{"id":3429,"date":"2018-03-21T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/?p=3429"},"modified":"2018-03-10T15:07:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T14:07:35","slug":"a-naturist-guests-view-on-asking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/2018\/03\/a-naturist-guests-view-on-asking\/","title":{"rendered":"A naturist guest’s view on asking."},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s naturist’s view is from a fellow naturist who sent me his remarkable but also fabulous experience while in Amsterdam, waiting for a connecting flight. Here’s Colin’s story.<\/p>\n

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I was travelling home [to the UK] from a short business trip in Germany. All was going well until my flight was cancelled because of the wintery weather. I needed to stay over in Amsterdam and quickly found a hotel at the airport. The following day, once I had checked out, I had a bit of time to pass before my flight in the early evening [which was also cancelled, but that\u2019s another story]. I considered what I would like to do and concluded that I would enjoy a swim.<\/p>\n

I just lacked 3 things: a pool [even the hotel that I had just left did not have one], swimwear and goggles. Finding a pool was a matter of using\u00a0booking.com<\/a>\u00a0to find local hotels and filtering to show ones with a pool. There were two that looked promising, so I hopped on a shuttle bus. At the hotel, I explained my problem and asked if their pool was available to non-residents. The woman said that they had no policy, but I was more than welcome to use the facilities [free of charge!]. So, one problem solved and, as I can manage without goggles, I only needed to address the swimwear question.<\/p>\n

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Actual photo from Colin’s experience.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

My first choice would be to swim nude, as this is always my preference. I figured that Holland is quite a liberal country, so I might be able to get away with it. Otherwise, I guess I could have worn underpants. I headed to the pool changing room, got undressed, wrapped a towel around myself and went to the pool. There were two other users; a pair of young women, who, it turned out, were also English. I explained my \u201cproblem\u201d and said that I would be OK to wait until they were finished, if they were embarrassed by someone\u2019s nudity. Their response was to say that I should just carry on – they did not care. So, I had a very pleasant swim.<\/p>\n

The moral of the story is: if you want something [in my case, the use of a pool and permission to swim nude], you should just ask. What is the worst that can happen?<\/p>\n

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Thanks for sharing this, Colin!<\/p>\n

If you, dear reader, have a story you’d like to share, don’t hesitate. You can reach me through my contact page<\/a>, or go the old-fashioned way and drop me an e-mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s naturist’s view is from a fellow naturist who sent me his remarkable but also fabulous experience while in Amsterdam, waiting for a connecting flight. Here’s Colin’s story. I was travelling home [to the UK] from a short business trip in Germany. All was going well until my flight was cancelled because of the wintery … Continue reading “A naturist guest’s view on asking.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,12],"tags":[424],"class_list":["post-3429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-naktivism","category-nudism-2","tag-amsterdam-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3429"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3440,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions\/3440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}