10 Tips to Hook Up During the Olympics

By Flagging Headquarters TNT UK has reprinted our TNT Downunder interview in an article called Flagging all over the world along with a guest article by Atlas Al and The Hunger, Your Olympic...

“Flagging: Your guide to shagging your way around the world”

By Flagging Headquarters TNT Downunder editor, Tom Sturrock, and The Hunger recently talked about some of the finer points of the backpacking subculture, and of course our latest book, Destination...

“Sexual Conquests on a Global Scale”

By Flagging Headquarters The Flying Pig, one of the most famous hostels in the world and a member of the Europe’s Famous Hostels network, has just written a great article called “Sexual Conquests...

Destination Foreignication: The Field Guide for Flaggers goes on sale today!

By Atlas Al & The Hunger Destination Foreignication is a comprehensive travel guide to hooking up abroad. It’s the one you wished you had gotten for your 21st birthday instead of a Lonely Planet....

The Exotic Factor

By Flagging Headquarters Here’s an excerpt from our upcoming book, Destination Foreignication, a fun 278-page shortcut to hooking up abroad that every backpacker should read before starting their...

Flagging Guide Coming Soon!

Flag Ratios

By Atlas Al I wanted to interview my friend Jose for a long time. Over a year ago we we’re talking about where we came from. What piqued my interest was how he described his background; he...

The Final Stages of Operation Sigma

By Atlas Al Although we’re still taking a short break from the flagosphere/blogosphere, I just wanted to keep you posted with our most ambitious project yet… Operation Σ. We’ve hinted at Operation...

Atlas Al Starts Airline

By Flagging Headquarters Atlas Al of Flagging Headquarters has started his own airline. Atlas Airlines aims to be the premier budget airline in the world. Amidst an already competitive airline...

WTF Alanya

Memoirs of an Ex Trolly Dolly (Part 2)

Welcome jo-jo, our first guest writer. Click here to read Memoirs of an Ex Trolly Dolly (Part 1). Everybody decided to leave boring work stuff discussions and move into more interesting topics like...

Club Hollywood Interview

By Flagging Headquarters Atlas Al and The Hunger are currently in the Eastern Med hitting the best party spots. We met with Selçuk, the Bar Manager at Club Hollywood in Alanya, Turkey, to find out...

Couchsurfing vs AirBnB

By The Hunger Too poor for 5-star hotels, too old for hostels and tired of the dogma from the Couchsurfing cult – it was time for a change. On a recent trip to Berlin I thought I would try...

Memoirs of an Ex Trolly Dolly (Part 1)

jo-jo is a guest writer from our social networking site, Wave That Flag. Welcome to the wonderful world of aviation, where pilots and flight attendants come together to deliver only the finest...

Constitution of Flagging Explained

By Atlas Al So you wanna go flagging huh? Hooking up with foreigners is fun, but there’s more to claiming flags than you think. Before we could launch Wave That Flag, The Hunger and I needed to...

5 Tips for Dating Foreigners

By The Hunger Dating Foreigners, I love it. It’s my opinion that the best way to know a nation is to date a citizen of that nation. Whilst living abroad, learning the language and befriending the...

Wave That Flag Welcomes South Sudan as World’s Newest Captureable Flag

By Flagging Headquarters Wave That Flag launched July 14, 2011, the same day South Sudan became a United Nations member state. Before any changes were made to the homepage flag map, South Sudan had...

My Flags

By Atlas Al In the past few months, a number of bloggers have written posts about which flags they have. Six weeks ago, Naughty Nomad told us he’s captured an impressive 40 Flags. Other bloggers...

South Sudan Flag

By Atlas Al If you haven’t already heard about the world’s youngest country, Flagging Headquarters brings the news to you. According to the July 14, 2011 article on CNN.com, South Sudan becomes...

(Hot) Girls and Hostels

By The Hunger Recently I wrote a guest post for SingleDudeTravel.com. As the name suggests, SDT is the “Definitive single men’s guide to travel and lifestyle.” (Hot) Girls and Hostels is a travel...

DESTINATION FOREIGNICATION: New Social Networking site, Wave That Flag set to launch

By Flagging Headquarters After months of careful planning, online niche social network, Wave That Flag, launched today. Atlas Al and The Hunger started Flagging Headquarters in October 2009 as a...

Frame-of-Mind Theory, Your Flag’s In Your Head

By Atlas Al Frame-of-Mind Theory As per the Constitution of Flagging, our definition of Frame-of-Mind Theory is… “Used to determine the nationality/flag of a person. One’s family background,...

Charlie Sheen Captures Flagging Hat-Trick

By The Hunger New Flash: Charlie Sheen celebrated his newly single status in pure Charlie Sheen fashion. It was reported by TMZ that “Charlie’s penis celebrated the split by declaring war on the...

If You’re Hungry, Turkey Is Where It’s At

By Atlas Al Recently, The Hunger and I mentioned we’ll be in Turkey, Cyprus, and Greece (but mostly Turkey) starting August 8 till September 12. We thought Turkey would be great for a vacation...

FLAGGING Travel Game Wants to Know: What Are Women Like “Over There?”

By Flagging Headquarters Atlas Al and The Hunger will launch a new web site on July 14, 2011 with a single question in mind: what are women like “over there?” WaveThatFlag.com will be a social...

10 Ways the Middle East Improves Your Game

By The Hunger One of my biggest worries before coming to Saudi Arabia was that I was going to be a bumbling idiot around women when I re-joined society 9 months later. I have seen firsthand what...

Who Is Atlas Al and The Hunger

By Atlas Al People always ask us how we got our names, what the origins are. For more detailed information, check out our Flagging Info page. For just a quickie, keep reading… Who Is Atlas Al I was...

Filipino Flags, I Finally Get It

By The Hunger Last weekend was epic. I got my first Filipino Flag as well as my first Asian flag along the way. I also realized that I’m a few flags behind the eight-ball when it comes to Asian...

Palestine, Loophole Flag

By Atlas Al Whether you observe… Nakba Day: “Day of the catastrophe,” marking the day hundreds of thousands of Palestinians became displaced during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, moving from their...

YOU are a Flagger

By Atlas Al Everyone is a Flagger, yet few know they are. I was working on installing Flagging Headquarters’s new tri-column WordPress theme when one of my Swedish friends, Emi, sits down. “Still...