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Well, earlier than 2019 -some years before - there were lots of great looking young Cubans with fit bodies. Many of them found older admirers and got exit visas for Spain. (And as is the way of the world, several young men left their older admirers after 3 years ie once they had established residency rights in Spain)

Maybe the shutdown of Brazil and Spain is causing memories of my prior prowling grounds to flood back ... In one of the Moroccan beach towns, a guy stood atop a sand dune and waved his dick at me. Right out in the open. He was about 50-75 feet away, and there must have been scores, including children and burqa'd women, who could have seen him had they paid attention. Not my type, but I couldn't help but glare right back, slack-jawed, as the situation was so outrageous. THAT was straight out of Cadinot. In another beach town, I tangled with two construction workers in the bushes next to their site. They lost interest when I wouldn't let them bugger me. As I said, the thrill of the chase usually exceeded that of any capture.

I did take up the offer from the boy on the train. To tell the truth, I closed my eyes in his house that night half-wondering whether I'd wake up alive. When I did, however, all my fear was gone, and I enjoyed 3 days being welcomed by his family and friends and getting to see how working class Fassis (people from Fez) lived. They were nice, good-looking guys only a few years younger than I was, but I wasn't on that wavelength with them and there was no hanky panky. Morocco tested my ability to assess human nature with every single person I met. The good were very good, the bad pretty bad. Looking back, I realize that the shamsters were not hard to spot (they're not good liars and cannot disguise their pushiness) and the hustlers (which means commission grabbers in this context) wouldn't have ripped me off that much. It sounds wise for you to have resisted your boy on the train - he was way too pushy, too fast. I assessed the guy I met for hours while we were on the train. I explicitly asked him if I would have to pay. He looked mildly offended but gave me a clear no. It seemed the unspoken rule was the hustlers and shysters would not directly break their word, so you have to ask bluntly.

It was meant to come off as humour for those among us familiar with the environment. I am no closer, compared to six months ago, as to guessing where my first voyage of the decade will take me: Spain, Switzerland, Dominican Republic, or Brazil.

Most of the better looking guys have escaped to europe (spain).

From Bangkok Post HANOI: As an LGBTQ activist, legal whizz-kid and Vietnam's first openly gay candidate running for a seat in its rubber-stamp parliament, Luong The Huy is determined to lead long-lasting change for the country's marginalised communities. Huy, 32, is one of just nine independent candidates running for Vietnam's National Assembly in elections to be held across the country on Sunday and wants to boost the voices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, who have long felt discrimination. But getting his name on the ballot in the communist, one-party state was no simple task. At the last elections five years ago, more than 100 independent candidates -- including dissidents, a taxi driver and a pop star -- tried to run, but just a handful made it through the gruelling selection process. Now that he's made it this far, he's clear about what he wants to achieve. "I want people's voices to be heard," Huy told AFP, sitting in his Hanoi office beside a framed poster bearing the slogan "Human rights are for everyone". Huy, who is currently director of Vietnamese NGO iSEE, which aims to empower minority groups to protect and promote their rights, has been campaigning for a decade to improve the lives of the Vietnamese LGBTQ community. He once addressed a session of the UN Human Rights Council and was listed by Forbes as one of the 30 most inspiring people under the age of 30 in Vietnam. But despite studying law -- Huy got a scholarship from the US's Fulbright Program to study at the University of California -- he says he has struggled to bring policy to the people who matter in Vietnam's opaque governmental system. "If I'm a member of the National Assembly, that path will be shorter, easier and more convenient for the community groups we serve," he said. Vietnam is seen as relatively progressive on LGBTQ issues compared with some other countries in Asia. But although the country lifted its ban on same-sex marriage in 2015, it stopped short of full legal recognition for those unions, and a long-promised transgender law to allow legal gender changes has not yet materialised. In schools, misinformation about sexual orientation and gender identity is widespread and some children are taught by both teachers and parents that being gay is a mental illness, according to a Human Rights Watch report published last year. Continues at https://www.bangkokpost.com/life/social-and-lifestyle/2119567/vietnams-first-openly-gay-candidate-seeks-change-with-parliament-run

So sad for Venezuelans...I see on news reports some have made it to the US from Mexico...I don't know why we don't give them legal refugee status like Cubans.

we talked to other people sitting with us

I have 2 French friends who live some way outside Montpellier, but visit the city often. May I ask where this happened so I can warn them to be careful? When I was young, I worked on a gay advice hotline. The advice after a mugging was that you should straightaway write down in detail what happened. Over time, you may remember more details and can add them to your report. And I’d encourage you to work with the police. It will help you regain agency and you may prevent this happening to other people.

Well, regardless of their intention, id give credit when its due. I dont care if its china or israel or russia or even vatican city, if they want their citizen overseas to be vaccinated or being prioritized, especially in a developing country that are struggling themselves, making a vaccine donation is the way to make the country more willing to help your own citizen there.

This is how u should do it. If u want your citizen overseas to be taken care of, make some vaccine donation!

Wow, did 11 months fly or what! Thermas has just re-opened. I believe the only stipulation is mask-wearing, but we all know by now what that actually means in practice. The current probability of minimally 1 active novel coronavirus infection among 50 persons openly circulating there is roughly 10-20%. Open a window.

First day bars were open. Was walking home. A guy stands in front of me with a knife and demands my phone and my wallet. Drunk me tried to punch him at which point a guy behind me punched me in the back. The the two of them started kicking me while I was down. A neighbor heard the noise and came out at which point the two guys grabbed my phone - which had all my cards in it - and ran off. Welcome to life after lockdown.

Got mugged Wednesdqy then on Friday my computer died Was able to get a loan to have a cheap ass laptop delivered here. It aint great b ut it gets the job done

Looks like the wait for expats to get the jab in Thailand will take a little longer, due to the amount of vaccine in the country.

Anybody who thinks that this is about China taking care of its citizens is delusional.