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Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!

By: Author Karl Krause

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Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!
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The time of year has come, when love, peace, and togetherness are defining our days with the whole family, friends and, of course, with your partner(s). Additional to all the presents, gifts, and arrangements to surprise loved ones, time together is the most valuable gift we can give to each other. And this became painfully clear this year since we cannot see, hug, kiss, and be close to one another during Christmas.

This year was challenging for all of us, again. A tiny thing set course to disrupt our “normal” lives and plunged the world into chaos. Working, traveling, being social – all the things that define our daily lives were about to change from one moment to another. We like to call it the years of the long pause. After the first shock, life seemed to return to almost normal during the summer months. We could even travel for about two months – our trip to Austria for the Oink Lake Festival and a one-month trip to the United States including New York – Dutchess County, Las Vegas and Florida.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Enjoying the view over Peyto Lake | Winter Road Trip Alberta Highlights Canadian Rocky Mountains © Coupleofmen.com
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! © Coupleofmen.com

Our biggest adventure so far, however, was buying an apartment in Amsterdam together this year. Months of viewings, arranging a mortgage and the big renovation project including removing walls, install a new kitchen and slowly settling down have been challenging enough. 

The positive signals were not meant to last. The situation changed again, dramatically in the past weeks and months, with many people getting sick or even died. But it remains important that we all stand together, following the guidelines, and step back for a moment from our luxury and egoism. It is not only about us, it is about the people who are important to us, and the ones who are important to them.

Let’s hope the current waves are the last ones, and we will be able to defeat the crisis in 2022.

 In the last days of the year, we are planning to stay home in Amsterdam, making video calls to Germany and around the world, taking a break from work, and snuggling up on our new sofas with our cat. We hope you can find your time to surround yourself with the people you love.

Merry Gay Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Karl & Daan. ❤️

Merry Gay Christmas and Happy Holidays!

For 2022, we are planning our first trips already in January to Germany and in February to the Canary Islands on the Spartacus Cruise, marking the starting point of our upcoming gay travel year. The year 2022 is hopefully different, better again for adventurers like us.

But we are going optimistically into the new year. Hopefully, traveling will be easier possible again soon and so will be social gatherings, personal contact with friends and family.

We have already some interesting destinations on our travel list with European stops in Germany (Berlin, Dresden, Heidelberg, Munich), Spain, trips to the United States of America and hopefully Asia already in spring again. Let’s hope 2022 will turn out to be an exciting travel year again. Our focus will be sustainability issues, not only the environment but also supporting the integration of LGBTQ+ friendliness in our society’s DNA.

But that won’t be all you will hear, read and see from us. All in secret behind the scenes, we are busy with a huge project: Writing our first book together, published by the known publisher Gräfe & Unzer – Polyglott. Soon we will tell you more about this wonderful opportunity!

For more about our gay travels around the world, stay tuned on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, and Instagram. See you next time somewhere in our beautiful world!

Merry Gay Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Karl & Daan. ❤️

Marycruz Cardenas Navarro

Sunday 24th of December 2017

Feliz Navidad para ustedes también!!

Luis Silva

Sunday 24th of December 2017

Merry Christmas ☃️