Whenever we go on holiday abroad we always really try to get to know as
much as possible about the country or island we are visiting and see as much of it as possible. One of the
nicest ways to do this is by going out for walking trips on tracks, paths and moni-paths to
discover villages, beaches, old monasterys and churches, castles and forts and
just enjoy the general scenery as well as often meeting the local people.
Our topics give information about things like costs for car-hire, food, buses, beaches and so on
to help give an idea of what the place is like for a holiday. Our site content is also orientated towards walking
but we think our photos and descriptions do show off the various locations for non-walkers too for sightseeing
and touring trips whilst on holiday. We do enjoy visiting beaches (rather than using swimming pools) and love
sunbathing (best of all some nice nude swimming, sunbathing and even taking nudist walks) so on many of our
travel destination pages there are a series of beach photos and often indications on which beaches are used
by and are fine for naturists.
Note - there are no nudist photos on our site - our content is suitable
viewing for all ages.
Greek Island Holiday Guides.
The Beautiful GREEK ISLANDS are
particularly good to travel too and visit preferably as early as possible in the Spring. Apart from the peace and quiet
generally not associated with summer holidays on the islands you can enjoy Greek Island Walking
when particularly some of the islands are covered in wild flowers, lots of
different birds around and the mountain streams still have plenty of water
in them (Lesvos and Andros are brilliant for hiking in the Spring). Flying
times out to the various islands is around 3 or so hours although quite a few of
them don't have commercial airports so it's not unusual to have to do
the final leg by ferry, flying dolphin or fast catamaran - all good fun and part of enjoying a
Greek Island Holiday. Also if you are travelling to the Greek Islands in early Spring you may have to get
to them by ferry anyway since many holiday companies don't start up until May or so. That means you
will have to suffer some Island Hopping - it's a hard life island hopping of course.
It's great to go off hiking in the hills and countryside on a Greek Island
using it's tracks, kalderimi, moni-paths and paths and then finish off the
day by stripping off and getting your back and other bits globally warmed on
a beautiful -possibly- deserted beach you have found.
An additional bonus if you like getting out and about is that many of the Greek Islands
have now been mapped - often quite accurately - which is great for Greek Island
hiking trips. On the individual island pages (our holiday guides currently
cover the Greek Islands of Lesbos, Symi, Skiathos, Kos, Santorini, Lefkada, Thassos,
Crete, Samos, Naxos, Skopelos, Alonissos, Andros, Lefkas, Patmos, Lipsi, Skiathos, Mykonos,
Sikinos, Paros and Paxos) we have sometimes mentioned relevant maps all of which are
now easily available from book shops or web site based map stores. Also we must
mention the excellent "Sunflower" series of books - we always check to see
if a relevant edition is available before going to a "new" island.
As mentioned early in the holiday season when things are pretty quiet i.e. perhaps from
the end of April and on through into early June possibly the nicest way to visit
many of these Greek Islands is just by using the extensive Greek ferry system and Island
Hopping - often you will get really excellent deals for accommodation on
offer as you get off the ferry and you get the Spring beauty of the islands
as a bonus. The other "good" time to visit the Greek Islands is just as the
always busy Summer Holiday season eases back - maybe the second or third week of
September although if looking for package holidays the chances of getting nice
low offers is somewhat remote. Please visit our GREEK ISLAND
Holiday and Travel Guides.
Gran Canaria Holiday Guide. We thought that
apart from the obvious attraction of it's beaches GRAN CANARIA was also excellent for holiday sightseeing -
the round island has lots of forests and barrancos to enjoy seeing up in it's mountainous
interior and there are also an extensive series of paths out in the hills and forests plus plenty of
walking available around the island's coastline.
Gran Canaria has plenty of really great beaches to explore and use
whilst on holiday - one of the best know is the huge beach area at Maspolomos. which is also well
known for it's extensive sand dunes.
Maspolomos beach is well used by naturist and you will also probably find nudists in amongst the dunes. It's worth
noting that much of the wide beach located between Faro and Maspolomos is red flagged due to bad currents.
Locations and Places of interest for sightseeing and visiting whilst on holiday in Gran Canaria.
Playa des Ingles. A sprawling area full of hotels which seamlessley joins into Maspolomos.
Puerto Rico Lots of people stay here for their holidays - the hotels and apartments are built right up the sides of the barranco and go quite
a distance inland as well. Has quite a large and pleasant sandy beach.
Puerto de Mogan. A lot of building occurs further up the barranco but this seaside holiday area and port is
quite pretty and would be our first choice to stay at on a future visit. There are plenty of restaurants and bars, a lovely harbour area with fishing boats
etc. which is perfect for an evening stroll after your meal and Puerto de Mogan has a really good beach.
Mirador/Pico and the Caldera de Bandama. South of Tafira the Mirador
is certainly a place to visit, offering excellent views of Las Palmas and the surrounding countryside.
Tejeda. Don't miss a trip out to this small town located in the
centre of Gran Canaria but do go early since loads of coach trips turn up every
day. Tejeda probably has the nicest looking church on the island.
Fuerteventura Holiday Guide. The often windy Canary Island of FUERTEVENTURA is about a four and a half hour flight
from Gatwick in England and is well known for it's surfing - however we like
going on holiday to Fuerteventura for it's fantastic
beaches (especially the naturist beaches) and excellent track and costal walking.
Fuerteventura beaches are excellent for naturist to use and there are some really enjoyable nude beach-walks possible as well. You can find quite
isolated beaches if you prefer to be more or less alone or you can go onto the often quite busy beaches around the sand dunes north of Caleta.
Our Fuerteventura pages have lots of information about Corralejo and it's extensive sand dunes, Caleta de Fuste, Costa Calma, the
brilliant and wildly deserted Jandia Peninsula, Las Playitas and its Barranco and black sandy beach, the Lighthouse at El Faro de Entallada, a scenic drive
around Cardon, and the really nice town of Pajara.For walking on the island we have described quite a few walks - from dunes to coastal hiking
to walking up extinct cones and also out into the lava areas - these walks are all accompanied with many photos.
Lanzarote Holiday Guide. The Canary Island of
LANZAROTE is quite different to it's neighbour Fuerteventura - it is a particularly unusual and scenic Canary Island and has a lot
to offer for a holiday with it's excellent beaches, great sightseeing around the coasts, volcanic areas and of
course it normally enjoys lovely Canary Island weather to help with a hard day out at a beach.
Walking on Lanzarote: Lanzarote is a great place for walks and on our Lanzarote Walks
page we have described 11 walks all of which are packed with pictures. The walks are a mixture of one way or circulars and vary in
distance from just a few kilometres to longer and quite tiring 20km efforts.
Lanzarote's Beaches. Possibly the best Lanzarote beaches can be found in the south
of the Island around 
Playa Blanca. Playa de Papagayo
is probably the most well known but there also great beaches at Mujeres and Pozo. As with most Canary Island beaches they are generally available for both
naturists and non-naturists i.e. you can take your pick whether to be sunbathing and swimming in the nude or not - it's up to you with nobody (usually) getting excited about things.
One of our favourite beaches for nude swimming and sunbathing was at at Playa de Famara - a really wild and scenic beach with it's backdrop of rugged colourful cliffs and gorgeous waves
- but no facilities.
Various Lanzarote locations and places to consider visiting whilst on holiday:
Salinas de Janubio - Lanzarote's huge saltplan area.
Los Hervidores - you can watch the waves pounding in through blowholes.
El Golfo - with it's unusual bright green water lagoon.
La Geria - Parque Natural de los Volcanos - Timanfaya area.
Teguise - a really nice little town which also has a large Sunday market.
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