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Post by Jrod1001 » Wed Sep 19, 2018 4:05 pm

Hi all,
I recently was in Europe (I live in the US)for an awesome two week long trip with my wife. We started off our first week in Italy (Naples/Amalfi coast). While in Italy we spent a good amount of time at a few different beaches. Speedos are definitely frequently worn by Italians, young and old. However not as prevalent as Sicily which I’ve been to several times (and that’s another story), where almost all guys wear speedos.
The hotel we stayed at was about 30 minutes south of Sorento. The beach next to our hotel was made up of small rocks/pebbles, which was actually kind of nice (no sand). The beach was mostly made up of chairs and umbrellas you can rent from different beach clubs (rather common in Italy), or you could lay in a few areas that were designated as a free beach. This beach attracted mostly Italian tourists, and about 1 out of 4 guys wore a speedo, and the ones that did not wear a brief had on short shorts.
We did go to Positano for a day and hung out on that beach, which is beautiful by the way and a must see. However Positsno does attract a lot of US tourists, and you see less brief swimsuits being worn on this beach probably due to that (probably 1 in 8 guys wears a brief).

On another day, we made a trip to the island of Ischia which is a short ferry ride from either Sorento or Naples and visited a thermal bath park. This place was like a giant day spa that had 20+ pools/caves/ Turkish baths of varying temperatures you could go in. Once you get into the park, you strip down to your swimsuit and walk around from pool/bath in your suit. Here about 70% of the guys wore briefs or some sort of squarecut suit. I would recommend trying this out if you are ever in Naples or Sorento. Plus you can hang out in a speedo all day.

The last part of our trip we spent in Barcelona Spain. Several of the beaches in Barcelona, I did see plenty of speedos, probably not as many as I saw in Italy.
However the beach across from our hotel had a much higher concentration of speedos, which part of this beach was nude and part was the gay beach. Here some people were nude, however more had suits on than not, and the guys that did have suits on, had on a speedo.

After all this I am ready to go back!

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Re: Europe

Post by Speedoaddict » Wed Sep 19, 2018 4:46 pm

Jrod1001 you are looking good in your avatar.
I have been looking at Italy as well as Tenerife for my hols next year.
So far the Speedo feedback has been encouraging for both countries.
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Re: Europe

Post by SEASPEEDO » Wed Sep 19, 2018 5:16 pm

Thanks for the update Jrod! And I agree with Speedoaddict, you really do look great in your avatar!

I'm leaving for Europe on Monday... will be able to hit a beach here and there... The Algarve in Portugal, San Sebastian and Barcelona in Spain and lastly the French Riviera ... as for beach wear, I"m only packing my speedo... and plan to shop for a new one or two along the way! Was in Italy a bit ago and had similar experience... mostly speedos, especially on the beaches of the Adriatic sea...

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Re: Europe

Post by Jrod1001 » Wed Sep 19, 2018 5:31 pm

Thank you Seaspeedo and speedoaddict. I took that picture last year in Sicily.

Seaspeedo- while you’re in Barcelona, make sure to hit up Mar Bella beach. It will not disappoint.

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Re: Europe

Post by SEASPEEDO » Wed Sep 19, 2018 9:39 pm

Jrod.... Thanks for the tip!

BTW, what suit are you wearing in your avatar?

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Re: Europe

Post by Jrod1001 » Thu Sep 20, 2018 5:01 am

Seaspeedo, it’s an Arena Santamarias. I have several, which I really like the way they fit and look.

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Re: Europe

Post by SEASPEEDO » Thu Sep 20, 2018 9:33 am

Jrod, Thanks!

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Re: Europe

Post by VPL » Fri Sep 28, 2018 1:04 am

i have to add my appreciation of your avatar pic. you look great!

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Re: Europe

Post by Scottiebum » Fri Sep 28, 2018 5:05 am

VPL wrote:
Fri Sep 28, 2018 1:04 am
i have to add my appreciation of your avatar pic. you look great!
+1 !
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Re: Europe

Post by Thom » Sat Sep 29, 2018 5:34 pm

Jrod1001 wrote:
Thu Sep 20, 2018 5:01 am
Seaspeedo, it’s an Arena Santamarias. I have several, which I really like the way they fit and look.
Wow. That suit works perfectly for you.


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Re: Europe

Post by Jrod1001 » Mon Oct 01, 2018 3:01 pm

Thank you for the compliments VPL, Scottiebum, and Thom. :P

Thought I’d add the larger version of the avatar pic.
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Re: Europe

Post by SpeedoUSA » Mon Oct 01, 2018 3:22 pm

Jrod1001 wrote:Thank you for the compliments VPL, Scottiebum, and Thom. :P

Thought I’d add the larger version of the avatar pic.
Looking good Jrod! Where did you get them from?


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Re: Europe

Post by VPL » Mon Oct 01, 2018 4:02 pm

damn! even better in the larger size!

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Re: Europe

Post by ChicagoDan » Mon Oct 01, 2018 9:08 pm

Thats a hot body in a hot suit, jrod.

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Re: Europe

Post by SEASPEEDO » Tue Oct 02, 2018 2:18 pm

First beach day in Portugal, in the Algarve region. A mix of speedo briefs, square cuts, nice fitting trunks and only a couple of board shorts. Nice!
Will see what tomorrow brings.

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Re: Europe

Post by NJFrenchy » Tue Oct 02, 2018 3:07 pm

At most French beaches you’ll see plenty of people in swim briefs. A lot of the younger crowd seem to prefer board shorts, or short trunks but there are still plenty of speedos. Biarritz is an exception to this because it’s a big surfing town, so it’s mostly board shorts there.
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Re: Europe

Post by Thom » Tue Oct 02, 2018 5:27 pm

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Thought I’d add the larger version of the avatar pic.
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Man, that suit is perfect. I've always liked Arena.


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Re: Europe

Post by 81mardel » Thu Jan 24, 2019 2:07 pm

Very nice!

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Re: Europe

Post by Speedoaddict » Thu Jan 24, 2019 2:09 pm

Jrod1001 wrote:Thank you for the compliments VPL, Scottiebum, and Thom. :P

Thought I’d add the larger version of the avatar pic.
Love those red Arena trunks. You have the perfect body to wear them. Which Arena model are they?


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Re: Europe

Post by swissswimmer » Wed Mar 06, 2019 1:22 pm

Yes very nice pic and arena briefs!

Of all my travels in Europe Italy is where you see speedos most. Used to vacation in Sardinia and it was easily 80% speedo. The côte d’azur used to be the same yrs ago but that’s changing. When I was in university in Nice in 80s we all went to the beach in speedos -swimmers or not swimmers. It was just normal.


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