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I remember some (a good many, in fact) years ago, there was a TV Programme which I picked up on BFBS in Germany television, something about comedians, the stand-up types, and one of the comedians amused me greatly as he declared, in his strongly Bradford accentuated voice: NOT ME..! "Tired, but happy, we wended our weary way back - from the beach"! What made it even more amusing was this accent together with the colour of the comedian's skin, he was from the West Indies or somewhere like that, certainly not Bradford! not me either..! Nowadays, it is still the truth, for many people, and a lot of them are here in my area of France at the moment. Me-Just being modest! I've never really been a beach man, but from time to time (a maximum of twice a season, if I can't avoid it) I'm obliged to present my lovely physical features (the Cap d'Agde is the world's largest nudist beach area, over 40,000 - every day - every year) to the greater public...

Ed Note: Since it's holiday time, I thought a couple of older articles on the subject would be interesting. Although many, many things have changed since we were there, and even more things have changed since the first publication of this article, I can still recall the events! *********** This isn't us, but similar to our rented car in Croatia of the epoch!  Reminiscences on older holidays and of better times....... National park in Croatia Croatia! OK, I'm talking quite a while back, the Berlin Wall was still there, a man called "Tito" was still (just) alive and in charge! I've forgotten the year now, but to give you a hint, we entered Belgrade, in our modern German Tourist bus, just a week or so before he died, and he was actually in Hospital there, at that moment. I've already written an article about the scene in Yugoslavia at the time, somewhere on this blog, but now - I'm sitting in the South of France, unusually the drizzle is...