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Gay Travel After Sixty
A Compasserie guide to travelling superbly in your sixties and beyond, with everything nobody tells you.
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Researched and verified September 2026, against official or primary sources.
How it begins
There is a version of the travel conversation, aimed at men our age, that is essentially a list of things to be careful about. This is not that book, because that framing gets the situation exactly backwards. The reason to be strategic about travel in your sixties is not that you are fragile. It is that your trips are now good enough to be worth protecting.
Gay Travel After Sixty, chapter one
What is inside
13 chapters. This is all of them.
The whole table of contents, not a selection of the flattering parts.
- The Best Travelling Years of Your Life
- Choosing Destinations That Reward You
- The Flight: Seats, Timing, and Arriving Well
- Where to Stay: Lifts, Bathrooms, and the Questions to Ask
- Pacing: The One Great Sight a Day Rule
- Medication, Prescriptions, and Crossing Borders With Them
- Travel Insurance After Sixty, Honestly
- Knees, Hips, Backs, and Cobblestones
- Eating and Drinking Well Without Paying for It Later
- Travelling Solo, Travelling as a Couple, Travelling With Friends
- Feeling Safe, Feeling at Home
- Your Pre-Trip Checklist
- Resources and Booking
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Three lines from the checklist
Specific, or it is not worth your money.
The last working chapter of every guide is a checklist. Three of its lines, quoted exactly, as verified September 2026:
- Your first night's accommodation booked from the night before your flight arrives if you land early in the morning, so that a room is genuinely waiting rather than theoretically available at three in the afternoon.
- Travel insurance bought on the day you book rather than the week you fly, with pre-existing conditions declared and the policy number stored somewhere you can reach without a working phone.
- The lift question asked directly of the hotel, along with what floor the room is on and whether the bathroom has a step into the shower. Assume nothing from photographs.
Quoted from the edition on sale today. Fares, opening hours, and entry rules move, which is why the book names the authority to confirm each one with and the month it was checked. If one of these has gone out of date, tell us at hello@compasserie.com and the edition gets corrected and reissued.
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