In view of a rather long hiking day yesterday and an expected thunderstorm this afternoon, we only made a short hike to the waterfall, which we had already visited the day before yesterday. We didn't have to sweat today at 20 °C, closed cloud cover and light wind.

The schoolgirl and her father from Westphalia had, like many others of us also, lots of fun in the waterfall and in the natural pools. The two had taken a day off on Tu 31, when we had been there already.

After that, we split up:

Some continued the hike. Sagenweg: Der verlorene Brotlaib [en: Path of sagas: The lost loaf of bread]

The tent group went back. Some had decided to spend the afternoon in the Alpen-Therme [en: Alps Spa] Bad Gastein. There, they enjoyed the pleasure of bathing, sat in dry saunas or outside in the hot whirlpool with their heads in cooling rain.

Others also returned, experienced an opening cloud cover, increasing sunshine and enjoyed again minimally dressed food and beverages at the same mountain alp as on 31 July.

Some of the English naturists visited Bischoffshofen and witnessed bicycle races for children, adults, music and dance. They bought for money, collected in the group, very nice, personal little gifts. In the evening, when we sat together after the jointly prepared and consumed dinner, they presented the gifts to the initiators to say thank you for the voluntary, labor-intensive preparation and the time experienced together.

Since four of us from Germany, Ireland and Singapore go to Saxon Switzerland on Friday after breakfast to participate in the nudevents over there, Allan (England) and Antonis (Greece) have announced, to send natury pictures of the last hike of NEWT 2018.

We would like to thank the iniators (France), who made this time together possible for the second time in place of Richard Foley, and the longtime leader of the tent group (Netherlands). The latter has learned original Indonesian cuisine from his Indonesian-born mother and coddles us with it one evening at each NEWT. We look forward to an international reunion by 2019 at the latest.

Text: Rainer