By Erik Kirschbaum
updated 7/20/2011 11:52:21 AM ET
Fatter and fewer German nudists as numbers dwindle
BERLIN— The naked sunbathers who once crowded Germany's Baltic beaches and city parks are becoming an endangered species due to shifting demographics, the fall of the Berlin Wall, growing prosperity and widening girths.
Sorry for not posting much lately, but as usually it is not because I lack fresh material (there is actually plenty of old stuff to be published yet!), but because I haven't had enough time for updates. But I decided to tease you with a promise to get back to my blog soon, I will continue with other stories from Ukraine, a fresh adventure in South Florida (including Naked Spring Bash with the local group) and more!
Last summer I rediscovered the capital of my homelands, Ukraine. I've spent most of my adult life outside Ukraine, in Moscow and Berlin, both of which have naturist beaches within the city boundaries (Berlin has many of them), so I was pleased to find that Kiev has its own beautiful naturist beaches in the very centre of the city! Kiev boasts the mighty Dnieper River that provides the city with banks with amazing views and also gives it some forested islands, that are luckily protected and not used for mansions of the nouveau riche.
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
Aphorisms, no. 88 (1930)