If the answer is "yes" then get ready to bare it all, because eWaterways, a London company specializing in river and coastal cruises, is launching its first cruise for naturists in August 2011. The seven-night nudist cruise will explore the Croatian coastline.
The holiday, which costs £500 per person, will take in Croatia's Kvarner coastline and islands from the "intimate" comfort of a vintage sailing ship. The "island of love", Rab Island, and the ancient city of Zadar feature on the ship's itinerary.
“Naturist holidays are popular and Croatia has a lot of nudist beaches – so it’s a great match,” a spokeswoman told the Daily Telegraph. “Passengers will get undressed for swimming and sunbathing, but will be clothed for dinner.”
The cruise departs on August 27, 2011 and there is space for 22 travelling nudists. For more information visit www.ewaterways.com.
Photo Credit: Tucepi nudist beach by kermit965 via Flickr (Creative Commons).
German nudists are to get their own 18km (11 mile) long hiking trail in the Harz mountain range so they can ramble in nothing but their birthday suits, Reuters reports.
Campsite owner, Heinz Ludwig, who has spearheaded the project to create the nudist trail says: "I think it's a great way to promote tourism here, there's already been a lot of interest in it."
Running between the village of Dankerode and the Wippertal dam, the 18km naturist trail is marked up with signs warning clothed walkers that they might encounter hikers in the buff.
According to Reuters, one of the signs reads: "If you don't want to see people with nothing on then you should refrain from moving on!".
Since about the 1980s there has been an extensive removal of restrictions on public nudity in Germany, and Freikörperkultur or FKK (Free Body Culture) is a popular pastime.
Over in the Swiss Alps however, naked rambling has been banned. The Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden has made nude hiking illegal this year in response to an influx of FKK walkers, many of which were crossing over to the Swiss Alps from Germany.
Photo by ricardo.martins via Flickr (Creative Commons).
