Naked hike over a Tarragonan ridge.
We set out from the car and had to follow the motorway for a short way on a side trail, before we were able to turn off and head up the dry valley. I stripped off and Polly kept her …
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A Jehovah's Witness at the door!
Yep, it finally happened. I was working at home on my PC, naked as usual, or at least naked as the temperature permits. The doorbell rang, and the dog went bananas, (also as usual). Calming the dog down, I opened …
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Naked European Walking Tour Farm – Saturday
The Saturday was a race to remove all of our things and to basically tidy the house before the main cleaners arrived. It took a couple of hours for people to depart in dribs and drabs, depending on who had …
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Naked European Walking Tour horses – Tuesday
We set off for a gentle hike into the woods of a nearby alp with low cloud brushing the treetops. First we followed a forest trail, zig-zagging steadily up the hill side, getting warmer as we gained altitude. After some …
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Mark Storey describes naked hiking 101
I’m repeatedly amazed at the quizzical responses I get when I tell people that I, or my wife and I, just got back from a nude hike up a river trail to a distant peak. “Don’t the bugs get to …
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Naked European Walking Tour Mandelberggut – Wednesday
Wednesday saw us setting off directly from the hut and reversing the route through the forest. We undressed and the talk was easy, and the walking a breeze, as we started, unusually, by going downhill back to the now-dried-up lake …
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Naked European Walking Tour Blunthautal – Friday
Friday arrived all too soon, and we packed to descend from the hills, clearing and carrying our rubbish away with us. It was at this point that we really appreciated having had a static base camp, and light day sacks …
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Real life starts here.
We lived in a very out of the way farmhouse, with no mains facilities at all, we used to run chickens, and my wife worked a productive vegetable garden. One afternoon, some friends arrived with a few others in tow …
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Product review – indispensible camera clamp
Motivated by Ernest’s excellent Monopod review I’d like to provide a short review of the device I commonly use. For stabilizing my compact digital camera I find the camera-clamp from Langhans Konstruktion GMBH the perfect solution. The camera thread, which …
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Naked European Walking Tour Donkeys -Thursday
Thursday July 18 After breakfast, and waiting to leave, we were entertained by some donkey sex in the next door paddock. A male and female donkey with what was clearly their offspring were gamboling about in the field. Every now …
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