We had never thought to do this beforehand. When we were travelling in Russia on the Trans Siberian railway, visiting places like Yekaterinburg and Irkutsk where there are no gay hangouts, our friends told us that we needed a Grindr profile to get the local ‘word' on what's happening. However, when travelling to a country outside this pink bubble, we found that Grindr literally “became” the gay scene, and was more an important way of finding out about any underground gay parties happening as well as connecting with LGBTQ locals. we've left out obvious ones like the Calculator, Camera, Contacts, Torch, Alarm clock apps.įor most of us living in western Europe and North America where there is a very developed LGBTQ scene, and being gay is legal and very much accepted by society, Grindr is mainly used as a dating app for fun encouters.we've included the non-gay-specific apps that have become such an important part of our travels that without them, this list feels incomplete!.Whilst we appreciate this has made us lazier (that conversion of Indian rupees to dollars, forget doing it in your head, just whip out the smartphone and voila!), it's also made us more efficient with both time and how we spend our money.Īfter many years of travelling all around the world, we've put together our top favourite gay travel apps we love using and have become so dependant on. In this day and age, our iPhones have pretty much become our main go-to-item for almost everything, with apps to cover all the things above, and more.
When it came to travelling, we simply had a Lonely Planet guide, a compass (for the geeks amongst us), an alarm clock on our wristwatch, a walkman with a few spare cassette tapes, those old-style cameras and a few spare negatives… (and naturally, plenty of spare condoms/lube, let's not leave out the essentials!)
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Since we began travelling in our more (ahem!) junior years, smartphones didn't even exist…Cue our elder Millennial lecture about the good old days…īack then, the Internet was limited to email, ICQ and Windows Live Messenger. Which are your favourite gay apps for travelling boys?