So upon returning to Europe, we decided to settle in the place where Stefan is originally from: Cyprus! We still travel most of the year, but instead of big trips, we prefer to do smaller trips that still allow us to see a place in detail, but to stay there long enough so we get a rich experience. Ironically, after almost 5 years of non-stop travelling, we realised we craved a more permanent home base again! We also needed to invest time in Nomadic Boys and elevate our content. We also collaborate with hotel brands, tourism boards and speak at conferences to promote gay travel. We always aim to seek out and support local LGBTQ businesses, which is particularly important in countries with anti-gay laws. Our blog served as a way to answer these concerns and inspire gay travellers.įor every place we visit, we like to make local gay friends to experience the culture and gay scene from their perspective. Gay travellers were seeking out advice about where it's safe to stay, where they can go out, is it safe to be gay in that place and other general safety tips. As a result, we started getting more and more interest, especially from our LGBTQ community. When we set off for Asia in 2014, we started writing about the different gay scenes of each place we visited and published interviews with locals about what it's like growing up gay in their country.
By this point, our gay travel blog Nomadic Boys was starting to generate a bit of income, so we decided to make the jump and transition fully to digital nomadic full-time travel bloggers! Neither of us wanted to go back to what we were doing before. We used this as an opportunity to think about our future and decide whether we were to return to our old lives/jobs in London or continue our dream of travelling around the world. We tasted many surprising and interesting foods like balut in the Philippines, fried insects at the Bug Cafe in Siem Reap in Cambodia and airag with Mongolian nomads in the Gobi Desert.Īt the end of our trip in Asia, we returned to Europe for a few months to visit our friends and families. We learned about new cultures we knew nothing about before, discovered local gay scenes we didn't even know existed ( Ulaanbaatar has one sole gay bar you need to check out!) and made a lot of fabulous friends across the entire region. This trip completely changed our lives and perspective of the world.