Theme Week Seychelles

22 December 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  16 minutes

Victoria Clock Tower © Bjørn Christian Tørrissen/cc-by-sa-4.0

Victoria Clock Tower © Bjørn Christian Tørrissen/cc-by-sa-4.0

Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles (French: République des Seychelles; Seychellois Creole: Repiblik Sesel), is an island country and archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, Victoria, is 1,500 kilometres (800 nautical miles) east of mainland Africa. Nearby island countries and territories include the Maldives, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, and the French overseas departments of Mayotte and Réunion to the south; and the Chagos Archipelago to the east. Seychelles is the smallest country in Africa as well as the least populated sovereign African country, with an estimated population of 100,600 in 2022.   read more…

Royal Vauxhall Tavern in London

11 August 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon appétit, London Reading Time:  7 minutes

© flickr.com - Ewan Munro/cc-by-sa-2.0

© flickr.com – Ewan Munro/cc-by-sa-2.0

The Royal Vauxhall Tavern is a Grade II listed queer entertainment venue in Vauxhall, London. It is also known as the RVT. It is South London’s oldest surviving queer venue.   read more…

Gay Museum in Berlin

13 September 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Berlin, Museums, Exhibitions Reading Time:  6 minutes

© KimSchneider/cc-by-sa-4.0

© KimSchneider/cc-by-sa-4.0

The Schwules Museum (English: Gay Museum) in Berlin, Germany, is a museum and research centre with collections focusing on LGBTQ+ history and culture. It opened in 1985 and it was the first museum in the world dedicated to gay history.   read more…

Pride Month

1 June 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Berlin, French Riviera, Greater Los Angeles Area, Hamburg, London, Miami / South Florida, New York City, Paris / Île-de-France, San Francisco Bay Area Reading Time:  9 minutes

2018 San Francisco Pride Parade down Market Street © Samuel Wantman/cc-by-sa-4.0

2018 San Francisco Pride Parade down Market Street © Samuel Wantman/cc-by-sa-4.0

LGBT Pride Month is a month, typically June, dedicated to celebration and commemoration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) pride. Pride Month began after the Stonewall riots, a series of gay liberation protests in 1969, and has since spread outside of the United States. Modern-day Pride Month both honors the movement for LGBT rights and celebrates LGBT culture.   read more…

Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire

9 March 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

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© Ambrose113/cc-by-sa-4.0

Hebden Bridge is a market town in the Calderdale district of West Yorkshire, England. It is in the Upper Calder Valley, 8 miles (13 km) west of Halifax and 14 miles (21 km) north-east of Rochdale, at the confluence of the River Calder and the Hebden Water. The town is the largest settlement in the civil parish of Hebden Royd.   read more…

Tel Aviv Promenade and Charles Clore Park

15 July 2023 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Union for the Mediterranean Reading Time:  10 minutes

Promenade © Dalia3177/cc-by-sa-3.0

Promenade © Dalia3177/cc-by-sa-3.0

TEL AVIV PROMENADE
Tel Aviv Promenade (commonly referred to as “The Promenade”) runs along the Mediterranean seashore in Tel Aviv, Israel. In the late 1930s, the city council decided to build a promenade for separation between bathing areas and hiking or promenading paths. It extended from Bograshov Beach to where Jerusalem (formerly Geula) Beach is located now. The introduction of the promenade was a turning point in common perception of the city’s coastline. In 2011, the municipality of Tel Aviv restored and renovated the promenade, and today it runs from the port of Tel Aviv to the port of Jaffa. Today’s sections are:   read more…

Freetown Christiania in Copenhagen

14 July 2023 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  8 minutes

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© Schorle/cc-by-sa-4.0

Freetown Christiania, also known as Christiania (Danish: Fristaden Christiania), is an intentional community, commune and micronation in the Christianshavn neighbourhood of the Danish capital city of Copenhagen. It began in 1971 as a squatted military base. Its Pusher Street is famous for its open trade of cannabis, which is illegal in Denmark. Christiania is considered to be the fourth largest tourist attraction in Copenhagen, with half a million visitors annually.   read more…

Schöneberg in Berlin

11 July 2023 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Berlin Reading Time:  16 minutes

Metro station Nollendorfplatz, the gate to the traditional LGBTQ/Rainbow neighborhood © Babewyn/cc-by-sa-4.0

Metro station Nollendorfplatz, the gate to the traditional LGBTQ/Rainbow neighborhood © Babewyn/cc-by-sa-4.0

Schöneberg is a locality of Berlin, Germany. Until Berlin’s 2001 administrative reform it was a separate borough including the locality of Friedenau. Together with the former borough of Tempelhof it is now part of the new borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg. The locality of Schöneberg includes the neighborhoods (Stadtquartiere) of Bayerisches Viertel (English: “Bavarian Quarter”), an affluent residential area with streets named after Bavarian towns) and the Rote Insel (English: “Red Island”) as well as Lindenhof and the large natural park area Südgelände (English: “south grounds”) on the outside of the Ringbahn railway circle line.   read more…

Stonewall Inn in New York City

26 June 2023 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, New York City Reading Time:  7 minutes

© ThePhotoCat/cc-by-sa-4.0

© ThePhotoCat/cc-by-sa-4.0

The Stonewall Inn, often shortened to Stonewall, is a gay bar and recreational tavern in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City, and the site of the Stonewall riots of 1969, which is widely considered to be the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States.   read more…

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