Usedom Travel Guide

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Upside-Down Travel: Get Dizzy in Germany

Where: Usedom, Germany
September 17, 2008 at 9:00 AM | by | Comments (0)

When you start running out of ways to attract tourists to your town, you have to start turning your thinking upside-down. And perhaps that's why the German town of Usedom--which had hoped to become famous on the strength of its nude beaches, until it ran into trouble on its Polish border--is now trying to grab tourists with its upside-down house.

There's just one problem. Nearly all the visitors who walk into this house, which looks upside-down from both the outside and the inside, say they feel ill. "Dizzy" and "disoriented" are feelings that often come up, and they're not really the kind of feedback you want from paying customers, except maybe on roller coasters.

It's a tricky problem because turning the house up the right way will make for a pretty boring exhibit. Perhaps they need to get the former nudists involved somehow to really beef up the tourist numbers.

Related Stories:
· Upside-Down House is Fully Sick [news.com.au]
· Free Body Culture Germans in Trouble with Poles [Jaunted]
· Germany Travel Guide [Jaunted]

[Photo: news.com.au]

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Free Body Culture Germans in Trouble With Poles

August 5, 2008 at 9:00 AM | by | Comments (0)

Remember our interest in the first nudist flight? Sadly, it got canceled due to "moral concerns"--and now another spot where Germans love to run around naked is under threat.

Now that border controls between Germany and Poland are basically extinct, Polish people on the Baltic Sea coast are able to wander to Germany and vice versa, and that means a clash of the naked and the clothed.

The more prudish Polish want the German fans of "free body culture" to cover up; the Germans think the Polish should stop looking at them so closely. The only proposed solution at the moment is bilingual signs explaining what's going on. As if that isn't already obvious to the, well, naked eye.

Related Stories:
· Grin and Bare It, German Naturists Tell Poles [UK Guardian]
· Naked on a Plane [Jaunted]

[Photo: Lyndi&Jason]

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