Lins and Nick, the naturist couple who make a living traveling the world: "Naked you can be yourself"

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She is Lins, he is Nick.

Together they form a couple with growing popularity in the networks.

Like other

travel

show seductive landscapes, but these thirty-somethings do it naturally.

Without impostures.

No taboos, literally.

The photos speak for themselves.

They tell of their adventures on the Naked Wanderings blog.

With that naturalness they have passed the pandemic.

The border closure in March caught them in Cuba, but they had time to catch

.

There they spent the next three months in a small town on the Pacific coast called

, with "one of the most incredible nude beaches in the world."

The couple, who have known each other for 12 years, discovered naturism in a spa in Belgium where they only allowed them to bathe naked.

"It was a big step out of our comfort zone, but we jumped in and loved the experience," Nick explains by email.

"Soon after, we wanted to explore other places that we could enjoy without clothes."

In the National Park of Tayrona, Colombia.

For Lins it is an excellent way to travel.

"It's so easy ... You don't have to worry about what to wear and whether your body will look good in those clothes.

. Also, some things are more fun when you're naked. Swimming is probably the best example. Once you try the nude dive, there is no way back to the bathing suit! "

They also quickly realized that the information about naturism available online was almost always boring and full of rules.

"What we had discovered was a fun lifestyle, places where

and are kind to each other, and a

."

That's where the idea for the blog came from: naturism through the eyes of Lins and Nick.

Twenty countries and three years later, Naked Wanderings is a

.

From the naturism of South America, where the movement is quite young, to that of Thailand, which attracts many different people and cultures.

"In Thailand, we have shared a table in naturist spas with Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Muslims, atheists ... Religions that in the dressed world do not get along, but when they are all naked they can become a single community."

And, of course, Europe.

"You just won't find

anywhere else in the world."

In Zipolite, Mexico.

Getaway to Alicante

The couple was in Alicante last year visiting the Finca Pura Vida and Lavinia complexes.

"In Spain we love that there are so many nude beaches. Even in non-nudist ones we notice that

. The fact that many women sunbathe topless says a lot about body positivity and the general acceptance of nudity."

Nick and Lins admit that they themselves did not dare to tell anyone that they were naturists.

"We were afraid of being judged, that people would think we were weird or perverted, but when we started to tell it we realized that it did not arouse negative reactions."

Nudes in the networks

And the strict rules of social media?

"On Facebook, we lasted about a week. We thought non-sexual nudity wasn't a problem. It definitely was. So we had to adapt."

That is, they resorted to self-censorship.

In his photos there is always some element of the landscape that covers just what Facebook does not allow to reveal.

The advantage is that "it keeps a lot of perverts away. Our photos are too boring for them."

This too has become part of their brand.

But even though they follow the rules, naturism has its risks.

"Last year we lost our Instagram account with about 50,000 followers. So we had to start over from scratch," Nick laments.

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