An American's First Time In A German Sauna... 

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Sauna so hot the beard had to go for added ventilation.

As a swede i'd die before talking to a stranger on the subway but id get naked next to one on a bench in a sauna without batting an eye

meanwhile kevin brings his 5000 watt hair dryer in the sauna

Beardless Tank is a very strange mixture of Kevin and mainly Nico

I still remember the Jackson Nipplegate at the Superbowl halftime show, and as an European I was confused, why this was such a big thing.

Oh no! The pyro got Tank's beard after all!

Tank didn't know how well he was going to get to know the band

Thanks for sharing this! For us Europeans it's véry entertaining to witness your European adventures. Enjoy your time at home and give Claire and Ingrid a hug. And I like your new look!

I worked in Germany for 2 months for an internship, my boss there gave me some kind of voucher to go to a german spa place and being Finnish, I expected a normal sauna experience. I wasn't ready. Didn't know EVERYTHING was nude and mixed. Being very socially anxious person, the meditation/resting room in a silent spot did wonders. Overall really enjoyed it

I am Dutch and around 1990 I lived for 5 years in the USA and I for sure noticed the different views about nudity. I got a postcard from my sister for my birthday portraying her children (around 6 years old, I think) in her kitchen and I proudly showed this to my american colleguas and they immediately reacted shocked. I had no idea what was going on. They pointed at a calendar with a beach picture and some women sunbathing topless. Nothing sexual, nothing weird. Just sunbathing and drinking some soda. I hadn't even noticed it. It was just a calendar with sunbathing people. My colleguas were really upset. Naked breasts on a picture in the kitchen and children around!! I was wondering like: How do women breastfeed if children cannot be confronted with a naked breast or nipples? Do they blindfold them?

Who is this guy, and what happen to Tank?!🧐

Wait until Tank learns learn about FKK ;)

Sauna was awkward exactly once for me. When I met my college Professor and her secretary who gave me a deadline extension on a paper the day prior. She did tease me about it, but ended up saying "don't worry, even in a pinch, students are not required to stop living".

Holy shit this is the first time I've seen you since you trimmed the beard! Looks awesome man. I had no clue id never seen this much of your face before. 😂

Congratulations Tank !!! The Sauna experience is excellent to your mind and soul. Believe me, I know. As an Estonian, in here we have a heavy sauna culture, and even heavier in our neighbours, The Finns !!!!

For any curious Americans, if you have Slavic friends here and they h.own their own house, vhances are at least some of them will have a sauna/banya in their backyard, it's worth asling around. There may or may not be tea and alcohol involved 😂

Did a traditional smoke sauna in winter in Finland a couple of times (with aufguss, there were a couple of hardcore Germans in the group) at a certain point the walk through the snow and dip in the ice hole in the lake becomes something you very much crave.

i'm starting to enjoy these types of videos (stories about the tours / your experiences in other countries / etc.) WAY more than i imagined. The cultural exchange is super interesting and i love listening to your stories. Thank you Tank ❤

You HAVE to visit the Sauna of the Therme Erding near Munich! Biggest Sauna in the World as far as i know... They have a section called "Stonehenge" and there the "Celtic Throne Sauna". The REALLY hard Ones sit on the Throne on Top of the Room. Best Experience i ever had in that Sauna, was a "Rammstein Aufguss"! Three "Saunameister" waved with big Flags at us, and three different Rammstein Songs were played. In the End they threw the Leftovers of the crushed Ice in the Crowds... One of the hottest, exhausting, but most FUN Infusions, i've ever had! I'm a frequent Saunauser - two to three times a week (annual ticket at the Caprima in Dingolfing), and i nearly have no colds anymore. One of the good sideeffects of Sauna.

I actually met my wife in a German sauna (we're from Germany). Thing is, being flirty does not work in a those saunas, it sort of breaks the code if that makes sense. We only really spoke after both of us were dressed again. 😁

About 7 months after working at a new place as manager, me and my boss were driving around the country meeting some clients. We went to a Sauna on that trip, my first time to one actually. You will accept your fate after 2 minutes and just really don't care anymore. As Tank mentioned the minor things you don't know, like placing a towel down before you take a seat were the only weird things later on. Also if you ever go to a Sauna you might get a key for your locker, be sure not to let it touch your skin. 90°C _air_ is tolerable but _iron_ not so much, it's like touching the inside of an oven.

oh sweet you were at LAGO....right in my hometown. amazing that you liked it.

I have often met American tourists who had trouble adjusting to our sauna culture, especially the fact that you normally mustn't wear anything in a German sauna. >

Please give us more story's . Love them.

When i was in the german military i was on a training course in preparation for afghanistan and there were several nations, also us troops. In he evening we had a nice cold beer and went to the sauna. They had the exact same reaction at first

Sauna -> Shower -> Relax -> Sauna -> Shower -> Relax...do this 3 oder 4 times and you feel like a new born, its amazing.

I'm an European living in Seattle currently. I go to a spa where most people are naked and facilities are not segregated by gender. It has a sauna and a hot tub. There's people of all ages, and many are regulars. The hot tub is outside,so you can sit in it while it rains. Your observations are valid for many places in the US, but the liberal states on the coasts don't share that culture. It might be because they are less religious. I'm not saying the naked saunas are standard, but even at the gym that I go sometimes that has a small sauna (which is in the bathroom, which is segregated by gender), not all women are covered.

Happy to meet you at Sweden Rock, was nervous to call out but you were super sweet. Thanks alot for making my day!

For me as a fellow german with a small sauna in the basement who enjoyed sauna with my best friends since we were kids its so interesting to see your point of view in this. Thanks for sharing ❤

Loved the video Tank! As an US-German myself, I had a good laugh. In part because my childhood was not only in the States but in the South, I´ve now lived in Germany for roughly 20 years. I had to get over myself as a kid and was surprised a lot by what kids my age then thought was normal. To this day I´m aware how much of my american upbringing has influenced how I think. On the other hand I have shocked my american family more than once, either because of how open I am about a lot of things, be it simply about going out to bars with friends or going everywhere with public transport. I´ve fallen in love with Saunas and while most are textile free, there are some that are clothed and there are some that have sectioned days. And to be honest I think some of my family would have a heart attake if they knew. My Dad (american) remembers some of the culture and forgets sometimes that I´m used to a lot of german stuff. I also may have shocked a partner (german) when we visted my family. Too be fair I warned him and he didn´t believe me and thought I exagerated. Well let´s say he needed a few days.

Just seeing this and am reminded of my first experience at a sauna in Germany. Our tour guide showed us the local pool and left those who just wanted to swim to do their thing. He then took the more adventurous of us upstairs where there was a full blown sauna level. One large sauna, one steam sauna, indoor hot tub kind of thing, two cold plunge baths, and an outdoor salt bath. None of us were prepared for the instantly naked tour guide showing us how everything worked. Nor were we prepared for the traditional 'Aufguss', which is a ten minute session in the sauna where they pour scented oils on the coals and fan the hot air around. It was wild. But after the initial awkwardness, you get to a stage of 'whatever' and just go with the flow. I will say though, if you ever make it back (which seems likely), you should definitely hit up Therme Erding just southeast of Munich. That place is bananas. It's in a blimp hanger, divided into 3 sections - Waterpark / saunas and pools (with clothing) / saunas, pools, and massages (sans clothing). There's something to be said about being in a sauna where they're cooking fresh bread and then swimming naked up to an in pool bar to have a pint......

Man Tank with the short beard looks younger but also more mature at the same time 😅

I just love how clean you feel after a good Sauna Day. You've never been really clean until every pore on your body has opened up and flushed out every bit of dirt and other filth. Like you really feel as if you could breathe through your skin.

Ооо, heard this story on twitch 😎 Just wanted to mention - you speak about Europe vs USA, but Europe is very diverse. Customs are very different from country to country

As a German who doesn't like Sauna i had a very similar experience in 2015 in Tokyo, when our host took us to the Onsen. It helped me that the culture was different to be able to just go with the flow and follow the instructions because eventhough the other poeple were looking towards our group it didn't feel judgemental but appreciative about our "effort" to enjoy a part of their culture.

My wife was very stressed out from work (company going bankrupt) last Friday so i said lets go do a sauna evening (There is a Spa 1km from our house with 9 saunas etc) . So we did and she was totally relaxed after and had a good sleep.

Yeah, the sleep I get after a sauna session is incredible. I absolutely love going to the spa. Hot sauna, cold water, good food and thermal baths are just a great combination, especially during the winter. And the "Aufguss" is always the best time. As soon as the humidity rises you sweat like crazy and after the shower you feel exhausted (in a good way), relaxed and so incredibly clean. Good for you that you tried that. I've had colleagues from the US who couldn't bring themselves to try it. They don't know what they are missing.

Enjoyed hearing this story and I hope you’re enjoying your break!

Tank, thanks for sharing these experiences. Travel to other countries and engaging with the culture is a great way to open one's eyes and broaden the mind.

to me, sauna is like a quality of life feature. going to sauna for an afternoon, i feel like reborn.

Awesome story. Fun to here these culture stories and you having fun with the callboys. I went to austria for a few seasons where we also went to saunas, which was pretty new to me. One of the first times, we were invited by the city's in the valley so all ski instructors new about the place and would recommend it to the guests. What i didnt really think about until i stood in one of those hot rooms, that also meant all the really really fit female ski instructors. Ofcourse it became normal fast but the first few minutes i really really had to think about margret tatcher naked on a cold rainy day.

Aufguss sauna is amazing and relaxing! Definately one of my favourites! Happy you got to experience it! Greetings from Sweden!

Wait until you've had a FINNISH wood burning sauna, FInland is after all the country where the sauna is originally from! Also it's not pronounced sawna, it's saUna I do have to give props to the Germans though if they consider 90 degrees sauna "starting easy" I have had saunas even hotter than that and I can handle it for a few minutes, but I do not find it enjoyable once you get above 90, I usually prefer keeping it around 70 and staying in there for longer instead Sauna is EXTREMELY relaxing and very very healthy in several different ways, it helps with losing weight, decreases the risk of any sort of heart disease etc....

Rain after being in the sauna is awesome, only snow is better.

Really wanna try and get over there just for the experience. Thanks for sharing 🤘🏻

If you happen to be in Cologne try the Neptunbad. It's a pretty good Sauna/ Spa with also a Steam Sauna and a cool music pool, but you only hear the music, if your head/ ears are under water. The water is pretty warm, you just grab a pool noddle, put your ears under water and float around. It's sooo relaxing.

Okay, it might be just me having a unique experience, but my parents would allow me and my brother to go with them in the Sauna when we were just little kids. Like literally 3/4 years old. We would sit at the lowest steps or at the floor and leave once it got too hot for us. Our parents would regularly check in with us and ask us questions about how we would feel. So we were fairly used to it and allowed to go on our own at just 10 years old. It was a great experience, getting to know your own body and it was great for me in particular, because I struggle with raspiratory infections a lot and going to the sauna, heating up the body to an artificial fever and then cooling down again is great to fight off any illness before it can really break out. It also helps with my blood circulation issues and very low blood pressure.

I‘m German and in elementary we had swim classes. We had group changing rooms for the entire class where we all got completely undressed and changed the way we would at home. At the age of 9 I moved abroad briefly to an American school and the biggest culture shock I had was all of the girls in the girls’ changing room disappearing into toilet cabins to change or putting on their swimsuits over their underwear and doing weird acrobatics to then remove their underwear. I thought it was so weird. Even to this day I don’t really understand.

@TankTheTech. It's nice to hear you say "After a while, i didn't care anymore", because that's so true. It's awkward the first time for like the first half hour or so. Once you notice that no one is like staring or so because you're naked, you start caring less and eventually you're also walking around completely naked without a care in th world. I wanted to mention that some saunas do have a restaurant where you eat and drink naked (off course with a towel on the chair or just wearing the bathrobe. Your next visit you'll probably just feel awkward for the first 5 minutes and all other sauna visits after that, there won't be much awkwardness anymore.

Ich freue mich das du die deutsche Sauna so magst und das du dich getraut hast auf deutsch dein Essen zu bestellen. Großartig!

I've heard so many stories from European bands that first come here and the nudity thing here almost gets them in trouble. Nergal from Behemoth said first American tour they stop the van by a lake during the daytime they just strip down and go running for the lake and their tour manager (American) stopped them and was like you can't do that here. I have a friend from the Netherlands and he always talks about how uptight and weird we all are because he just went to the hot tub at our old condos naked. Americans are so uptight and male everything weird. I have never been to Europe yet but I can't wait to experience people that don't go out of their way to make everything so weird.

Learning about other cultures is amazing and expends the mind.

Wow. Congrats. Sauna is amazing when enjoyed like that. I especially love to go in winter when the outdoor area is covered with snow (which still does happen once in a while here in the Taunus area) . It´s wonderfull to relax outside.

Growing up in the north of Germany, I remember as a kid beeing in the sauna with the adults at a public spa now and then. As long as the kids are not annoying the rest by being wild (it's supposed to be a relaxing experience), they could be there as well. And why shouldn't they?

Love the stories and being able to actually see your smile with the shorter beard. You look happy and healthy 😊 and props on just going for it with the german, the best way to learn I think. Enjoy the home time with the family 🫶🏼

I can only reccomend the saune Tank and the boys went to. The lago is such a little gem and I've went there many times with some of my friends. Come winter time, we used to go there once a month and have a very relaxing time. They also hold events there, where they do stuff like finnish and russian sauna, where you get different infusions and different additives like salt or honey to treat your skin with. Really looking foward to going there again come winter time :) When Tank put in the screenshot of the map I instantly knew where the boys took him :D I'm very happy he had such a good time here and enjoyed the Ruhrpott in all it's glory. Including the currywurst.

So lucky for you that it was a sauna with age restrictions. There are a lot that also have kids in them. 😉 It's more a "kids are loud and annoying" thing - when there is age restrictions it's because of that, that the location is more relaxation focused. There are "Thermen" (Spaß) with a family focus. 1-2 weeks ago here we had "Lange Saunnacht". 9 hrs Sauna with 8 infusions (Aufgüsse). So nice 😍

Looks good with the shorter beard! I personally love saunas and go with friends. Ah! "The termen" we have those in the Netherlands as well. Now you understand why lots of European people find the American way of thinking about this weird. Your story is amazing ❤ Aufguss is amazing for the senses!

just another instance of tank being an utter chad. great video, very entertaining.

Well, my wife and I once walked into a sauna in Bavaria with about 10-12 people inside - and we were the only ones naked. It was our culture shock as Germans in Germany.

I'm from Poland and I don't go to saunas very often, but basically most of your description about the situation is how I feel too. Especially nowadays, when saunas become more common, people are more open about the fact they don't like to be seen naked and stay with the towel on or see other people naked (which often means they don't use saunas that often lol.) Back in the days in Europe, it seems like people were afraid to speak more openly and actually say out loud if they felt uncomfortable, especially when saunas felt like something that was fancy and not for everyone. I guess it's mostly personal thing, not that much of a cultural difference.

Clearly hanging out with Nico has had an influence on Tank. The two beard bros. Well trimmed beard suits you very well. If you ever travel to Finland, then do try our sauna culture as well. The saunas are not so much different than Germany, but we have separate dressing rooms for women and men. And we don't have this aufguss tradition.

When I lived in Germany as a kid I remember during the summer a lot of parents would allow their kids to swim or run through the water naked and it was normal. Going to the sauna, or group showering was just normal and no one cared, and then I moved back to the US and everything was really prudish and super separated. It was a really humbling experience when no one cared.

There are often mixed saunas in Gyms aswell in Germany. I started going this year and it feels amazing. In my opinion it also does wonders for bodydysmorphic tendencies since nobody judges how you look. It's a place for the sole purpose to sit and sweat together. Can highly recommend!

that tells how mature a culture is.

I was recently in Cologne in sauna and it was super cute how they had that specially trained dude to do the aufguss :D But... we were not allowed to drink beer nor talk. In Finland we just follow set of firm rules: 1) You pour water - you are last one to leave 2) while sitting on lower levels - you do not pour water 3) you piss on rocks - you'll end up behind the sauna 4) you shit on rocks - you'll end up behind the sauna 5) you body shame - you'll be used as stoking material and finally 6) you do not nail the planks from above for obvious reasons

The beard! 😲 As cool and stylish the beard was, you look easily 10 years younger. :)

Good for you and I'm happy you had a great experience.

😂 As a German who loves going to the sauna in winter it was such a delight to listen to your experience. If you ever get the chance go to H2O in Herford, NRW. The sauna park will blow your mind. They have saunas I‘ve never seen anywhere else. Like a special effect sauna, where the program changes in heat, sound, light etc. and they also have a 360° Sauna with a huge screen in it and you have your lower legs in water and so on. I love it there so much. 😁

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Greetings from Germany. Hope you can come back for the next EC tour! Oh, and I absolutely love your shaved beard! Looks a lot better (to me) than the long thing you had before. 👍👍

So as a part time worker in Spa both Walter and Aufgussmeoster (Infusion Master) that was really enjoyable to watch and hear. For reference in a sauna it is recommended to stay in there for about twelve to fifteen minutes deomding on the temperature, but if you are practiced and well hydrated you can go quite long. So sometimes if I go to the sauna and it is very full I go in like 15 minutes before the infusion and go out after the infusion ends for about 30 to 40 minutes in total which again is nitnrecommended for the average sauna guest but yeah gotta decide getting a place or boiling. Also 90 degrees is not really beginner friendly would have advised to go with 70 degrees first.

We absolutely do have changing rooms where people change before kids in Germany. These changing rooms are usually not mixed, but the kids are mixed (moms go with their girls AND boys, dads go with their boys AND girls). When I went swimming with my father as a little girl, it was totally normal for me to be with him in the men’s changing room and see naked men there - and of course they did see me naked too. Edit: Usually kids (at least from the age of three upwards) are allowed in our saunas. Yes, in our textile free mixed saunas. I never visited a German sauna where kids were not allowed. In my favourite sauna I see a lot of kids of all ages.

I enjoyed your account of the Sauna. Yes it’s very natural for us and we don’t give it a second thought! Glad you enjoyed your sauna experience. It’s the best way to get rid of stress and very cleansing.

I love the Lago Therme. It's great and it's not only a sauna. There are outdoor pools, indoor pools and a few salt water pools and one with artificial waves. Oh and Tank got the full shock intentionally, because there are gender based and textile saunas in Lago where they could have gone to. You have four sauna areas in Lago - A male and a female area with 4-6 saunas each, a textile (swimsuit) sauna area with two low temperature saunas and the biggest area is the mixed sauna with about 12 sauna with temperatures from 60-110C (140-230F). The mixed area has a big sauna garden with paths. Each area has it's own locker area. I prefer the mixed gender, because it has the most options of saunas to choose from and I prefer the really hot Finnish saunas that are in the garden and are are over 100C. To explain Lago a bit. You pay and enter a locker area where you leave your street clothes and change into swimsuits or just a bathrobe if you only want to go to the sauna. Then you walk through a shower area and the pool areas and at the end there are doors that led to the different sauna areas and behind these doors is another locker area where you can leave your dry towel, bathrobe, swimsuit etc. and then you can shower and go into the sauna. About only adults - no. Younger can go to the sauna, too. But if I remember it right a kid should be at least 4 years old because of health reasons. Younger kids can't regulate their body temperature enough to handle a sauna. If you take a younger kid with you they tell you you do it on your own risk. And another reason is that sauna is for you to relax and if the kids isn't able to be quiet for some time they ask you to leave the sauna area. Because of noise there are some thermae that forbid kids under 12years to enter at all and not only the sauna area.

Yay more fun stories!

Happy you had a nice first German Sauna experience! A nice little culture shock 😉 Greetings from Germany

Nice you had fun here 😂 in the Sauna the humidity is more important then the tempeture, in a dry Sauna you can take more temp

Here in Finland sauna is often around 110-120 Celsius degree at the end of the day if people keep adding wood. At that point nails in the lauteet (bench/whatever) burn like hell if you sit on them. Happens in old saunas often. Almost can hear the sizzling.

It makes me really happy that you have such good experiences in Europe/ Germany to the extent of even thinking about moving :)

Oh cool, Herne. Been there a couple times. Wouldn't expect a big concert/festival to happen there (or was that in Dortmund?).

Sauna.. the beatiful agony :). Thanks for sharing that story.

Short beard Tank is something I was not expecting to see, but I gotta say it fits ya buddy

At Sinsheim Sauna they do a techno Aufguss... craziest shit ever, but amazing lol

In Belgium you also have large sauna areas. When I go with friends we always make it a day trip. Arrive around 11am and leave at closing time, for example 9pm. Sometimes we go for a couple of hours after work. Everyone comes there to relax and enjoy. no one is concerned with the nudity. The infusion sessions are great, and indeed sometimes hot, but you are reborn afterwards. What is also nice are the quiet spaces where people can read or take a nap. And of course the environment where you are, namely nature, makes you relax even more. Of course, there are also people here who do not go to the public sauna at all, but prefer a private sauna or they go to the public sauna on the day where you have to wear swimwear. Most saunas have a swimsuit day😅 So great that you were able to experience this and enjoyed it.

Everyone is on equal terms in the sauna.

I was in the military, so showering with other dudes was just a daily thing in boot camp. We even had a mixed shower on one part deployment, wasn't too weird. Just became normal after a while.

It took me a few days to click on this as I didn't recognize you and didn't know why RU-vid was showing me this. As for sauna, sounds like heaven. It's probably been 40 years since I had a sauna. My dad was 100% Finn, his aunt had a sauna in the basement. As a child I stayed there almost every weekend as that was where my grandfather lived. They would light the sauna at least once a month and it was so heavenly. Throwing water on the rocks was fun. There was also a shower right there in the sauna so we could rinse off with cold water at the end if we wanted to. Closest I get now is take a super hot / long shower and fill the bathroom with steam. Then go stand out on the back steps in nothing but shorts and slippers in the dead of winter. As far as naked in front of people, that doesn't bother me. We always showered in gym class starting in JR high school and most weren't hung up about it. I miss those showers as well. The ones with so much pressure that it almost feels like it could take your skin off.

Thanks for sharing that story! Watching this as a Finn with a lot of American friends I wasn't surprised about how you felt, and about the cultural background affecting. So glad you gotta to experience German sauna and "just went with it". But, you need to somehow get yourself to a Finnish wooden smoked sauna by a lake, a proper one. Somewhere, someday. 😂

An extra like for bravery 😁👍 You went in unaware. When realizing what it is all about you then could have left, tho. But didn't. Glad you enjoyed it in the end.😎

Nudity: bad! Guns: good! - Americans

I loove that you're soo fascinated by our culture, i mean, you're more open about german culture than i am as a german! I'd love to hang out with you

I was on rock am Ring a few weeks ago and saw electric callboy. Such an energetic and fun performance! Great work!

While I've never been to a European sauna, I did experience public bathing in Japan. At a few of the places we stayed there weren't private bathrooms, only communal ones. First big one for us was in Miyazaki, Japan. There was a 2 shower room with a bath per male and female areas. At the time I was not transitioned so I was in the female area. Almost all of the girls just said fuck it, we wanna get showered and go to bed so we all went in and showered. The guys on the other hand?? While the Brazilian guys went in together, only two of the American guys did it so they all ended up being up way later cuz they were too scared to get naked around other men. A good example of how Americans view nudity is with my current workplace. We have a game with an art theme and part of the set is books. Well we have to go through all the books and sharpie over any nude artwork or rip out the pages. God forbid anyone see a painting with tits out.

I lived in the Ruhrpott area from 2000 to 2009 in a city called Herne literally around the corner from the place you visited (the spa is called "Lago - Die Therme" and is located in the Gysenbergpark). I visited this place quite often and really enjoyed it every single time. There are two areas: - The textile spa area, in which you find various pools (e.g. 2 different saltwater pools with different salt concentrations (I think they were 6 and 9% salt concentration, if I remember correctly)), a wave pool, water slide, restaurant, beauty area, solariums, etc. pp. - The textile free area Here you will find the saunas (both indoors and outdoors), relaxation zones (including a relaxation zone with waterbeds), massage beds, etc. pp. The large pool in the outdoor area is not a saltwater pool. There are also many loungers in the outdoor area, which you can also use. There are a couple of spas (in German "Therme" (singular), "Thermen" (plural)) overall in Germany. The world's largest spa is located in Erding in Bavaria (28 different waterslides, 24 saunas, etc. pp). Unfortunately I haven't been there myself, but I've heard a lot of good things about it.

Awesome 😄 If you ever get the chance to visit the Sauna in the Therme Erding near Munich: They have a Viking themed Sauna where they do the Aufguss to music like Valhalla Calling and not with a towel but with a giant flag.

OMG i saw the thumbnail and had no idea why i'm subscribed, then i realized it's tank without long beard. on the topic, i'm German, we have a sauna in our basement and i used it since i was like 12, recently i went to Japan and Iceland and on both trips i got naked with strangers, in Japan the Onsen and Iceland the hot springs. i swear i don't choose my holidays for that...

I've got another one for you... Cap d' Agde on the French Mediterranean Sea coast in summer. We just returned from a beach vacation there. 1 mile of beautiful sandy beach, I estimated between 15.000 and 20.000 nudist people on a hot Sunday. ;-) I did my walk on the waterline every morning, without cloths, sun on your skin, feet in the water and a little breeze around the balls. Good fun.

Holy crap, nice look!

Tank, you didn't need to assuage my beard envy by trimming it! 😂 But thank you for being willing to broaden our American horizons while broadening your own. It is really great to hear about new to us cultural differences.