Only true travelled naturists will know where this photo of me and my friend was taken?
First person to get it right can see all my photos from this vacation!
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@scinvestorsc Not nervous. Formentera gives off the most amazing vibes where freedom is in the air. We had an apartment next to beach and as soon as we get there I just took all clothes off and never put them back on.
Beautiful Formentera!
The one place in Europe where you can go anywhere on the entire island nude and no one will give you hassle.
I spent 2 whole weeks nude here in summer 2022 - read my other post about this amazing time for me!
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My love for Formentera
Formentera remains one of Europe’s most quietly extraordinary places. South of Ibiza in the Balearic Islands, it draws far fewer visitors than its louder neighbour yet rewards those who reach it with an almost untouched landscape.
White-sand beaches meet water so clear and turquoise it seems unreal. The pace is unhurried, the locals warm, and the island carries a gentle bohemian spirit that invites people simply to exist.
I was 15. My parents chose Formentera deliberately. They were not naturists, and my younger brothers, aged 12 and 9, usually stayed in shorts. Yet they understood how much the island’s relaxed attitude toward the body would mean to me. Unlike places that restrict nudity to designated beaches, Formentera treats it as ordinary. On most stretches of sand you can simply choose what feels right. That openness decided the trip.
We stayed in a simple apartment on the southern coast, fifty metres from Migjorn beach. Migjorn stretches for Km’s - a broad ribbon of soft pale sand backed by low dunes and rocky points, the water shifting from pale aquamarine in the shallows to deeper sapphire. I spent the entire fortnight naked, not only on the beach but walking to cafés and beach bars, sitting under pine trees. No one stared. No one commented. The absence of reaction was itself liberating.
One day we travelled north to Ses Illetes, the island’s most celebrated beach. On the narrow peninsula within Ses Salines Natural Park, Illetes is a dazzling stretch of fine white sand, almost pink in places, bordered by shallow, luminous turquoise water. The sea is usually calm, the horizon broken only by the distant outline of Es Vedrà. Dunes and sparse vegetation frame the shore.
At the edge of this beach sits one of the island’s finest fish restaurants, tables almost in the sand, serving the day’s catch; grilled sea bass, lobster, local prawns still tasting of the sea.
The attached photograph was taken from a low rock outcrop just beyond the main stretch, with the full curve of Illetes and its impossibly clear water behind me. I am posing happily with my brothers. I was one of maybe only 10 people who was fully nude, however I felt totally at ease and that my choice not to wear swimwear was accepted and approved by all.
Being naked throughout those two weeks brought a deep, steady joy. There was the physical pleasure of sun and air on skin, the freedom of movement without fabric, and a constant low buzz of quiet exhilaration. People noticed, of course, but the attention was respectful, occasional glances of open, unembarrassed admiration rather than judgement. That combination of personal liberty and gentle acceptance created a feeling I had never known: that my body belonged entirely to me and the world could meet it without demand.
I tried more than once to persuade my brothers to join me. They refused, content in their shorts, and I felt genuine sadness for them. They were missing the lightness, the mental quiet, the pure physical ease that came with shedding every layer. I wished they could experience the same unselfconscious freedom.
Those two weeks became a turning point. I arrived as a girl who preferred to be nude on the sand and left understanding naturism as a way of being rather than a holiday exception. Confidence accumulated slowly until I no longer felt the need to hide this part of myself.
When we returned home the change was lasting. I stopped carefully editing what I shared. The quiet shame that had once accompanied the word “nudist” evaporated. I had lived 14 days in a place where my preference was simply accepted.
Formentera’s beauty is not limited to its coastline. The island’s small scale encourages exploration by bicycle or on foot. The interior is low and scrubby, dotted with whitewashed houses. Evenings settle into long, soft light. Yet what stays with me most is the permission the place extends: to inhabit your body without apology.
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A question I am asked a lot is why did you like growing up going on holidays to naturist resorts, and what did you do when you were there?
The short answer is - the same as I would have done on any other holiday. Sea, Beach, Pool, Waterslides, hang out with new friends, holiday romances etc
The only difference is it was all done naked.
I wish the lifestyle would be normalised and accepted more for the innocent, confidence building and rewarding lifestyle that it is.
And, as I decided to include an image of this here (this is a boy I had 3 “holiday romances” with over 3 consecutive years), it’s completely normal for boys and younger men to sometimes show a little bit of excitement - this should not be something for them or anyone else around them to be scared of - it’s natural and does not automatically mean they have sexual or improper thoughts.
#Naturism is beautiful, we should all embrace it.
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@nakedwanderings Thank you this is a great summary. I’ve always heard of Euronat but never been. I used to go to Valalta in Croatia, however this sounds even better from what you write here 😃
Part 2 of 2:
Some of my happiest memories belong to those long stretches of time spent entirely nude as a young teenager. I would stay at naturist resorts for weeks on end. While many people my age preferred to keep at least a towel or a pair of shorts nearby, I rarely felt the need. I woke up naked, swam naked, walked the paths between bungalows naked, ate lunch under the trees naked. The days took on a rhythm that felt almost meditative. There was no constant calculation of what I looked like from this angle or that. The mental energy other girls spent adjusting straps or tugging at hemlines was simply free for other things.
And I did the ordinary things teenagers do. I met boys. I had the tentative, sun-warmed holiday romances that feel enormous at the time and sweetly small in retrospect. I hung out with groups of other teens, talking late into the evening under strings of lights. I tried vaping (and decided it was mostly theatre). I negotiated the occasional weak cocktail from my dad with the serious negotiation skills only a teenager possesses. The difference was that I did all of it without clothes and without the usual self-consciousness. There was a strange, liberating equality in that. When everyone is bare, the usual hierarchies of fashion and figure lose some of their power. You are left with personality, humour, kindness, the way someone laughs or listens. Those weeks taught me that connection does not require costume.
Naturism never felt like a performance or a statement. It felt like coming home to myself. The physical sensations alone were enough to keep me returning: the clean heat of midday sun, the cool shock of water, the soft give of grass underfoot. But the deeper gift was psychological. I learned early that my worth was not tied to how closely I matched an ideal. That knowledge became a quiet shield. When the inevitable comparisons and critical voices of adolescence appeared, they found less purchase on me than they might have otherwise.
As I move further into womanhood, naturism remains a deliberate choice rather than a leftover habit. It is a practice I return to because it continues to give me something essential; permission to occupy my body without negotiation. I hope one day to pass that same ease on to my own children. I want them to grow up knowing that skin is not scandalous, that comfort in one’s own form is a birthright rather than a hard-won victory. I have seen how positive the lifestyle can be for both physical and mental health: the vitamin D, the reduced stress of constant body monitoring, the simple joy of unrestricted movement. Those benefits are real, and they are worth protecting.
Yet I am also aware that naturism among younger people is still treated as something slightly suspect, a curiosity or a taboo. Too many assume it must be either childish or somehow improper. I wish that were not the case. Bodies are not problems to be solved or objects to be constantly managed. They are the only homes we will ever truly own. By sharing my story; by speaking openly about the ordinary happiness of growing up this way, I hope to chip away at that awkward silence. If even one young person reads this and feels a little less alone in their own skin, or a little braver about choosing comfort over conformity, then the words will have done their work.
Naturism did not make my life perfect. It simply removed one heavy layer of unnecessary struggle. In its place it left space; for laughter, for connection, for the uncomplicated pleasure of existing under open sky. That space is something I will always choose to protect. And if telling the truth about it helps others find their own version of that freedom, then I am glad to keep speaking.
Embracing the Skin You’re In: How Naturism Gifted Me a Lifetime of Confidence
Part 1 of 2:
Ever since I can remember, I have been a nudist. Not in the self-conscious, rebellious way some people adopt later in life, but in the quiet, ordinary way a child accepts the world as it is given to her. My parents never dressed me in a bikini when we went to the beach. There was no ceremony about it, no announcement, no awkward conversation. Being naked simply felt as natural as breathing. The sun on my shoulders, the sand between my toes, the breeze moving across my skin, these were the textures of my earliest summers. I genuinely believed this was how every girl experienced the seaside. It never occurred to me that other families treated the body as something that needed covering the moment it left the house.
Only as I grew older did the difference become clear. Friends would stare a little too long when they saw photographs from our holidays. Questions began to surface, first curious, then edged with something sharper. By the time we reached adolescence those questions had hardened into judgement. Suddenly the body I had always inhabited without thought became a topic of conversation, a source of sideways glances, a thing that required explanation. I felt the shift like a change in the weather.
Around eleven or twelve, my first instinct was to retreat. I reached for a bikini the way other girls reached for theirs, hoping the fabric might make me invisible in the right way. For a brief, uncomfortable stretch I tried to conform. Yet the experiment did not last. Almost as soon as I covered myself, a deeper instinct rose up and pushed back. The insecurity that had flickered to life began to transform into something far stronger: pride. As my body blossomed, I discovered that it was not an object to be hidden or managed. It was simply mine. The more I allowed myself to be seen without clothing, the more I felt at home inside my own skin.
I watched many of my friends travel a different road. They catalogued their perceived flaws with painful precision; thighs that were “too much,” stomachs that weren’t flat enough, breasts that arrived too early or too late. They compared themselves endlessly to the carefully filtered images that surrounded us. I felt none of that. Naturism had already taught me a quieter truth: a body is not a project to be perfected; it is a place to live. While others wrestled with mirrors and magazines, I was learning the simple freedom of existing without apology. In many ways, the lifestyle my parents had given me spared me the full weight of those teenage body battles. It gave me a head start on self-acceptance that I only fully appreciated years later.
Whenever the chance arose, I chose to be nude. At naturist resorts, or in the more relaxed coastal towns of France and Spain, I would slip out of whatever clothes I had arrived in and feel the familiar relief of air against bare skin. The environment itself seemed to encourage honesty. People of every age and shape moved around without the usual armour of fabric. Conversations happened at eye level. Compliments, when they came, were often simple and sincere; “You look so comfortable,” or “It’s nice to see someone your age so at ease.” Those words, spoken by complete strangers, settled into me like sunlight. Each one reinforced what I was already beginning to believe: my body was not something to be ashamed of. It was something I could inhabit fully and without fear.
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