Durban View Gay Guesthouse

Hey guys - this is Durban - the warmest place to be in sunny South Africa on the east coast..

It's where our exclusively gay guesthouse and backpackers is situate right here in the heart of Durban ... the warm friendly city where gay is good.

So come visit and enjoy gay life in our part of South Africa.

Durban View Guesthouse welcomes visitors from around the world and we've already made some great new friends. Your hosts are Dave and Llewellyn.

See links to our site for bookings and enquiries else where on this blog or click here.

Your hosts Dave and Llewellyn

                  Ty Nell at Durban View Guesthouse

Happy times

The guesthouse was the scene of an engagement last night.. not ours, but friends of my daughter's and we took the opportunity for a happy snap of ourselves in the Guesthouse Pub as we waited for Steve to pop the question to Andy on the rooftop.

40 in Russia

Although we have been back in Durban for almost a month, there is still some catch-up I have to do to show you where we went and what we did for Llewellyn's 40th birthday in Russia. Visas were difficult to come by but if you booked an excursion through the ship we could get a blanket visa for Russia. Conveniently they had a trip to the Russian gay nightclub "Central Station" in St.Petersburg the night of the 1st August so we could party away the last of his 39 years and into his 40th.

So here's some pics of Llewellyn with the hot bois in Russia where we drank vodka, and danced in the steamy heat of Central Station along with over 500 guys from the ship who did the Russian nightclub with us. And was it hot!! not only were the bois hot, but they were having a min-heatwave in St.Petersberg and no place there seems to have airconditioning, so everyone just had to take their shirts off...ha ha..mmm

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Llewellyn catches the sunset on the eve of his birthday

Dancing in Central Station nightclub in St.Petersburg, Russia

Even the DJ seemed to come from South Africa

The hot bois made sure the eye candy was good while we danced

Sunday chilling

Hey it's just me chilling on Sunday - check out more on Dave's blog here.

Back in Durban after Amsterdam Pride

We sailed into Amsterdam on Saturday in time for the 2010 Gay Pride Canal Parade which attracted 400 000 spectators despite the slight rain. It started with a warm welcome at the dockside and ocean terminal as we stepped off the "Eurodam" after a whirlwind cruise of the Baltic with 1500 gay guys, then an interview screened on Dutch TV that night, the spectacular canal parage through the main canals of Amsterdam and awesome parties in the streets of the city.

Even the street barmen were hot and willing to wave the flag for us.

The rights of gay Africa were represented for the first time in the canal parade.

More than 40 floats took part in the parade in intermittant rain.

Street artists claimed their share of the action too.

The hot "kissing boys" did not need to decorate their float too much - just add skin!

Even the Police were represented at Gay Pride... with a helmet..

And Dave admires the boobs... lol

Dave and Llewellyn take every opportunity to show the South Africans were there.

Flags and balloons greeted the "Eurodam" at the dockside in Amsterdam on the morning of arrival for Gay Pride 2010 and we showed them our Pride.

Birthday and Building

Dave's Birthday was largely spent this year supervising the builders making the alterations to the Guesthouse for the patio deck.

Llewellyn took the day off work too and raced around with Dave taking cake to the office, fetching artwork Dave put together for the office renovations as well as onsite meeetings with the builder, the steel guy, the electrician and engineer.

There was time to fit in a Long Island Iced Tea made famous in Durban by Billy the Bums and roast a Beef roll to take to Hillcrest to enjoy with mom, Lynn and the kids along with Llewellyn's fine cake he baked for Dave.

Sunrise

We woke up this morning to a beautiful sunrise... seen here from our bedroom window, looking past our guest City View room to the east and the Indian Ocean. We thought we must capture this 6am setting, trying hard to imagine that it is already 4pm the same day in Auckland and that we will be flying out tomorrow for 2 glorious weeks in Sydney and Auckland... will be posting some holiday snaps here.

Dave's new website

Hey the exciting news is that Dave has his first Billboard up and on display in Durban. The board at the intersection of Argyle and Umgeni Roads showcases his new website BookNow.biz which launched recently. This enables one to book a table at a restaurant, guesthouse room, doctor's appointment etc ONLINE. The website is gathering steam and if you have a business to list, go ahead and logon and register. It's FREE but for a Premium listing or to use the booking module, a nominal fee of R350 per annum applies.

Hair today

We were up in Johannesburg for the weekend and just for a laugh I decided to have a little hairstyle change... or should I say a drastic change. Never done this before, but I was thinking that no one else would have some genuine grey hair around the sides to contrast with the mohawk... at least everyone at the office had a good laugh today.

4th Christmas together

Earlier this month we celebrated our 3rd Anniversary and Christmas next week will be our 4th one together. Here's a photo I took of Llewellyn with our Christmas tree in the Guesthouse lounge. Happy Holidays all. The Guesthouse will be full next week in the run up to New Year.