New Years Eve Traditions From the Americas to Europe
The past 2 years we’ve been celebrating New Years Eve outside the United States. See what fun New Years Eve traditions we’ve picked up from around the globe.
Going Back to the Middle Ages During ‘Semana Cervantina’
Alcalá de Henares, a small city outside Madrid, offers a chance to step back in time to a medieval market that takes over the streets during Semana Cervantina.
The World Outgames: Your Next Gay Travel Destination
We love to use special events as reasons to check out new travel destinations and wrote an article for GayTravel.com about traveling for the World OutGames.
Antwerp’s “To Russia With Love” Kiss In
Auston and I have never been huge gay rights activists though we have plenty of friends who take on that role and some who are even employed in that area of work. To them, and to all the countless others that we don’t know personally, we are of course eternally grateful for the work they do. We and the rest of the LGBT community directly benefit from their hard efforts. However, I’ve just never been innately passionate about it. It’s odd I suppose since it directly affects me, but it’s the same for many others. Just because you’re woman, or a minority, or an immigrant doesn’t mean you’re working day and night for your specific rights even though you clearly need and benefit from them. We all take on different passions, hobbies, works and activities. And we support one another when necessary.
Spain’s La Tomatina: Tips for All Those Tomatoes
Read valuable tips from our experience at La Tomatina – the annual festival and tomato fight each summer near Valencia Spain.
Visiting Stockholm’s Gay Pride On a Budget
Sweden is one of the most expensive countries of the EU. Yet we managed to make it one of our most cost effective European trips by volunteering at Gay Pride.
The Gayest Weekend in Antwerp, Belgium
As we exited the central train station to step into the city of Antwerp for the first time, we felt immediately wrapped in the colorful embrace of a multitude of rainbow flags. We have been to a fair number of gay pride events over the past two years – four last year and five this year which we later learned was unimpressive compared to the ten plus pride events another American expat living in Germany had attended this year – but we have never seen a city so decked out in rainbows before. You really would have thought Rainbow Brite and her gayer-than-unicorns-sidekick-horse, Starlite, had been hired to decorate the city.
Wet & Wild Water War at La Batalla Naval
Spain is fond of its festivals and some of the best involve battles. Batalla Naval is a great water fight in the neighborhood of Vallecas outside central Madrid.
TwoBadTourists Talk: Lisbon’s Gay Pride March
If you recall back in June, we had a campaign going on TwoBadTourists.com for our followers to vote on which Gay Pride event to send us. Between London, Paris, Barcelona, and Lisbon, Portugal’s capital city won! We chose these four cities because they were all celebrating their Pride weekends on the same days. Or so […]
Haro’s Epic Batalla del Vino
Every year on June 29, there’s a battle in Haro, Spain in the region of La Rioja where ed wine is the ammo and white clothing is the un-protective armor.