I would like to take this opportunity to let you know that I will be starting the interest group Flying Travel Lovers with Fuck You Attitude. Nothing flygskam, which I think of as an IKEA comb to sweep dead flies out of the screen door. I call our club not VRMFYA but Hermes, after the Greek God of borders, roads and travelers, thieves, athletes, shepherds, trade, speed, cunning and humor. While Hermes also sounds a bit like a gay sauna, that’s how I got the idea. Excuse me? I explain. Everyone has a club these days. Bloggers with burnout, club. Horses afraid of women’s circles, club. And the very best, as I watched Canal Pride from my couch this summer…the club of nonmonogamists. Yes, feel free to read that again. Champagne Anyway, I’m watching the annual boat parade with a cup of coffee and suddenly it was said by the presenters that ‘the next boat is for the non-monogamists, a growing community of people who don’t want to be monogamous.’ He estimated the number of adherents at 8,000, and I immediately put it at 11 million. Nothing coffee, champagne! I immediately went to download Tinder. When I woke up the next afternoon with only 3 empty bottles of bubbles, I thought I had dreamed it. But no, it exists. It’s a little tricky Googling when your partner is watching, so I did for you. For example, “The mermaids” is called one community. So yes, it exists. Exhausted with cheating compulsion, also a club. Or am I now too strict, too old-fashioned, too Generation X? Can’t they just go to the Van der Valk Vianen and take care of things there instead of joining the Canal Pride. That surprised me the most. Using such an important event for this message of polygamy. You can, go crazy, also go through life very happily as a single person.My choice would not have been. But let me not interfere further. Everyone is allowed a club, it is a, kind of, free country. So do we So do we! A club for travel junkies, flight nerds, adventurers, culture and knowledge changers and global gourmands! Just enjoy flying abroad. Don’t start groveling about that you do do Co2 offsets, or say at work that you are going to hike to Santiago de Compostela, while going surfing in Bali. Nothing keeping that ticket New York quiet because you also want to take your kids to the Yankees, the theater and MoMa. Want to travel to South America for three months as a student? Just do it! Hasta Tardes. To London by train at Christmas (that too is allowed) and then three weeks later on a fantastic trip to Southern Africa. Good for you! Air travel has brought humanity so much more than its current image suggests. At Interest Association Hermes, we don’t do that. No explanations, no excuses, no shame. You may also just “like” flying. Yes really. A world without airplanes is like a new housing development in November without a cafe. Not at Hermes, where we do love a foreign drink by the sea on occasion. Our slogan is ‘Futue te Ipsum’ and everyone is welcome, even if you come by train, bus, scooting or hopscotch.
