Nudist Day Blog
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08/11/2008 Tiny Panama CO Hotel Gets Top Ranking A hotel on a private island with all of 3 rooms ranked second only to Mexico’s Hidden River Resort in Trip Advisor’s recently released list of the top ten nudist destinations in the world. Located in Panama’s Bocas del Toro province in the Western part of the country near Costa Rica, the quaint clothing-optional venue is [...] |
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08/10/2008 Blogger Censures Popular Nudist Blogs Blogger.com, a free blog hosting site owned by Google, took the unusual step of censuring two of the most widely read and respected nudist blogs on the internet: Diary of a Nudist and the Terra Cotta Inn’s blog. The move against the sites came without warning and appeared to stem from complaints by conservative users. [...] |
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08/03/2008 Canadian Nudists Get Nude in Darkest Winter Even with global warming, winters are still extremely harsh and long in most of Canada except the Pacific coast. The country’s nudists generally have to travel to warmer climes during this period to be able to shed their clothes. The prolific naturist federation in the province of Québec (FQN), however, is constantly finding new ways [...] |
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07/30/2008 Poles and Germans Clash on Nude Beaches Now that Poland is part of the European Union, there are no border crossings between it and neighboring Germany. As a result, Poles are flocking to Baltic sea beaches on the German side. The problem is that many German beach goers are nudists, while the vast majority of Poles are devout Catholics and would never [...] |
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07/26/2008 Whatever Happened To…The Naked Rambler? …Brattleboro? Stephen Gough, a.k.a The Naked Rambler, the UK man claiming his right to be naked where and when he wishes in his native land, made headlines for years, both for his treks across Great Britain and for his frequent troubles with the law. However, the “Nude Messiah” has been but a footnote since his last [...] |
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07/24/2008 Nude or Nudist Massage? We nudists usually know about the benefits of massage therapy and many in the community get their bodies treated on a regular basis. One of the options available to us is the “nudist” or “naturist” massage. There unfortunately seems to be a lot of confusion as to what a nudist massage really is… Simply put, a [...] |
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07/19/2008 Dubai: Dare to Bare and Get Busted Nudity is a crime in the Muslim world, even in Dubai, the fabled resort city in the United Arab Emirates so popular with Westerners looking to unwind. Recently, city authorities started cracking down on immoral behavior on its beaches. Prohibited acts include topless sunbathing and nudity, both unthinkable in a Muslim nation but normal [...] |
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07/17/2008 Irish Reality Show Needs Nudists July 17, 2008 - Adare Productions recently communicated with Nudist Day, asking us to help them find nudists willing to participate in an Irish TV reality show. The show, a charity special co-produced by RTE will air this summer and is called Failte Towers (a parody of Fawlty Towers, we reckon). Twelve celebrities will [...] |
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07/14/2008 Believe it or Not: A Nudist Beach in China! Chinese society has long been quite conservative, but with the advent of capitalism, the pressure towards liberalization has been increasing. Some are even proposing the unthinkable: Making it legal to be nude on a beach! Mind you, just one beach, where foreigners have been shedding their togs for a while now. Dadonghai beach near Sanya, on [...] |
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07/13/2008 Swimsuit-Free Day in Spain SPAIN, July 13, 2008 - Spain enjoys its second annual Swimsuit-Free day (”Día Sin Bañador”), sponsored by the Spanish Naturist Federation (FEN). The event aims to promote the benefits of swimming nude and encourages ordinary people to shed their swim wear on any beach in Spain. It’s hoped that eventually all beaches in the country [...] |
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07/08/2008 Exclusive: Interview with a Nudist Revolutionary Recently we wrote about a nudist movement called Pronudista that protested in the center of Madrid on June 7, same day as the World Naked Bike Ride was on in town. Today we bring you an exclusive interview we conducted in Spanish with Luis Pérez, founder of the group that aims to make public nudity [...] |
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07/06/2008 August 17: Bare Buns Race VANCOUVER, BC - Wreck Beach, the famous clothing-optional beach near Vancouver in Canada, is the site of an annual foot race. This year’s edition, the 12th, will be held on Sunday, August 17th at noon. There is a registration fee for runners entering the race, but each participant does receive a free T-shirt, regardless of [...] |
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07/02/2008 The Nekkid Band is Back! It was two years ago in December on this site that we reported that the Nekkid Monday Band was to play no more. The talented but dispirited nudist funk group, led by Shane Gentry, had decided then that they lacked support from the community and would seek fame and fortune as musicians of the textile [...] |
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07/01/2008 July 5: 2008 Sopelana Nudist Race SPAIN - The 2008 edition of the Sopelana nudist race is scheduled for this Saturday at noon, in the town of the same name near Bilbao. This annual event takes place on Barinatxe beach and is one of the more popular nude foot races in the world. Nude runners of all ages cover 5 km [...] |
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06/30/2008 Swiss Law Asks: Nudist or Nuts? Nudist Day likes to expose the sometimes silly laws regarding public nudity in various parts of the world. This time around, we land in Switzerland… If you were to get naked in public in the streets of a Swiss city, the treatment you’ll get from local authorities will vary. In Neuchâtel, it isn’t a crime to [...] |
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06/29/2008 Colombia Does Too Have a Nudist Paradise! As we’ve reported before, Colombia has limited possibilities for nudists. There are no clothing-optional resorts and only one (recently) landed club located in the capital, Bogota. However, there is one very attractive option for nudists, on the Caribbean coast near the beautiful port city of Santa Marta: Tayrona National Park (Parque Tayrona). The legendary tropical paradise [...] |
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06/29/2008 Nudist Day Google Group Up and Running! You can now receive notifications of new articles on our web site by email, as well as post your comments and questions, via our new Google discussion group. All you have to do is enter your email address in the box at the top of our right sidebar, or visit http://groups.google.com/group/nudistday. You don’t need to [...] |
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06/23/2008 Spanish Nudists Win Against Prude Politicos ALICANTE, SPAIN - A concerted campaign by the Spanish naturist federation (FEN) resulted in the cancellation of an anti-nudist by-law passed June 16, 2008, by the municipality of Alicante. The legislation called for heavy fines to persons found nude on the city’s beaches. Although the bill was unconstitutional and any convictions would certainly have been [...] |
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06/18/2008 Nudist Improv Night a Success NEW YORK CITY - According to John Ordover, organizer of last week’s nude improv comedy in Manhattan, the show was a resounding success, filling-up every one of the tiny theater’s 39 seats with nude patrons. The four comedians, two men and two women, were also all naked on stage, as was Ordover, acting as emcee. [...] |
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06/15/2008 Canadian Nudist Gets 45 Days in Jail MONCTON, NB, CANADA - A Moncton, New Brunswick, court condemned a nudist to 45 days in jail. Marc Langlais, a Quebec resident who owns tourist properties in Cap Pele, a coastal town in the neighboring province, was also barred for two years from entering any of the three beaches in the area where he had [...] |
