2022 DAILY ACCOUNT - PART 3: 21 July

Row, row, row your boat. Today is the day we go for a splash. We have to take a train to the upper part of the River Elbe so we can row our boats down the river. But before getting into the water, let's look at the trains. I have always been fascinated by trains - ever since I was a little boy. I have hundreds of selfies taken with trains all over the world. This was taken just before we boarded the train:

I have two photos taken the day before of me driving a train:

And if that pic isn't clear enough, here's a side pic that shows quite clearly that I'm in the driver's seat.

We row a good 17km into the sunset but to be honest, the flow of the river helped quite a lot. Here's a pic of me all poised for the hard task of rowing down the river.

We stop along the way to swim and to take selfies of course.

It took me a long time to get the entire vessel in my selfie. I tried many poses and different angles and in the end, I had to get out of the water just to capture the whole boat behind me.

But the pics others take of me are always better than my selfies. Here's a pic taken by a friend. The entire boat can be seen without any difficulty.

I'm glad that everyone is armed today with a mobile phone/camera. I always welcome pics taken by others. They give a different perspective. Here's a lovely pic that shows the bigger picture.

As you can see, all the pics taken by others are so much better than the pics I take myself.

This photo diary won't be complete if I leave out the ice-cream break:

We soon arrive at the house of the oldest and most revered naturist in the whole of Saxony for a group photo.

2022 DAILY ACCOUNT - PART 2: 20 July

To get to our starting point of the hike, we first took a train. I will show photos of the train later on this post.

There are rivers and bridges to cross.

Different rock formations:

There are even caves:

We soon have to split into two groups. The tougher trail goes through narrow rocks on the face of a mountain cliff. There is a chain you can hold on to and of course you need both hands to ensure you're safe. But it's no fun climbing over a difficult trail and you have no photos to remember it by. Besides, I'm as sure-footed as a mountain goat.

That's the end of our hiking and it's time to board the train.

2022 DAILY ACCOUNT - PART 1A: 19 July (continued)

For the sake of completeness, I decided to write this short post as an addendum to the last post. This is because following yesterday's post, I received a few queries from my readers and I thought it would be good if I gave the full picture. I was asked if we walked in the nude on public roads as well. Do I have photos of them? Whether I have a photo of something is a question one need not ask a selfie addict. Of course I have photos of Everything. Countless photos. Hahaha

The following photos were all taken on 19 July 2022.

Here is a passing car on a public road:

A bus-stop:

A passing bus:

And a long tram with tourists in it:

I hope this gives a better picture of our hike. The total distance exceeded 14km in a single day.

My next post will focus on the following day - 20 July 2022.

ERRATUM

I just realised that I made a mistake above. All the photos above were in fact taken on 20 July 2022 and not 19 July 2022. This may not be an important point to my readers but since this is my personal diary, I have to be sure that such mistakes are not made. In most of my holiday photos, I can tell that it's a different day by the change of my clothes. But obviously I can't do that here. Haha.

Here is a pic of me with a passing car that was really taken on 19 July 2022:

2022 DAILY ACCOUNT - PART 1: 19 July

Now that we are approaching the end of 2022, I thought I should write daily accounts of some of the days in 2022 which are interesting to me in my life as a naturist. As far as possible, I will avoid posting pics of other people unless I am fairly certain they are OK with it or they have appeared in other public sites.

19 July is the first day of my nude hiking in Saxony, Germany. On this day, the plan is to see some old abandoned railway line and to visit an old dilapidated castle.

It is a hot day.

The trail is long. and there's a lot of walking. This pic gives a perspective of how far one has to walk.

Sometimes it gets very hot.

The road is flanked on both sides by fields.

A word of advice to the uninitiated. It's wise to apply sun cream all over your body including parts of the body that one does not normally apply it or you may end your holiday with sun-burn all over your body.

Sometimes, there is shade.

There may be the occasional car on the trail. Just step aside and take a selfie! Haha

There are refreshing stops at streams and rivers.

We sometimes pass through fields where workers are gathering the harvest.

There are quaint little bridges too that one has to cross.

Sometimes, there are cows along the way and they afford a great selfie backdrop.

We finally arrive at our destination - the disused railway track.

And the castle remains.

The record on my Garmin GPS watch shows that I cover a total of 14.36km. 

Pop the champagne! My wordpress blog is on Feedspot's list.

I have been keeping several blogs on my life as a naturist on various websites partly as a form of diary keeping (an activity which I have been hooked on since the age of 7) and partly to promote naturism and to affirm the decency of the nude human body. Unbeknownst to me, my Wordpress blog (which is paralleled by this blog in case one website outlaws nudity suddenly as some have been known to do) which isn't in any way outstanding - it's more like a personal diary which I imagined would bore anyone to tears - was selected in the Top 35 Naturist Blogs by Feedspot. See No.20 for my blog.

Now that should spur me on to kick off my sluggishness and update my blog more regularly. Now is the right time to blog more seeing that I have just completed all my travels for this year and I must have some story to tell.

In the meanwhile, here's champagne to celebrate my getting on Feedspot's list!

It's been 5 years.

I used to post a lot on Tumblr until the website became puritanical a couple of years ago and even decent nudity was banned. Recently, Tumblr has turned over a new leaf and has allowed bloggers to post decent nude pics on its site, provided they are flagged 'mature'. I was going through my past Tumblr posts when I saw this link which I posted on Tumblr on 21 November 2017. The caption under the photo reads 'My God! This photo is pregnant with Edenic meaning. Nude in the garden eating a fruit and reading a book that says "God’s Problem". Haha'. 

I thought it'd be a good idea to do another pic in exactly the same pose. I managed to find the same book, the pages of which have now turned yellow and I got the same chair, a large fruit and I was ready for a photoshoot. It so happened that there were dead leaves all over which was just right. The photo beautifully captures the passage of time and how after 5 years, everything is in decay right down to the dead leaves strewn all around. Surely this can be considered an artistic piece? Maybe I should title this art piece "Time's Winged Chariot". Haha.