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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.

Today I am confused.

Last night I dreamt I was in Asia.

Not sure where exactly I was, but it was one of those vivid dreams that remain clear after waking up.

Perhaps it had to do with the stiflingly hot temperatures last night and the muggy weather.

The expected thunderstorm never arrived and the mosquitoes stayed frantic.

Luckily we had the good sense to invest into a mosquitoe net some time ago and the mossies never got to us.

But this morning, for a moment, I didn’t know where I was.

I felt the same sensations I remember from my travels in the equatorial east.

Somehow I didn’t expect to feel like this in Germany and remain surprised at the variety and ever changing environment in this country.

The forecast for today is 30 degrees celcius, followed by thunderstorms during the night.

I assume it will be quite a show.