Gigolo in Hanover

Practical, green and underrated

Hanover has the image of a place you pass through, and that’s undeserved. The center is postwar and so not pretty in the classic sense, but what the city does have is room: the Maschsee right by the center, the Eilenriede that’s larger than many a city park in Europe, and the Herrenhäuser Gärten with a baroque garden that holds its own against Versailles.

From Amsterdam it’s about four hours’ drive. A night works better here than a short evening.

What we can do together

A loop around the Maschsee, which is exactly long enough for a conversation that needs to get going. The Herrenhäuser Gärten, especially when the fountains are on. The Altstadt around the Marktkirche, what’s left of it. And the Sprengel Museum if it rains.

The Red Thread, a line painted on the street, leads you past the sights without your having to think about the route. Practical, and typically Hanover.

Language

German, English or Dutch. Hanover, as it happens, speaks the purest High German in the country, so for anyone who ever had German at school this is the easiest city to follow.

Who I come here for

For women who are married and can’t remember the last time they were truly touched. For divorced women who have to work it out again. For widows, in whom grief and desire get in each other’s way. And just as much for Dutch women here for work whose own circle is somewhere else.

And for two people together. Everything that’s possible you can read on my services.

Practical

Travel costs follow the distance, and you know them before we arrange anything. That amount is where it stays. No surcharges for the evening, the night, the weekend or public holidays, and booking as a pair costs nothing extra.

Plan a week or two ahead. During the big trade fairs the city is booked out and hotels are absurdly expensive, so then we pick another date.

Where we meet

Hotels enough, from business ones by the fairground to quieter ones on the edge of the Eilenriede. For most women that’s more comfortable than home: neutral ground, no neighbors, and a door that locks.

Home works too, and then we settle beforehand how I arrive and where I park.

Doubts I often hear

“Do other women do this, not women like me?” That thought crosses almost everyone’s mind. In practice they’re a teacher, a nurse, a business owner. People with a mortgage and a full week.

“Aren’t I too old for this?” No such age exists for me. The ages run from the early twenties to well into the seventies.

“And if there’s no click?” You almost always feel that in the messages beforehand. Then we plan nothing.

For couples

With couples the conversation usually starts with whether it’s wise. If for one of you it’s mostly giving in rather than wanting, I notice, and then I stop it.

If there’s an honest conversation underneath, there’s plenty to arrange. Watching is fine, joining in too, and neither just as well. Both of you can hit the brakes at any moment, even while we’re busy. The rate stays the same.

What you can expect from me

On time, well turned out, and without the hurry of someone with somewhere to be afterward. I listen without steering anywhere, and there’s very little I haven’t heard before.

What you’ve agreed I hold to, even when you no longer do so on the spot.

What women often say afterward

Not that the sex was good, though that comes up too. What returns most often is something else: that someone took the time. That no one glanced at a phone. That they were asked how they really were and that the answer was actually heard.

And almost always the remark that they thought about it far longer than they needed to.

This is how it starts

A message with your town and a possible day is enough. At this distance a long evening is doable, so feel free to name a weekday.