The origin of naturism has been subject to a lot of debate. Many historians who studied the lifestyle will point out a period in the early 20th century when the German Dr Heinrich Scham wrote the book Nacktkultur. Some, however, say it started already during the industrial revolution when a Belgian guy first used the term “naturism”. And others will tell you that it was way earlier, during Roman times when naked sports were more … Read more
When people talk about going to the south of France, immediately the Mediterranean coast pops into mind. The mild weather, the long beaches where bikini tops have always been a rarity, places like Nice, Cannes, and Saint Tropez where half of Hollywood has a boat in the harbor and of course the world-famous naturist destination Cap d’Agde. We often forget that the south of France has another coast, the Atlantic one, which is (at least … Read more
We love city tripping. A couple of days away exploring a different culture, tasting different foods and watching life from a terrace with some craft beers or local wines… Who doesn’t like that? Some time ago, these kinds of vacations were hard to combine with a nakation. But nowadays the cities start to see the advantages of also providing options for the naturist traveller who wants just that little bit more. Paris, which happens to … Read more
UNFORTUNATE NEWS: The owners of O’Naturel have announced that the restaurant will shut down on February 16th 2019. Because the weather in Canada started to turn cold and grey, our time to move on had come. Less than twelve hours after we boarded the plane in Montreal we touched ground in one of Europe’s most amazing cities. Although a good nap sounded like a great way to get rid of our jet lag, we … Read more
It was around 2 am when Nick suddenly woke up with one of those cartoon light bulbs above his head. “We’ve been writing about places to go naked all over Europe for the last several months, but it had never occurred to us to tell our readers something about our home country.”Belgium does have its own nude beach in Bredene. It also has several naturist clubs and campings, naturist activities, and even a naturist B&B. … Read more
Our research for a flight to Sri Lanka that wouldn’t drown most of our monthly budget gave us Istanbul as the perfect place to fly from. Istanbul. Yes, we’ve followed the news recently, and especially the controls on internet censorship which the Turkish government is implementing worried us a little. Is nudism in Turkey even allowed? Will we be able to be nude outside of our hotel room? What if they know about Naked Wanderings? … Read more
If you’ve been following us via this blog or on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter during the last months, you probably noticed that we’ve spent a lot of time in Greece. A real necessity, even if we only wanted to get the slightest impression of the country. When you look at the country on the map, it doesn’t seem very big. Its size is roughly the same as Austria and Switzerland combined and a bus ride … Read more
If you’ve read our last post, you already know that luck wasn’t on our side on Skopelos island, well, concerning weather that is. But somehow we had expected it, it was already past the end of the season and autumn had to kick in one day. And it did. When we were on the island. After three days of waiting (no, that’s not true, we didn’t really sit there waiting but we enjoyed ourselves doing … Read more
We have been blessed over the last months, not only have we been living our dream day after day, we also had the perfect weather to do so. Temperatures switched from warm to hot to too hot to come out of the sea, but as nudists, we wouldn’t have wished for anything else. We hadn’t seen any rain since June, which is, for us Belgians, pretty extraordinary. Somewhere in the back of our heads … Read more
We wanted to visit one last island before leaving Greece and running away to someplace where the winter can’t get to us. We had visited an Ionian island, two Cyclade islands, and Peloponnese which basically is also a huge island. So our eye fell on a small group of islands in the north of Athens: The Sporades. Skiathos is known to be the most popular island, Alonissos the least (it would probably quite deserted … Read more