Autor-Archive: Arno Wirtz

Just fibbing, wasn’t Confucius, was the Germans (after someone in the bible came up with the line some time ago) trying to find a deserted beach on a 38ºC Sunday.

Close friends say: No deserted beaches in Germany.

Wonderful travel guide say: Rubbish!

I say: Let’s seek and we will find.

Wonderful travel guide say: OK.

I say (later): Well Done!

Wonderful travel guide say: No trouble!

Close friends say: nothing

I say: Less people than on a midsummer’s day on New Brighton Beach.

Wonderful travel guide say: If you say so.

I say: Any idea why we talk like this?

Wonderful travel guide say: ‚Cause it’s rather hot and steam from tea is rising to my head.

I say: Good on you for drinking boiling hot tea on a day like this.

Wonderful travel guide say: If you say so.

I say: nothing

Confucius say: Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

When traveling I often meet people that are beautiful (on the inside I mean).

Then there’s the type that’s hard to figure.

And then there’s the somewhat bizarre variety.

I’ve got a picture of the somewhat bizarre variety that I’ve been itching to publish.

But I might not ever do so as one of the people in the photograph can be identified.

It’s a picture of a group of nudist bathers at a remote lake in a remote part of Germany.

Clearly, conservative New Zealand got to me and I found the complete nakedness and banal conversations between strangers very surreal.

I didn’t join in stripping of my undies.

It all seemed like a scene in a movie and the final impression was rather comical.

It could have been a mikey take of the Germans by the ‚Pythons‘.

It wasn’t the nakedness that was bizarre, I’ve seen this kind of behaviour before in other countries.

It was a small collection of mixed-age Germans that kept singing ‚Hallelujah‘.

Across the lake drifted religious chants by this group of completely naked people who were waving their arms at the sun.

And that I have a picture of.

It appeared that to all the other naked Germans around the lake it all seemed very normal.

What God was thinking I don’t know.