Operacion Truinfo – Spain’s hottest reality show!

Operacion Truinfo

Operacion Truinfo is one sort of like X Factor in the UK and US… Its a reality pop tv contenst, but the boys are much cuter than in the UK version… they can also sing which makes a big difference! This boy, Jose Antonio lives just down the road from Sitges in Vilacadens, is 29 and lives at home. Currently looking for work he entered the show for fun… and he has been a great performer… but for some reason the public keep on nominating him. Hes been saved before so we have everything crossed that he will last this time too… you can see why we thingk so!

Operacion Truinfo

Enough said! Watch last nights show on the TV5 Site.

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Here's a little early Christmas present from GaySitgesGuide.com. To celebrate our growth over the past 3 months we have a beautiful prize to give away. Its a Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition. The phone draws its name from the powerful desert-born wind that originates in the Sahara when a warm, dry air mass collides with the cooler, maritime air of Mediterrean Spain. This is a phone that will definitely get you that second look from all those lovely gay boys and girls in Sitges!

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Your top 10 Seaches of 2006!!!

Top Searches

So, we've only be live since late Summer, but already you've searched over 40,000 times on our search box on our home page! And we've worked hard to give you what you want! We will leave some of the more obscure search terms for another post! But they were hot… The air-conditioning had to be turned up a notch in the GaySitgesGuide.com office when we saw some of the things you boys were looking for! But here is the top 10… which shows what your are looking for on your next trip to Sitges!

Top Searches

Your main priority is your bed…or more accurately finding a bed to stay in, with Hotels being your preferred option, followed very very narrowly (less than 5% difference) by Apartments. Once you've found where to stay, you've two things on your mind! Getting a tan and finding a boy! (Beaches and Cruising).. After that its a night out on the town (bars) and then you hope to score!

Finding your way around is essential so a good map and directions is always handy! After all that exercise, its time to eat as restaurants make it into the number 10 position.

We'll be using this data (and the analysis of the other 40,000 search terms) to fine tune this guide over the comming months to bring you even more of what you're looking for!

Lo Que Surja – Spain’s Hottest Gay Soap!

Lo Que Surja

This is Spain's hottest show at the moment… and its online. Lo Que Surja is an Spanish soap opera, in the style of Queer As Folk. It revolves around the love lives of 6 cute Spanish boys Borja, Alex, Pablo. Alberto, Hugo and Edu. Its a great way to practice your Spanish while looking at someting lovely. Watch episode 1 below where a little cutie outs himself! There are 3 more online.

To view the other episodes visit the official Lo Que Surja Website.

The 101 Essential Tips for the Perfect Holiday in Sitges

101 Essentials

Our aim at GaySitgesGuide.com is to make your holiday planning as easy as possible. We have been speaking with locals and tourists alike for the past 9 months and have gathered all of their little tit-bits, words of advice and insider tips and have decided to share them with you our readers! Every once in a while we will publish a “101 Essential” tip. They will all be categorised so that you can find them easily. Hopefully they will make your holiday to Sitges even more enjoyable and help avoid those cultural faux-pas that we all make now and again.

With that in mind, here is Essential tip No 1. And it involves Drink!

Chupitos

A “Chupito” is merely a shot of Alcohol…. it can be Vodka, Apple Schnapps etc… They should be downed-in-one and never ever refused! It is also impolite to sit there sipping from your little glass slowly! Go on, be a man!

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Strolling around Sitges…

Gay Sitges

Strolling around Sitges today and the weather was simply beautiful. The cafes were buzzing with lots of lovely boys from Barcelona and beyond. With most of Northern Europe covered in rainclouds, its time to skip town and pay us a visit. You never know what we might see. We thought we were seeing double when these two guys passed us by. Its a very Sitges-look though!

An extra hour in bed… mmmmmmm

CEST TO CET Sitges

Remember this weekend… you have an extra hour to party the night away… or an exta hour in bed to recover… At 3am Sunday morning, the clocks go back to 2am from CEST to CET.

Remember Organic is having it's last night before closing until Christmas complete with band playing at 3am.. Should be different.

Amazing Views of Sitges

Fabricio in Sitges

Sitges has some amazing scenery. And what better way to view it than with a beautiful man…. We were out with Fabricio, taking some shots before he heads home to Brazil. But don't worry.. he will be back again next Season. Until then.. here he is enjoying some of Sitges more familiar sights.

Fabricio by the canon

These canons were meant to keep people out in the middle ages… now the invaders are more welcome…

Fabricio La Fragata Beach

La Fragata beach in the background is home to some of the more high-end restaurants in Sitges. It is also the scene where many local festivities are set, including the fireworks displays, the wine trashing competition and a host of other one-off events in Sitges. When it gets really hot, it is the best place to watch the boys play beach voleyball in the Summer…. lovely.

Voleyball Sitges

Sitges gets Gay Monument

Gay Sitges Monument

Sitges recently unveiled the first monument dedicated to Gay people in Spain. The monument commerates the 10th anniversary of a particularly dark period in Sitges relationship with gay people. In 1996, the municipal government dediced to monitor the activity of gay people on the beaches of Sitges.

Gay Sitges Monument view from Beach

Unsuprisingly, this decision was met with uproar by the local gay community. Relations between gay people and local government institutions was frosty at best throughout that period. Tension mounted at the end of September when a gay waiter was attacked and beaten by a group of Neo Nazis. Local gay organisations mounted a protest on the streets and eventually the decision to monitor activities on the beach was dropped.

You can watch the unveiling of the monument here.

The monument bears the inscription, “Sitges. 1996 – 5 October 2006. Against homofobia”. In the shape of an inverted pink triangle, the monument itself looks a bit dated in our opinion, however it is still worthy of note as a move in a positive direction.