luis afonso

Last saturday I decided to walk a little further my usual spot. I went to a walk from a small village on the mountains just south of Porto called “Regoufa” to an abandoned village called “Drave”. To get to the first village it takes 1,5 hours by car. After, you have to walk a little more 3km through the mountains to reach the final destination.

I did not plan to make a naturist walk, but since I have known that “Drave” is abandoned for more than a century and there is no electricity, mobile phones connections and water supply, maybe would have much people in the trail, so I could make it naked.

The first leg of the trail I was behind a group that I have been trailing most of the car travel, cause they were going in two cars for the exact destination. I was hoping they were going elsewhere, but they decided to make the same trail… So, the climbing part is a little hard until you get a point that you can see most of the path.

I have waited them to take a left turn on the top of the first mount to take my clothes off. When i reached the top, I saw that another group was starting down below and they can easily see that I was walking naked, so I put on my shorts and started walking faster. Occasionally I passed the first group but I could not take much distance to re-start my naked walk. Only at few metres from the village, I saw that the path was clean and mostly secluded from the view behind and from the village, so I took my shorts off again. Just to put them on again in a few metres.

When I entered the village, it was superpopullated with a national gatherings of boys scouts groups. So, I could’nt be naked as planned. The village was build in the joining point of two mountain peaks, they were built all in chalkboard stones, with the exception of the church in white. In the middle of the village there is a river that descends from the mount and forms many natural ponds on its way. Unfortunately the bigger one was crowded by young scouts and other people, so it will be hard to have my deserved skinny diping.

So I decided to walk a little through the village and then walked up along in the river. After some time I found a perfect spot for my skinny diping. I took my clothes off, and took a dive in the secluded pool. Ate my sandwich and some fruits and refill my bottle of water with the pure water from the river.

I was in my second skinny diping when, I heard some noise. When I look above I saw a man reaching my point with no time to put my shorts on. He was with his girlfriend and It seemed they decided to climb along the river. When I saw them I stood up and said something like “sorry for being naked, but it is too hot”. They don´t care about it and while I tried to cover myself she asked me what was there up along the river, as I was not nude. I answered and they proceeded with no problems.

I stayed a little further, explored the down the river, took more dips (but with my shorts on cause the placed was crowded) and eventually met the group I passed along the way bathing (clothed) in one of the lower swimming holes along the river.

Later, I decided to go back to the original village to take my car and return to Porto. I decided to do it before 3:30 pm so it was very hard to bump into people that would be coming to the village at that time, and it was a little early for the people still in the village to start the pilgrimage back to the bigger village. Maybe I could return naked…

And it was like this. I walked back most of the 3km in a naked walk. Only met people about 100 m from my destination point.  I could see them before they saw me, so I could manage to put my shorts on before passing them.

It was a great time.

Last saturday I decided to walk a little further my usual spot. I went to a walk from a small village on the mountains just south of Porto called “Regoufa” to an abandoned village called “Drave”. To get to the first village it takes 1,5 hours by car. After, you have to walk a little more 3km through the mountains to reach the final destination.

I did not plan to make a naturist walk, but since I have known that “Drave” is abandoned for more than a century and there is no electricity, mobile phones connections and water supply, maybe would have much people in the trail, so I could make it naked.

The first leg of the trail I was behind a group that I have been trailing most of the car travel, cause they were going in two cars for the exact destination. I was hoping they were going elsewhere, but they decided to make the same trail… So, the climbing part is a little hard until you get a point that you can see most of the path.

I have waited them to take a left turn on the top of the first mount to take my clothes off. When i reached the top, I saw that another group was starting down below and they can easily see that I was walking naked, so I put on my shorts and started walking faster. Occasionally I passed the first group but I could not take much distance to re-start my naked walk. Only at few metres from the village, I saw that the path was clean and mostly secluded from the view behind and from the village, so I took my shorts off again. Just to put them on again in a few metres.

When I entered the village, it was superpopullated with a national gatherings of boys scouts groups. So, I could’nt be naked as planned. The village was build in the joining point of two mountain peaks, they were built all in chalkboard stones, with the exception of the church in white. In the middle of the village there is a river that descends from the mount and forms many natural ponds on its way. Unfortunately the bigger one was crowded by young scouts and other people, so it will be hard to have my deserved skinny diping.

So I decided to walk a little through the village and then walked up along in the river. After some time I found a perfect spot for my skinny diping. I took my clothes off, and took a dive in the secluded pool. Ate my sandwich and some fruits and refill my bottle of water with the pure water from the river.

I was in my second skinny diping when, I heard some noise. When I look above I saw a man reaching my point with no time to put my shorts on. He was with his girlfriend and It seemed they decided to climb along the river. When I saw them I stood up and said something like “sorry for being naked, but it is too hot”. They don´t care about it and while I tried to cover myself she asked me what was there up along the river, as I was not nude. I answered and they proceeded with no problems.

I stayed a little further, explored the down the river, took more dips (but with my shorts on cause the placed was crowded) and eventually met the group I passed along the way bathing (clothed) in one of the lower swimming holes along the river.

Later, I decided to go back to the original village to take my car and return to Porto. I decided to do it before 3:30 pm so it was very hard to bump into people that would be coming to the village at that time, and it was a little early for the people still in the village to start the pilgrimage back to the bigger village. Maybe I could return naked…

And it was like this. I walked back most of the 3km in a naked walk. Only met people about 100 m from my destination point.  I could see them before they saw me, so I could manage to put my shorts on before passing them.

It was great.

I am reading “Divine Comedy” from Dante and found out that in next life, we’ll have it naked.

Well, it seems. I did not come to “Heaven” part of the book, but until now in the “Hell” (inferno), everyone take their wages in the nude.

I supposed that in the “Heaven” part, this will be the same, cause if you are paying for your sins or enjoying the reward for your good deeds, no matter what, you would not have anything to hide. Not from God, that see us as we really are, and not from others.

So, nakedness is part of what we are, or is the core part of what we really are.

But I have to develop it further, cause the nakedness, for me, connects me to a real life, not the everyday life, but the real thing, and when it happen it is like you are throw to another kind of reality. Everything turns into more colorful and real, but feeling this “real me” makes me feel like I am not fully into reality, but in another level. This happens to me since the first time I got nude in the open. I have to develop it, but reading Dante, makes me recall this feeling again and again.

Ok, I accept that is common rant among nudists that "Christianism" has defined the human body as a "shame", but is entirely not real. If you read the Bible, you can take Genesis in two ways, one "actual" and other as a parabola. In Genesis, was not God that impeded Adam and Eve to be naked: when they realized they were nude they covered themselves before being in front of God. God only exchanged their fig leaves for an "animal fur". The meaning of this first sacrifice is that an innocent paid for us. Second is that having an animal fur we lost our perfect state and became like animals also. And we have to hunt and kill animals for our protection and food. It was a curse, in fact. Being naked can be a return to innocence, as I feel, for instance, or something else, depending on what your souls are inclined to. But most important is that in the history not Christianism, early Christians were baptized in the nude. Some of the prophets passed years in the nude in the old testament and even Jesus Christ was crucified naked. In today's world is very interesting that "nudist beaches" only exist in Christian countries. I was in the East and, believe me, nudity is far "taboo" than we could imagine. In Muslim countries is not even allowed a man see another man naked….best regards.

I love two things with the same ardour: Our Lord Jesus Christ and Nudism. I don't see any divergence on this but my friends see a lot contradictions. The naked ones asked me if I am serious when I said I tend to go to the church every Sunday. My Catholic friends ask me about the apparent contradiction between the nudist and faith. I could no find any. Because i really feel that the evil begins in your mind and not by what you see. In general the more naked I am the more pure I feel. Is something strange. I don't know if you feel it the same but taking away my clothes makes me feel mor humble and naive. Like a child or someone like Prince Mischkin from Dostoievski's novel "The Idiot".

The perfect naturist photo for me is the one that shows your body in a way that looks so intertwined with the surrounding environment that they become one. The inner beauty of all human beings starts glowing from inside out until it reaches the same level of the outer beauty´s glow. The frequencies are synchronized. But it requires a pureness, a naiveté that doesn't exist anymore. It requires a new you. A kind of rebirth. A new connection to life. That's what I look for. And wish you can also get the perfect naturist photo. Happy Easter.

Now I lived alone, but when I was married, I faced a very common situation: wife was not naturist. At that time it was not a problem cause it was only me and her and my naturism was confined to our home (a little apartment). She really did not care about my almost 100% nudity when the weather was fine. But always assured she will not join for anything like that outside. Final dot.
After our daughter was born, my closed naturism was finished when my mother in law came to live with us "temporaly"…
It is been a long time, but now I am separated and my daughter plans to live with me. She is 15 now and I realized that she grew very prudish when she crossed the teens.
We went to a little trip to UK during the summer so we live together that period in the same hotel room. It was very hot and dry in London, so I took my usual step to, as soon as I entered the room, take my clothes off. For my surprise, she started to complain about my nudity. I replied that she never mind about it before. But she insists. I kept naked. After a while she forgot about it whatching tv or something, we started to chat about other things and then she realized "oh, you are still naked!!!" It was funny. I never put my clothes on, but this argument was a daily routine to the end of the week.
I am wondering how can I arrange this once she is decided to live with me…
What about your thoughts on this?