I had been assigned to the Netherlands agency to anglicise many of their ads so they could be used throughout the EU. Not an easy task as I didn't speak a word of Dutch but fortunately everyone in the two offices in Amsterdam and Rotterdam did.
I had been there just over three weeks working flat out six and seven days a week from around eight to seven. Luckily the agency, an American global one with offices bloody nigh everywhere, were generous with expenses and I was staying in a beautiful hotel that ran alongside one of the canals and was no more than a five-minute walk to the agency which was a lovely way to start a day. On top of that they had given a suite so I could hold meetings there if necessary.
"I was considering having a massage," I told the receptionist at the spa of the hotel.
"Male or female?" the pretty, blonde receptionist asked.
"Sorry?" I replied feeling a little confused.
"Would you like a male or female masseur?"
I didn't reply for a moment or two as I had never been asked that before. Most of my massage experiences had been in holiday hotels in Spain, Portugal or Greece and not in the more sexually relaxed atmosphere of Holland. Somewhat confused, I asked who was available to do the massage; I never know whether it should be eusses or asseurs so I mumbled. I was advised that there were three working today, two female and a male. Clicking on her iPad she brought up the profiles of the three and showed them to me.
"Anneka will not be available for a few hours," she advised pointing at one of the females, but both Hendrik and Nelsa are available now.
Nelsa looked very young and actually a little butch, which turned me off turned me off so, feeling very grown up and sexually liberated I chose the guy. From his photo he looked to be in his forties. He appeared to be fit, was quite handsome with blonde, greying, quite long hair and a nicely hairy chest, which is a something of a thing for mine.
The spa receptionist pressed a couple of buttons on the intercom and smiling at me said.
"He's available now in salon four. Have fun."
I went to the salon and met Hendrik. "Lovely to meet you Jayne," he said holding my gaze slightly longer than men usually do as we shook hands. His dress code was to say the least, unusual. He was wearing a shorty, dark blue silk dressing gown, which was tied at the waist, and ended mid-way down his thighs. Where the lapels gaped, I could see his fairly hairy chest, the hairs varying in colour from black to silver. His lower legs were bare, he had nothing on his feet and for I noted some reason that he had unusually long toes.
"Welcome," he said, closing the door behind him after showing me into the treatment room.
I was surprised not to see a massage table, but instead there was a mattress on the floor covered by a white sheet with a large blue towel in the middle.
"Yes, we don't use a table," he said guessing, or seeing my surprise. "It's more relaxing on the floor." Like most Dutch people, he spoke near perfect English, albeit with a slight American accent.
"Ok," was all I could manage rather hoarsely, momentarily wondering why on earth I was putting myself through this.
"For both of us," he added, taking hold of my elbow.
"I see from the receptionist that you have chosen a Swedish aromatherapy massage?" he said reading from an iPad.
"Yes, I have."
"And you have booked for ninety minutes, an hour and a half."
"That's right."
"Well let me leave you to get ready," he said handing me a towel. "Please undress, lay on your front and cover yourself with this.
As he left the room some light jazz came onto the sound system. I undressed quickly, hung my clothes in the wardrobe and checked my appearance in the mirror. I was pretty happy with my body that at forty-four was still slim, well slimmish, with no undue saggy places and no cellulite at all. I fluffed up my 'dirty' blonde, shortish hair and saw that my nipples were as always very prominent making it look as though I was aroused. As it happens, I was feeling a little 'tingly' at the prospect of being massaged by this rather attractive man, but that was not affecting my nipples, they were just built that way and bloody embarrassing they can be too. I was not sure about being nude or not so I kept my panties on. After lying down I realised that resting my face on my arms didn't work well with wearing my glasses so I removed them and put them beside me on the mattress thinking I might need them during the massage.
I looked at the towel that he had given me. It was quite thin and about four feet square which struck me as being an unusual shape for a towel but hey ho we were in Netherlands where, quite rightly, they do things their way.
I lay down as instructed, and draped the towel over my bottom so that it covered me from my waist to about mid-thigh. There was a light knock at the door and Hendrik called out as he came in. "Are you ready Jayne? Ah yes I see that you are."
The mattress was soft and warm and had a lovely sweet smell; it was pleasant to lie on and quite relaxing. He knelt beside me and ran his hands up and down my back pushing the towel down little, but still leaving most of my bottom covered.
He started on the top of my back. Pouring warm oil between my shoulder blades he massaged me fairly deeply all over my upper back and shoulders. It felt good. That finished, he repeated the exercise with each of my legs. Each time he merely rolled the towel up a little to expose the part that he was about to massage. This meant that my upper thighs were exposed, but nothing else, hopefully.
Returning to my back and kneeling above my head he took my wrists and pulled my arms up over my shoulders so they were in front of me and alongside his legs. He massaged each of my upper and lower arms for a surprisingly long time before moving on to my hands. I find having my fingers and palms massaged to be very sensual. He made it more so by resting my arms on his upper legs, opening the dressing gown slightly. The combination of his fingers on my flesh and my arm on the silk of his robe was very stimulating. Leaving my arms above my head he ran his hands down them, past my elbow, through my armpits and down the side of my body, briefly grazing across the sides of each of my breasts. That not only made me jump, but it also surprised me and, and I had to admit aroused me. Was this a dead straight massage, I began to ask myself?
I felt him roll the towel down a little exposing more of my lower back, waist and the top of my bum, just where it starts to flare up into the two mounds of flesh. He poured oil onto the small of my back and started massaging that and my waist. His hands were sliding a few inches up my back around my waist and onto my hips then back and just up the swell of my buttocks. It was gorgeous. I could feel the sides of his hands keep pushing against the towel that was just covering the crease. Each time it felt as though it had moved quite a way but in reality, it was probably only inches.
"Feel good, everything ok?" he asked in a soft, soothing voice.
"Mmmmmm, very nice," I groaned back finding speaking difficult with my head resting on my arms.
I felt the towel over my bottom being lifted.
"May I?" he asked.
I wasn't sure what he meant but, in any case, I murmured. "Yes," as I felt the towel move a little.
"Time to turn over Jayne."