On re-reading Ian's Menorca report, I was amazed to realize the coincidence. My wife and I too holidayed in the same area in Menorca, a month later, at the beginning of June. We chose to stay in Santo Tomas rather than Son Bou. We too followed the cliff top walk between there and Son Bou. It was described as a rough route in some of the guidebooks, but after the initial scrambly section the path meanders along between fields and the cliff tops with only gentle gradients for some twenty minutes walking time, ending up at sea level at the end of Son Bou's beach.
As soon as we set foot on it, I realised that it was an ideal route for naked walking. Clear blue sky, temperature in the mid twenties and no wind. Ian will know what I mean.
It is overlooked at a long distance by a very expensive guest house, but so what? It is the type of place that in my days of early morning runs I would have been seriously tempted to cache all my clothing and run completely naked. We spent the rest of the morning sunbathing nude at the Platja de Atalitx, the little cove that featured in Ian's first geocache.
On the way back I decided to go for bare, and reduced my attire to sunhat, sandals and rucksack. My wife was amused, and when I donned a pair of shorts when we eventually met another couple coming the other way, said 'I wouldn't bother!'
We made the return trip on two other days while we were there. I (naturally) followed my wife's advice and each time I did most, or all, of the distance naked, not feeling it necessary to cover up when passing others. I did make an exception when we met two horse riders...
There was no apparent reaction - either way - from the people that we met. The one exception was two rather noisy English (male) tourists, who went rather quiet when I was in view.
The last walk back was early on a Sunday afternoon when the path was quite popular. We did pass a family with two young sons, but I recalled seeing them earlier in the week crossing the naturist area of Binigaus beach on the other side of Santo Tomas, and I decided that one more naked body would not be a problem.
On one of the other days of our holiday, we too visited Binigaus beach. Leaving my wife there, I ventured further west along the Cami de Cavalls track which eventually leads to more, remote beaches. I didn't get that far, but with only a sunhat and sandals I thoroughly enjoyed myself. The only person that I met suddenly found something incredibly interesting on the horizon to study...............
It later occurred to me that Ian and I could have achieved the ultimate irony - two members of this forum walking naked in public, and covering up when they met each other!
Neil
