Portugal hardly ever makes the charts when it comes to naturist vacations. This has a lot to do with its history. When naturism started booming around Western Europe in the sixties and seventies, Portugal was locked in a dictatorship that completely banned nudity. After democracy returned in the mid-seventies, it would take more than another decade before the first Naturist Law was approved by the government and naturism was legalised.   By that time, France, Croatia, Spain, and Greece had already been established as the go-to places if you preferred to wear the least possible during your ..read more

A few months ago, we introduced you to Remi and Sandra, who dreamt of creating a brand new naturist campground in Italy. Today, this dream is taking huge leaps towards becoming a reality. There is a name, there is a place, and most of all, there is a unique opportunity for everyone to become part of this. So we asked them for an update.     Ciao tutti!   A lot has happened since our last update back in December when we shared our dream of opening the 14th naturist/naked campsite in Italy in this blog. Fast forward four months, and we’re excited to bring you up to speed on our p ..read more

Any vacation is better when you can spend some time without clothes, but a honeymoon is a whole other category. It’s the time to celebrate that the two of you became one YOU, and why on earth would you want to do this with clothes on? It’s often said that spending time naked together creates a special bond. Is that not exactly what you want after the rings have been exchanged?   With more than 1500 destinations around the world where clothes are just an option, the choice for a perfect nude honeymoon is large. Yet, some places fit better than others. Personally, we’re not married. If that ..read more

We took our first steps into social nudity at a wellness centre. For those of you who are not from Belgium, Germany, or The Netherlands, wellness centres are like water parks for grown-ups. They offer a variety of swimming pools, saunas, hammams, hot tubs, cold tubs, massages, and other things that are meant to give you total relaxation. Nudity is the dress code at these places, for reasons that we’ll get to in a moment.   In the years that followed, wellness centres would be the only places where we got naked among strangers. Until one evening of the first day of a camping trip. We had a ..read more

What is naturism?   It’s one of the questions that popped into our heads when we were watching the sunset one night. We were all alone on an island at the coast of Australia. No phones or computers to distract us. We had snorkelled, sunbathed, and just devoured our one-pan dinner made on our one-pan camping stove. Even though we weren’t at a naturist place, we were naked anyway. There was nobody who could stop us. Nobody could be offended.   Years ago, we would have given you a solid answer, inspired by the commonly accepted definition of the International Naturist Federation. We wou ..read more

Is it just us, or do you also immediately think about the Amazon when someone says the word “rainforest”?   We often seem to forget that there is more than one rainforest. Like the Daintree in northern Queensland, which is 10 million years older than the Amazon, making this the oldest rainforest in the world. In size, Daintree definitely can’t compete with the Amazon, but it can in biodiversity. In fact, it is home to the cassowary, one of the last remaining Jurassic birds.   What drew us over the line though was that there’s also a place to get naked.     How to get to Ha ..read more

After almost 7 years of continuous travelling to naked places around the world, we think that we’ve seen our fair share of what’s on offer. We’ve been to naked cities in France and Spain, visited the largest naturist domain in the world and the busiest nude beach in the USA, went high-end in the Caribbean, on a naked cruise in Croatia, visited clubs, resorts, and nude beaches in pretty much every continent. The list goes on and on.   Just when we started to wonder what else could be out there that might still blow our minds, we received a message asking whether we were interested in spend ..read more

New Zealand has no official nude beaches. Okay, now that we have the bad news out of the way, here’s the good news: New Zealand is one of the few countries in the world that don’t have specific laws against non-sexual public nudity, making every beach a potential legal nude beach.   Of course, this comes with a side note: You are allowed to be naked anywhere as long as your nudity doesn’t offend anyone. In other words, the fewer clothed people around you, the smaller your chance of running into problems. This is why those who prefer not to wear bathing suits often seek out beaches where f ..read more

When we started planning this New Zealand trip and more and more naturist clubs found their way onto our itinerary, we wondered whether we weren’t overfilling our bucket. We would literally hop from one naturist club to another, all within just a few hours driving distance. How different could they really be? Will we not end up seeing the same things over and over? Will it not all become a blurry mix of memories that could have happened anywhere?   Already after visiting our second club, we realised that although every naturist club in New Zealand maintains the same values, they still man ..read more

One of the things we enjoyed a lot about naturism in New Zealand is not just that there are quite a lot of naturist clubs, but also that they are very well spread across the country. No matter where you live or where you’re staying, there’s always a club within less than a 2-hour drive.   For tourists like ourselves, no matter which region we wanted to visit, we could be certain that we could stay in a clothes-free place. One region we were particularly looking forward to visiting was Hawkes Bay, partly because we had heard great things about the naturist club, but also because it’s one o ..read more