The majority of naturist sporting events are usually based around swimming pools, volley ball or mini ten courts. Usually played very ‘gentlemanly’, with no agro, in fact quite genteel!
But if you are looking for more of an adrenaline rush……look no further!
Walsall Ace Karting is opening the track for another naturist night of speed and fun on 20th September 2008.
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Yes another Eden; another paradise opening up it’s portals for Naturists. Link to Eden Project Article for detail on naturism at the Eden Project in Cornwall.
This new venue for Naturism is being held at The Tropical World complex in Roundhay Park, Leeds, and will open for one day on Saturday 20th September 2008 from 7pm – 10.00pm for those who want to combine nature with naturism. Though of course, you don’t have to be a naturist to visit at any other time!
Tropical World was actually created 10 years prior to its more famous ‘southern’ cousin, and boasts the UK’s largest collection of tropical plants outside Kew.
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This has to be one of the most unusual hotels I have heard of. Set high up in the Andes, because of the excellent clear skies and lack of light pollution, lies the ElquiDomos Hotel. It was designed by a famous Chilean architect Nicolas Fones and opened in February 2005.
It is the only astronomic hotel in the southern hemisphere (apparently there are 7 astronomic themed hotels worldwide) and has 7 rooms built as two storey domes with living rooms downstairs and the bedrooms on the upper floor with detachable roofs to enhance the star gazing experience. Each dome is equipped with its own telescope (of course), and large wooden terrace and astronomic literature.
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Posted by Jackie Hewett on Fri 22nd August 2008 at 01:39 AM, Filed in Europe, September
It is said that the Galway Oyster Festival is Irelands longest running festival and as it celebrates its 54th occurrence in 2008 this may be right. The festival lasts 4 days (in 2008 from Thurs 25th to Sun 28th Sept).
There’s a lot more to do besides scoffing Galway’s finest oysters and quaffing the ‘black stuff’ (as Guinness is the official sponsor). There are a number of parties and black tie balls with ticket prices ranging between £20 and £175, you can go and watch the world oyster opening championship or Oyster Pearl beauty pageant (to become the face that represents the festival the following year) on the Saturday or even enter and win a heap of prizes including a £3,000 Raymond Weil watch. In addition there are many free events and music around town.
The festival is held in September because it is when Galway’s wild oysters come into season, which was also traditionally a slow time for tourism. In 1954 the owner of the Southern Hotel started it all with the first Oyster Festival Banquet (34 guests attended) in order to fill up his hotel at this quiet time of the year. It obviously worked and now it’s difficult to get a hotel reservation anywhere in town as thousands go. It has been listed by the Sunday Times as one of the 12 greatest shows on earth
Whilst there are many underwater concept hotels that may or may not come to fruition here is one (albeit one room only) that actually exists.
It is a concept by the artist Mikael Genberg and consists of a floating red wooden room, beneath which is suspended a ‘human aquarium’ (where the bed is situated). The bedroom floats three meters below the surface of Lake Malaren in Sweden. Guests are taken by inflatable boat 1km into the middle of the lake where the room is situated, and left alone, unless they have ordered the ‘delux’ stay whereby they will get a later visit bringing their supper.
Whilst the room does have a heater and is closed during the winter months I am sure it could prove a little chilly sometimes so take plenty of layers…..oh & book well ahead!
