what we were to expect. Iran's 2 scores against Craoatia were both generated from errors made by Croatia's defen...

funny things

Me an my coworkers were talkin over lunch... and It was cute to find out that several of us, get off the metro (subway / tube), several stations earlier than where we live, so that we can walk the streets and look at shop and store displays! ------------ I was traveling in Egypt, in Luxor. I was walking thru a non turisitic section of town and sat outdoors at a restaurant to eat! Five minutes later, I get greeted by a tourist friend which I had met some days ago on the Nile! She was walking on the non-tourist areas as well! Looking for a restaurant! So we eat together at the Terrace! ------------ Today I went to cut my hair. While I was having my hair cut, people were talking about the long lines at the supermarket. One guy said that the long line is so that people buy more items by paying attention to the expensive stuff close to the register and buy expensive things they would have otherwise ignored. However, my haircut person replied that when there is a long line, she actually buys...

Manifestacion por una vivienda asequible. Madrid Mayo 14 2006

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Manifestación por una vivienda asequible. Madrid Mayo 14 2006. Gritos como: !Esperanza Aguirre, Especuladora! !Queremos un pisito, come el del principito!

songs On my CD/MP player May 2006

Daniele , pino - Neve al sole (1999) Forouhar, Leila - Harchi Bekhai (habib) 2005 Cerati, gustavo - Lago en el cielo (quiero ser suave) 2006 Nek - almeno stavolta dee-vah feat joan faulkner - movin' higher 2003 Herbert Grönemeyer - Zeit,_Dass_Sich_Was_Dreht Foroughi, Fereydoon - Ghoozak'e Pa (1979 version feautering Kourosh Yaghmaie) Aref - asir karam_najwa 2005 kibir_el_hob (starts a la Chicane) Asala (Syria) - Asfa (a saa) Jowanna Malla (joanna jowana mala) - hatefdal fi albi ( EMI Lebannon / M music) 2006 yara - twassa fi ( emi lebannon / M music ) 2006 Elissa (Arabic) - Erga Sho / Ahla Dunya 2006 sherin (Egypt) (sherien) (Sheirin) - ein vananini (CD Album: lazam eish) Nitzer Ebb - Isnt it funny how your body works? (1984) (their first)