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- From: etxmow@garboc29.ericsson.se (Mats Winberg)
- Subject: Re: Beaches
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- References: <1993Jan20.161947@ece.arizona.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:16:44 GMT
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- evans@ece.arizona.edu (Glen Evans) writes:
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- >Where are the nude beaches in the nordic countries?
- >(In the summer of course)
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- Nowhere and everywhere, which means that since the Nordic countries
- are sparsely populated you may enjoy the Scandinavian summer
- in your birthday suit almost everywhere without disturbing anyone.
- Actually I know they do it almost in the center of Stockholm
- (Laangholmen). IMHO this is one of the advantages of living here -
- the relaxed attitude to nudity.
-
- The only "official" nude beach I know of is the one at Lake
- Magelungen near Farsta in the southern suburbs of Stockholm.
- It was opened a few years back but since it is official and
- therefore well-known it happens sometimes that people, or to be
- more specific men of non-Nordic descent, come to gawk.
- The people at the beach are mostly families with small children,
- elderly couples and single men.
-
- If I want to swim and tan naked I usually go to Svaardso near
- Saltsjoebaden in the Stockholm archipelago. There on a stretch
- of ca 1 km rocky cliffs you'll find a more mixed "audience" than
- that of Aagesta (Lake Magelungen). There are more young couples,
- women and gay couples there than at Aagesta. There are not so many
- families with real small children there since the beach is not so
- good for small children. My favourite spot lies on the western end
- of this stretch, it is a kind of small peninsula which is faced
- southwards so you'll have sun a long time and the water on one side
- is deep enough to head-dive into and the rock is shaped so that it is
- easy to get up again. Add to that that there is nice grass on one
- spot there (you'll have that place if you're early!). Note that
- Svaardso is not an official nude beach, however it is nude by default
- that is most people there prefer to tan without swimsuits.
-
- How to get there:
-
- AAgesta: Take the metro to Farsta strand, walk south across
- the bridge over Lake Magelungen, turn left after the bridge
- follow the road along the golf course and then left again.
- Distance to walk: 1.5 km (square H2 page 51 in the Stockholm
- phone directory)
-
- Svaardsoen: Take "Saltsjoebanan" to station Solsidan (which
- means "the sunny side" BTW) take a bus or walk east ca 2.5 km
- towards Aelgoe, then turn right just before Aelgoe.
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- Mats Winberg
- Stockholm, Sweden
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