Life's a Beach

I'm travel editor of the UK's biggest and best lesbian magazine Diva, which means when I'm not hunting down Deutschland's hot spots, I'm exploring the great and the glamorous gay scenes around the world.

I've been pretty suprised by the diversity of Germany and just like my idol Marlene Dietricht, now 'I always keep a suitcase in Berlin'.

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The L Word
Lotte Jeffs joins the beach babes at Germany’s hottest lesbian party

It was going to take more than a cloud of volcanic ash to keep me away from L-Beach, Germany’s equivalent to the Dinah Shore weekend – and Europe’s biggest lesbian party.

I’ll spare you the details of my 24hour journey by train and bus while air-ravel was at the mercy of an Icelandic volcano. Suffice to say the thought of 5,000 hotties, incredible DJs, live shows and the famous Saturday Pool Party was enough to keep morale up en route.

I arrived in the North German beach resort of "Weissenhäuser Strand", eventually, on Friday night and checked straight into a gorgeous room at the four-star hotel (imagine an up-market CentreParks) right by the Baltic Sea. Sublime.

I love this part of Germany, and was last here to explore the historical city of Oldenburg in Holstein, which is an easy drive from Hamburg. The white sand beaches around the area are perfect in the summer and are well known for attracting sexy surfer chicks – trust me!
Anyway, this time I was back for one thing, and one thing only…some good old-fashion Deutschy, dykey fun. And there was no time to lose. Friday night saw the likes of Betty (the girls behind the L Word theme tune) and the gorgeous Sarah Bettens take to the stage. While elsewhere in the resort things were really hotting up in the clubs where you could choose to get your rocks off to everything from Pop to electro, Hip Hop to Indie music in the choice of party rooms. My favourite was the White House dance floor which looked out on to the dunes and had a huge outdoor terrace where there was some bratwurst barbeque action!

There was an amazing vibe throughout the weekend – particularly at Saturday’s bikini-fest of a pool party! At one point, walking along the white sandy beach where girls frolicked – literally FROLICKED – hand in hand, I felt more like I was in Miami than North Germany!

Which is what I absolutely love about this part of the country – it’s such a surprisingly chilled-out beach-chic kinda place. I can’t wait to go back to L-Beach next year, when hopefully there’ll be no natural disasters making the usually super-quick journey from London a real labour of love!

In the mean time, there’s a whole caboodle (note to self: use this word more often) of hot girl gay events happening around Germany this summer, and beyond. There’s Pride season – of course, which kicks off in June with the fabulous St Christopher’s Day Parades. Then there’s all the big cities’ LGB film festivals, which get the arty crowd out in force… plus all the fashion, arts and culture events, which you really shouldn’t miss.

But don’t worry, you can rely on me to be reporting back from everything, as it happens – so watch this space girls!

Chuse x


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