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.

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. ❤️

Disney’s Animal Kingdom: zoological edutainment
ORLANDO: Disney’s Animal Kingdom is the only Disney theme park that houses zoo-like attractions as well as rides and shows. We went on a gay-old adventure in search of the Pride mural and investigated how queer the animal kingdom actually is.

Disney’s Hollywood Studios: Immersive movie magic
ORLANDO: Disney’s Hollywood Studios has been given a huge overhaul, creating some of the best-themed theme park areas ever seen. And being two big gay Star Wars nerds, we just had to dive into that galaxy far, far away!

Magic Kingdom Park: a gay couple exploring Walt Disney World
ORLANDO: Join us on our Couple of Men adventure while we tell you all about the Disney Gay Days, Disney Pride Mural, and our other favorite queer things at Magic Kingdom Park!

Exciting! Amsterdam to host World Pride 2026 with the Motto “UNITY”
AMSTERDAM: This Friday, November 4, 2022, we receive wonderful, rainbow-colored news! Yes, it is now official: our adopted hometown Amsterdam will host World Pride 2026.

7 good reasons why KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is gay-friendly
AMSTERDAM: Since 2019, we’ve been traveling around the world with our partner airline KLM. Now it’s time for us to take a closer look at how gay-friendly KLM Royal Dutch Airlines actually is!

Adventure Switzerland: From Bern to the Matterhorn & on to Interlaken
SWITZERLAND: LGBTQ+ and Gay-friendly Switzerland Summer Trip: Our vacation in Bern, and Zermatt ( the Matterhorn) in Interlaken with Pink Alpine.

Interrail around Europe: France, Netherlands, Switzerland & Germany
EUROPE: Our sustainable train trip with Eurail / Interrail through Europe from France to the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany.

Oregon Road Trip: From Portland to Crater Lake & the Pacific Coast
USA: Our road trip from Portland to Crater Lake, stunning Waterfalls at Umpqua River Valley & the beauty of the Pacific Coast.

Portland’s Nature Highlights: 9 Tips for a Gay Summer Trip to Oregon
USA: As nature lovers, it was our quest for this USA trip to seek and experience Portland’s most beautiful natural highlights..
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 ☃️