Guesthouse Heritage Day braai

Heritage Day is becoming known as our national braai day, and our mates made sure we did just that, enjoying plenty of drinks, great food - especially the bake-contest Marc and Dave were embroiled in, each showing off their baking course skills. Yummy all round and good friends!!

The lunch-time braai was of course preceded by beer-drinking at the Shongweni Farmers' Market where we arrived at opening time for the first beers out of the draft dispensers at the Standeaven Brewery which opened recently in the area....

Beautiful beers from Standeaven.. or stand-not-so-eaven afterwards

Dave quaffs down a Black Gold beer

Cheers to Llewellyn

Shooters all round!

Marc is the cellphone addict of the group.

Hot Happening at the Guesthouse this long weekend

It’s hot and happening in Durban this long-weekend – yes Tuesday 24^th Sept is a public holiday so we’re offering a special deal to encourage you to take Monday off…

Book for any 3 nights over the period Fri 20^th – Tues 24^th Sept paying our single rate of R580 per night and your partner or toyboy stays FREE. The deal includes breakfast . And then the following weekend, it a ...

FRI 27 SEPT DRAG PARTY - FaceBook event

It’s fabulous, famous, Ezra’s DRAG bash at the Guesthouse, so provided you’re dressed in drag you’re welcome to join the party. For those less adventurous, just come and enjoy Durban’s warm weather and hospitality. (Normal rates apply for the Drag weekend) 

Book your room if we still have space through Llewellyn on durbanview@gmail.com or Dave on 0837033329.

Come have some fun and play in Durban!

 

Fun with mates

A night flight to Margate for dinner with mates on Saturday was the mission for the weekend, especially as we got stuck there after an electrical fault and had to spend the night, getting the fault fixed on Saturday. The amazing Burlesque restaurant was well worth the visit with beautiful and tasty food and lovely décor.

Our 2 planes ZDL and SAA - getting ready for the flight as the sun sets over Durban

Margaritas all round (not before the flight ha ha)

Pizzas and Margaritas for Marc and Ian

Warren's Birthday bash at the Guesthouse

Happy Birthday Warren.. great party. You just kept us going to 2am!!
 

Gay Singer in Durban 11 December

Durban is set to host gay country singer Steve Grand on the 11th December. Watch this space for ticket booking details.

 

It's going to be a sellout.  In the meantime ensure you have secured a place at the guesthouse for your accommodation.

 

And if you haven't watched Steve's amazing music video "All-American Boy" check it out here via the YouTube link. The video ends with him having a bit of fun with his mate naked in the lake.

 

Beer Weekend

Shaun Standeaven makes the beer!

We've discovered a new craft micro-brewery near here and with a group of 10, they will do a tour of the brewery and let us taste more of the fine stuff...mmm. They also have a weekly stand at the local Saturday Farmers' Market and friends Marc, Lee, Llew and I went for a morning beer for breakfast this morning. So let's get a group together, say September and do the beer thing. I really enjoyed the Cranberry and the Blueberry flavoured beer but for the traditionalists the pilseners and ales as well as the dark stout were all exceptionally good.

Having a taste of the good stuff at the farmers' market

Sexy Hot Bodz

I'm not sure if you guys know, but I run a linked blog Hot Bodz and here's some of the sexiest hot bodz I have found! The latest one is real HOT!

It's a party

The fabulous weather we've been having in Durban has been swept away this weekend by the light rain and cooler conditions the Cape have sent us... but nothing that a few drinks can't solve.

Welcome to the Guesthouse our guests from France Herve and Bradon (right), Marius from Johannesburg (centre), Dave from Underberg (left) and Durban friend JP (second from left). Great to have you guys with us and looking forward to relaxing over this long weekend. Enjoy!

Book Now for our Special this weekend

 

It's a public holiday this Friday so that means holiday time from Thursday and we're making it a sweet deal, with your 3rd night free.

 

So either come stay from Thursday night and stay for the 3 nights, or come Friday and leave Monday. The weather's hot in Durban and the house is waiting for your booking. Either book online now following the link here, or phone me on 083-7033329, or email Llewellyn on durbanview@gmail.com  It's gona be a hot weekend!

Cooking up a storm

Fede and Josh have been moel guests cooking up a storm for us on a few occasions during their 7 week stay over the International Film Festival in Durban. We're going to be sorry to see you guys go back to Boston!!! We really loved your stay.

 

Fede with Dave's daughter Kate-Lynn showing her how to make mushroom risotto the real Italian way

Josh tucks in to the home-breaded chicken

A Taste of Durban

The Durban food and wine festival a Taste of Durban has been running for a few days and seen out and about are friends Judith and Collette, Ian, Marc and Lee and Llewellyn and myself.

Judith, Lee, Colette and Llewellyn

Great idea, great Durban winter weather and good food and wine!!
 

Barry visits

Guesthouse co-owner Dave welcomes Barry to the guesthouse - a chance to get away from the rat-race and come and soak up some of Durban's glorious winter weather. Especially the warm rooftop Jacuzzi at night where Barry spent most of his quiet time.

 

More restaurants a walk away

At the Spar Shopping Centre about 300m from the guesthouse are two of Durban's great restaurants - 9th Avenue Bistro, possibly Durban's finest fine dining restaurants, and Green Mango which receives rave reviews for it's Thai cuisine. Joops Place is also famous for it's Dutch steaks.

 

Sunday Air

With the Durban Airshow on Saturday our plane was stuck in the hangar with tents and stands outside, but fortunately the clean-up was quick. By this morning most was clear again and we hoped to take out our plane to pump up the tyres and go for a quick flight. The tyres part turned out to be more daunting than imagined and I really can't see how you can unscrew the cap off the valve without taking the wheelspats right off. So instead we did a quick touch-and-go at King Shaka International slipping in behind an SAA airbus. That satisfied the need for some air for the day.

 

Durban coastline on the way home from King Shaka Airport

Margaritas with best friends

Guesthouse co-owners/partners Llewellyn and Dave, with Ian and Marc

We take turns perfecting our recipes for Margaritas and the more we drink the better they get ha ha.

Durban July Winners

We had an awesome few hours at the Durban July races yesterday.. waited especially for the 13th race.. after the horses have run, about 50-100 guys climb over the rails and line up for a 100m naked race to the finish. Pretty hot! I took a video clip again but with my iphone this year was not able to zoom, so it was not the best video I have made. Here's the link to the 2013 video clip.

 

Fede and Josh excell

Josh from the States and Federico from Spain have decided they can get married at last after a USA Court decision that now recognises state laws for immigration purposes. Thus if a non-citizen marries a citizen in a state where marriage is legal (eg Massachusetts where Josh comes from), then Fede will be able to get his green card, whereas before the federal immigration laws did not recognise the gay marriage at federal level.

 

Here they show us their Italian cooking skills with a spread of roquefort gnocci for mains and parma ham starters as we party it up with guests ahead of the July Handicap races which take place today.

 

Josh and Fede are staying with us at the guesthouse for a few weeks

Festive Durban July

South Africa's premier horseracing and fashion event takes place this Saturday, a few steps down the road from the guesthouse.

The fashion theme for the event is POSH! Oh my GOSH! - so it's a chance to dress up (and dress down..see below) and have a ball (or 2).

Not to be missed is the annual 13th race, which takes place after the last of the 12 horse races. This is probably the most watched event as up to 200 hunky guys take off their clothes at the 100m mark and do a starkers dash to the finish line... some even run back again whilst others put their jocks back on and return for their clothes. Check out the YouTube video clip of last years race here.



Pic from the video taken at the finishline last year