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From: someone genuine
T1: hyg99
Date: 8/18/2007
Time: 7:12:21 PM
Remote Name: 89.19.84.251
During the day you can bathe in the three gay nudist beaches (busy during May-Oct). The first is at Pissouri, halfway on the road between paphos and Limassol. you reach it by driving to Columbia pissouri Hotel car park and then walk on the path to the left. The second gay nudist beach is at White Rocks (Aspra Vrahia) at Governor’s Beach, about 15 minutes out of Limassol by car, this time towards Larnaca. When you reach the restaurants at Governor’s Beach, you drive through the parking to the right to reach the gay section. The final, smaller one is in Ayia Napa itself, by Hotel Kermia. The main night cruising area in Limassol is the seafront woodland called Dassoudi by the Park Beach Hotel. It’s easy to find as it is behind the main Cypriot Tourist Office on the way out to the hotel sector. staying at the park Beach Hotel may be an option you want to consider as it is close to all the gay spots and its detached bungalows allow you to bring someone home without passing through reception. Opposite the Dassoudi area next to the Ethniki (National) Bank there is Jacaré, a gay bar open 10:30-2:30 weekdays and 3:30 Fridays/saturdays. Its décor is a little sparse, because the place burned down a few years ago and has only been partly refurbished (no, it wasn’t arson, it was a simple short-circuit). peak time is early – between 11pm and 1:00am; when About 500 yards further out of town you come to Germasogeia where there is a bridge over a dried, tarmac’d river bed. Cars stop under the bridge and linger there to pick up men. If you do, try to contain your impulses until you’ve left the area: there is a police station just above the bridge and you don’t want to push your luck, just in case they decide to enforce the no-sex-in-public laws.At the other end of Limassol, there is a pick-up area at the last carpark alongside the sea promenade, before the Old Harbour. This is the one to go to after a late drink at Alaloum, the main gay club in the centre of the city. It’s very easy to find, as it’s opposite Ayia Napa – the church – and it’s open every day, mostly late (arrive after 1:30am). Its interior is impressive,dating from 1640: it used to be an old caravanserai and, I’m told, the ceiling – and door – are tall enough for a camel to pass through! It is shadowy and has a sleazy feel with Folie Bergéres posters on the crimson walls. The long stage curtains are straight out of Moulin Rouge, the film: you expect Nicole and Ewan to come out and sing any moment now. The clientele is gay/mixed with almost every nightbird in Limassol paying a flying visit to talk to Stelios, the owner, himself an ‘institution’ of the island’s scene. Not far from Alaloum in the corner Spartis Street and Kitiou Kyprianou is a gay friendly ‘artistic’ coffee house called Pi next to the Town Hall to be visited earlier in the day for a coffee and a light meal. It is a very continental ‘cool’ place that often hosts photographic exhibitions. utside Limassol there are two main gay places. First, at Kato Paphos there is Different, a gay bar on the main tourist strip. It’s quite small and full of tourists; the locals prefer to go to Limassol and not show their faces there, because Paphos is a small village, where everyone knows everybody else. (This doesn’t stop them cruising at night in the caves at the seafront by Hotel Venus!) But the main club on the whole island is Larnaca’s Secrets. It’s on one of the roads to the airport, next to the District Courts. Secrets is by far the best gay space on the island, advertising itself with the biggest rainbow flag east of Mykonos. It is also the place people coming from the UK will most recognise as a gay club: live DJs instead of taped music, male nude posters on the walls, a vast open basement, an excellent sound system, a parquet floor for good acoustics (similar to the one in DTPM) and a trendy ‘with-it’ clientele. (It even has a small, discreet backroom). It comes as no surprise that one of the owners, Bill, is from the London East End – it is more of a surprise that he has spent with his partner, Nick, the club’s co-owner, a full 41 years together. Secrets is open every day except Monday from 11pm to 4am. Entry is 5 CYP, which includes a drink. In the early evening it operates as anInternet Café between 8pm - 11pm. There is a small sex shop where you can buy clothes,DVDs dildos, poppers, Kamagra and Viagra. There is no gay bar in the capital Nicosia –just open-air cruising by night in the National Gardens - but you are unlikely to end up in the beachless, baking capital during the summer, anyway. You are more likely to find yourself with a straight mate in Ayia Napa. Now Ayia Napa has no gay bars as such, but it has a full-blown gay cruising area (the garden path behind the monastery after 1:30am), so who knows, you could be lucky and pick up a straight boy off his face who wants to get off with anything – animal, vegetable or mineral!!