Paperback
Gay Europe
Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Berlin and London, six complete guides in one volume.
Travel well, and be welcome.
Guides for gay men over fifty: where to stay, where you are welcome, and what to do before you land.
Pictured: the Alps, Kruger National Park, the Douro Valley and Bangkok.
In paperback and hardcover
The guides, in your hands.
Six collections and two city guides in print, four in hardcover. Printed and shipped by Amazon.
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Paperback
Gay Asia
Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Seoul, Taipei and Bangkok, six complete guides in one volume.
Paperback and Hardcover
Gay Latin America and the Caribbean
Puerto Vallarta, Rio de Janeiro, Medellin, Mexico City and Cartagena, five cities in one volume.
What is inside
Paperback and Hardcover
Gay Retire Abroad: Latin America
Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Uruguay, for the man deciding where to live next.
What is insideThe library
47 guides, written one city at a time.
Cities, regions, and the practical business of retiring abroad. Every one of them for the same reader.
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Gay Madrid
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Gay Retire Abroad: Portugal
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Gay Palm Springs
Kindle United States -
Gay Travel After Sixty
Kindle Traveling well -
Gay Barcelona
Kindle Europe -
Gay Medellin
Paperback and Kindle Latin America -
Gay Puerto Vallarta
Kindle Mexico -
Gay Fort Lauderdale
Kindle United States -
Gay Tokyo
Kindle Asia -
Gay Retire Abroad: Spain
Kindle Retire abroad -
Traveling Solo
Kindle Traveling well -
Gay Lisbon
Kindle Europe -
Gay Cartagena
Kindle Latin America -
Gay Mexico City
Kindle Mexico
The house
A guide should know who it is talking to.
Most travel writing addresses a couple in their thirties with a high tolerance for noise and stairs. Compasserie does not. Every guide is written for one reader: the gay man over fifty who wants comfort, welcome, and an unhurried week.
That means the neighborhoods where you will sleep well, not the ones with the loudest bar. The table worth booking. The walk that is actually flat. And the part no glossy guide prints: how welcome you are in that country, in law and in practice, stated plainly and dated, so you can decide for yourself.
The question is never whether a place is beautiful. It is whether you can relax there.
The Compasserie standard
The Travel Desk
When you would rather someone else got it right.
The same research the guides are built on, pointed at one week, for one party, for men travelling alone, for two men travelling together, and for small groups of friends.
Tell us where.
The place, the month, who is travelling, and how far you want to walk in a day.
We build the week.
Day by day. Welcome checked against the authority that decides it, rooms shortlisted with reasons, the tables worth holding held.
Someone answers.
While you are away, one person already knows your plan if it changes.
No obligation and no automated reply. Most notes are answered within two working days.
The films
The same eye, moving.
Compasserie is a film channel as well as a press. The guides and the films are made from the same research and the same standard: no rushing, no shouting, and no pretending a place is something it is not.
Stay current
When something in a guide stops being true, you will know.
Entry rules change, a museum moves its free hours, a neighborhood changes character. When that happens in a guide you are relying on, we correct the edition and we write to tell you. You will also hear when a new city goes up. That is the whole list.
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