Hot Durban

Hot boys in Durban there are, but this is clearly not our beach here.. we have white sandy beaches, so good bod, but not local. Will have to show you some more local beach shots.. the season is hotting up so surfs up!

Long weekend in Durban

It was beach, jacuzzi and pool weather in Durban this weekend. Having fun in the Guesthouse hot tub are Gerhard, Pieter, and Johann from Cape Town with Michael from Germany, while in the top photo Dave and Llewellyn check out the rock pools at the beach in Scottburgh.

Surf's up

Being on the warm east coast of South Africa, it's always summer in Durban, but now that Spring is here, it is really hotting up and the beach is the place to be.

Exit visit Durban

Welcome to Exit newspaper whose freelance reporter Molife and partner Farai paid us a visit this weekend. In the photos Molife and Faria enjoy a drink in the Guesthouse pub with Guesthouse co-owner Llewellyn and guests from Erkelenz in Germany Dieter and Andreas.

Llewellyn, Andreas, Dieter, Molife and Farai

Dieter and Andreas

Molife from Exit and Farai

Melanie sings in Durban

A nice surprise was the whistle-stop trip former Idols star Melanie Lowe made to Durban this weekend giving a performance at the local St Clements restaurant in Musgrave Road. We thoroughly enjoyed the show - Mel you are a real star! Seen in the pics are Llewellyn, Melanie and her girlfriend Gaye.

Llewellyn, Melanie Lowe and Gaye

Llewellyn enjoys the prawn pasta

Llewellyn, Melanie and Dave

Melanie sings one of her own compositions from her latest Album

Durban weekend

Enjoying a few days in Durban are Rushin and Dominic from Cape Town, seen here with Guesthouse co-owner Llewellyn (middle). Glad you guys could come and see the stunning improvements to Durban with the World Cup.. just a pity you brought some of the Cape Town weather with you...lol. Great to have you with us.

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

Durban Beach Stag

Dave finds a sight on Durban's beachfront... thought for a moment it was something gay, but it was a Stag-Party, or was it?

Prince in finals for Mr Gay South Africa

We recently held the Provincial finals of the Mr Gay South Africa Pageant at our Guesthouse here in Durban and the organisers asked me to take some pics of the 1st runner up - Prince - for the underwear sponsors Bonewear.

So I was on the roof of the Guesthouse today and took this pic of Prince as well as quite a few others around the house, outside shower and jacuzzi.

Sunday chilling

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

Wine Week in Durban

The great thing about the annual Mercury Wine Week in Durban is that it is always on Dav'e birthday, so who needs a reason to celebrate? With friends who enjoy a good glass of Wine there was aplenty with over 180 Cape Wine Farms represented. Needless to say I have a memory lapse after far to many tastes of the beautiful nectar.

Another Birthday %$#@& for Dave

Llewellyn and Dave enjoy a glass of wine with Chris and Gavin of Tyson's Properties - we were all on the recent gay cruise to the Baltic as well.

Dave and Llewellyn eye out the hot winemasters from the Cape. And for wines we enjoyed the Slanghoek wines.. must make a note to visit the farm next time we are in the Cape.

Tinktienkie

Meet Berend a recent guest whose family is now divided between South Africa and Argentina with a sister there who runs a Hostel with her Russian husband... Hostel Tinktienkie and I said I would put a link to it here on our blog... seems one way to get out of the rat race, or you could just come to our Guesthouse here for a few days of relaxation. Even though it may be cold elsewhere in South Africa, we spent a few hours on the beach here yesterday.. glorious weather.

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.

Kzn Finals of Mr Gay South Africa 2010

Jared (left) is the winner of the Kzn finals of the Mr Gay South Africa 2010 pageant held at the Guesthouse last night, while Prince (right) is the 1st runner up who both now qualify as finalists in the competition which will take place in Pretoria in Noveember with finalists from the other regions.

Mr Gay South Africa fun at the Guesthouse

Dave and Llewellyn hosted the Central region (Kzn) finals of the Mr Gay South Africa 2010 Pageant at the Guesthouse last night and pose here with winner Jared who goes through to the national finals later this year.

Mr Gay South Africa Durban View Guesthouse Sat 24 July

It's the Mr Gay South Africa Central Reginal Finals in Durban and we have scooped the venue for the event - right here at the Guesthouse.

This Sat 24 Jul is the big night and bookings for accommodation at the Guesthouse are now open.

Bookings for the event are being handled by Mr Gay South Africa and entry is R80 which includes a free drink at the Bar. To book for the event send an email headed "Durban" to Hennie. To enter follow this link.

Calvin Klein photo shoot @ Durban View

Here's a hot pic from model Shane's collection shot on location at our Guesthouse for a Calvin Klein entry.. of course the undies will have to change if the shoot pics are accepted. I think Shane would definitely look good as the "face" of Calvin Klein.

Check us out on Google Street view

Hey, here we are on Google Maps, Street View!!

To help our Guests find us easily we have created a Google Map of the locality showing our Guesthouse, as well as local restaurants and pubs, The Lounge Gay bar as well as local cruising spots and the route to and from the new King Shaka Airport. If in viewing the map you select our Guesthouse and then under the description on the map click "more" to find the Street View and you will see what we look like from the road (with our clothes on..lol). Isn't it great?

Hot Germans back to Durban

Not the hottest bod in the world, but Germany's footballer Podolski has everything to be proud of with Germany's (4) win tonight over Argentina (0) in the World Cup quarter-finals in South Africa.

This brings Germany to Durban, for the semi-final next week. We had a house-load of proud German fans at our Guesthouse here in Durban for the opening game against Australia and they will be back for some more fun in the sun hopeful of making it to the finals.

American Guests Ryo, Bobby, Brian and Sammy have been living in Sydney and (except for Brian who heads back to Oz), are en route to the Gay Games in Cologne and we might even see them at Pride in Amsterdam where we are headed for a short break in August. Enjoy the football in Cologne guys as well as your week in Cape Town.

Is always great to have hot guys at the Guesthouse and glad you had such fun in Durban.