Hi, Just been told that there is green mud on the beech thats meant to have helth properties, is this right. Cheers Viv
hiya viv, your right about the mud, but i dont no about the health properties. the mud is i think down the end of the beach by the nudies part i think :D have fun :D
Arillas in North West Corfu has a special charisma. The beach hills consist of a kind of clay that is normally used for local pottery goods.
A lot of people paint their body green with the local clay of Arillas.
As it dries on your body, it gives a smooth surface to the skin.
Actually it is nothing less than these body and face masks provided by most healing clubs all over the world.
I have seen some ladies taking some clay stones with them while leaving the naturist section of the Arillas beach which is on the very left and very right part of the beach.
In some places in the world like France they even drink it as powder mixed in water for medicinal use.
Soon I will have a full article about the clay of Arillas in our web site.
See you, :idea: :arrow:
(http://www.arillas.com/clay.jpg)
Hi Dimitris, Thanks a lot for the reply, it all sounds very intresting looking forward to seeing the site. See you in October. Cheers Viv
yi all
i have used the mud at the nudist beach and i must say apart from looking a complete *$%£ i does seem to purify the skin also if you are starting to burn it cools the skin down and stops you from getting sore.
maybe i will see you soon
norm
Hi Norm & Sandy, Yes hope to see you soon, won't we look silly covered in green mud witha red cornation so we reconise each other. By the way where will you pin yours?
hi ya
who needs a pin? :shock:
norm
ummmm ohhhhh
The mud clay is especially good if you have burnt your skin and you don't want to subject the skin to anymore sun - just cover the burnt bits and carry on! Its cool.
Aly
Hello Viv,
i have often seen people covered in this mud(usually Germans),but they wash it off after a couple of minutes.
Hi all, We {12 of us} went to the beach to cover ourselves with the mud this summer when we visited. It was great fun and ous skin felt great afterwards. We plastered it on and waited for it to dry, and then went in the sea to get it all off again. There were quite a few others doing this as well as us. I could show you the photos, but I'm not goin to! :oops: Try it next visit everyone. :D
Hi, you could send them through thepm system, would love to see how silly we are going to look in October. Cheers Viv
its not going to look silly!ive done it 1000 times!!it makes ur skin really soft and its wonderfull!im afraid u wont recognize urself in front of a mirror but i think its cool :D :D
Aline
\Can't wait. Hope it dosen't rain and wash the mud of before it dries. Haven't seem long term weather but don't care.
:lol: 8)Vivian,
I've been watching it and the weather has been very good for the time of year- lets hope it keeeps up! 7 days and counting
Ivan
Hi Ivan, Bet your all of a twitter now, How long are you there for, we get there on the 1st Oct. Can't wait. Viv
:lol: :lol: Viv,
We will have to "suffer" for a whole fortnight. Just starting to orgainise stuff for packing and it's starting to feel real at last. We'll maybe see you there?, esp. at Dimitris just about any night.
Regards,
Ivan
Hi, Hopefully we will be meeting Mick and Jill in Brouklis on the everning of Sat 2nd Oct, so may run into you and Sally at same time. Have a grrrrraet time. Viv & Pete
Hello everyone... the mud is FUN. Barrels of fun, especially if you are two or more persons and paint each other from head to toenails...
I hope placing the image works as I expect it... :-) it shows my girlfriend & me making wild faces - notice how you can model your hair when its "mud-enhanced" (the picture was taken last year):
(http://www.neurowerx.de/pix/mudpeople.jpg)
The perfect mud recipe: take a plastic bag to the beach, collect some of the mud and crush it (it is very soft stone), then fill the bag with a little bit of sea water & let it "ripe" in the sun for an hour or so. Then crush the remaining mud pieces & fill with sea water until you have a smooth paste, and the wild painting can begin. Its so much fun, you have to try it at least once.
I've seen people adding olive oil to their mud mixture, but I really do NOT like this, after all you're going to wash the mud off in the sea and then the oil is in the sea, which is not very nice. :-(
And Dimitri is right: after you washed off the dried mud, the skin is really very soft & smooth, feels very nice - in other places, people pay a lot of money for that! :-O But take care of mud remainders in your ears & elsewhere ;-) ...it makes really nasty stains in your towels! :-D
Greetings from cold & grey Germany... :-(
Alexander.
What an excellent picture. Which end of the beach is the mud as we have never seen it.
Wow, can't wait. only another 4 days to go. The mud is on the naturist part of the beech. Viv & Pete
Addition: be sure to pick the "pure" green clay-stones... you'll recognize it on your way towards the naturist beach... (there's some claystone cliffs you pass) ...that gives the smoothest mud-paste. :-D
Greetings,
Alexander.
Thank's Alexander, speak to you when we get back, all smooth feeling. Viv :wink:
aww nice picture :D it's really funny!
so bad weather these days :( it's raining and raining and raining....though today i went with my school bus up to Afionas and the view was WONDERFULL! dimitris must take a picture and show it to you...the sea was dark blue and the round from Gravia was very light blue with pieces of green.... it was really beautifull!! :D :D :D u must see this people!
Aline
Hello Aline,
We would all love to be there to see the beautiful views for ourselves :cry: I bet your rain is a lot warmer than ours :wink:
I love Afionas and go up there quite a lot when on holiday, last monday we had a lovely breakfast in the Panorama and the sun was shining, unlike the Saturday when it rained, rained, rained :roll:
:idea: Perhaps you could start a 'daily column' just like a journalist with little snippets on Arillas to keep me and the other forum members happy throughout the winter until we return to Arillas next year. :D :D :D
Eileenxx
oh god!! :cry: next year Eileen that seems so long away!! what are we going to do till then??!!! :(
Marie,
Do you know that there are Christmas flights going out to Corfu ?????
I don't think I should encourage you! :roll: :roll: :roll:
Eileenxx
that would be great 2 go then only i have to buy christmas presents and i have no money. :cry: :lol:
i suppose ill just have 2 wait till July!! :roll:
what do u mean u dont think u should encourage me? :lol:
Quotewhat do u mean u dont think u should encourage me?
I should not encourage you 'else your mum will maybe get mad at you for spending all your money and daydreams in Arillas!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: (just like the rest of us!!)
Eileenxx
oh i get ya now Eileen!! :lol:
if i had the money im sure my mum would come 2, her daydreams are there as much as mine!! :lol:
yeah this is a great idea Eileen!! (btw some people are confusing my name with Eileen cause it sounds the same hehe)
so...today its sunny and hoooooot!!but im still wearing a jacket...the sea is cold cold and i freak out everytime i see tourists passing by my house with Bathing suits :shock: but the fact is that we all thought the weather would be horrible today, so we're suprised!! :D :D happy daydreams :wink:
Aline
Hi, it seem's we had been waiting for ever to try it out and it was worth it all, we had a great time painting each other and then baking in the sun, we could feel our skin tighterning up as the clay dried :roll: and yes the skin did feel softer once we washed it off, which if im honest did surprise me a bit as I did feel that perhaps these claim's had been excaduated. We had lovely weather all week and you wouldn't have thought it was October we did the mud thing twice and spent the rest of the time just getting the ray's and chilling out. Wonderfull. Yammos Viv & Pete
Green mud Ha! I cant wait to try it.We had a laugh 2 years ago near La Manga in Spain .They had Black mud .All the elderly locals would go & cover themselves with it. We had a go ...What a sight.Didn't seem to do my complexion much good tho!lol
The clay does a good job on your skin, leaves it feeling as soft as a babies bum, however as it has exfoliant, (hope i spelt that right lol), properties i recommend only using it on the first or second day as you will lose about one days tan ....and thats what most are here for, see you 5th June 06
John
have to admit, we have photos of me b******k naked covered in green mud. It was spread over me by a quite attractive German woman, amongst a large party on Arillas beach. No difficulty - Jen was sat watching - it wasn't about that either. But when I collected the pictures from Safeways the assistant said "you're quite well off..." and you can work out what you think she meant - I don't think she meant that!!!!
lol Phil
Dont think she meant WHAT ? lol Viv
Just love the way topics suddenly come to life after being dormant for ages. This one had no posts for 18 months.
Enjoyed watching a large party of Germans this year covering themselves in the green mud. Will take some pics next time, but was unsure of the etiquette, perhaps its OK so long as I don't take them to Tesco for printing.
Regards
PJ
Hi P.J. Ask them first otherwise you could find that they get a wee bit upset with you. lol Viv
Hi Viv
Thanks for the advice. Was only kidding - but they were photographing each other - does that make a difference?
Am jealous that you will be in Arillas at least one week before me!
Best wishes
Pat
Hi P.J. so was I hehe, when we covered ourselves in mud for the first time we actully had a couple ask us if we wanted them to take a photo of us together with our camera, so pleased we said yes as I often laugh at it. Viv
There's nothing like a photograph for jogging the memory and bringing back thoughts of happy times. Good job we usually only take pictures of the happy times though!
PJ
Talking photographs, here is a (censored) version of a pic that Jen took of me doing the green mud in 2003. Uncensored versions on PM application!!!
(http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/7507/greenmudmodestjk2.th.jpg) (http://img90.imageshack.us/my.php?image=greenmudmodestjk2.jpg)
like viv, I agree - stay nude, it ain't rude!
lol
phil
Not rude at all but still thought I better only put the censored version on here. Viv
(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g262/viviankizzysmum/things%20for%20Arillas%20web/DSCF00042.jpg)
Nice pic viv. I chuck my togs off every night. In 1968 I wuzzed along a beach in Coruna. The best. I love freedom. I also respect anyone in vision though.
I might scare them.
O heck I didnt think of that, I was just thinking how silly we looked, but it did feel good and I would recommend it to anyone. Viv
We missed out on it this year. Spent far too long getting rat ar**d watching darts in Rainbow, or the film in the Nut. Loved it all though. We had so much fun... Our Arillas comes with both.
I did get greened up one day though. It was very windy. No pictures (you're so glad about that!) but you have read the story in my holiday report.
No shorts either... Who pinched them??? Admit to it and I'll buy you a big drink if you own up.
Phil
Hi all,
Yes, we did have a laugh didn't we Phil in the Rainbow playing and watching the darts, and having just a F E W drinks. Did you see this thing playing darts (http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/1782/1000297.jpg) scary isn't he - do you think he has been in the Nut too long - or is he nutty!!!
Bev & Kev
Hiya Kev and Bev!
So glad it wasn't me in that pic! Yes he looks as nutty as the rest of us. Something about Arillas, you seem to check your sanity in at the airport! (In my case I forgot to collect it on the return journey....)
We have such fond memories of all the goings-on last September, including yous two. I still wear my chav fake Burberry. Does Bev still wear hers (real of course....)
The pic reminded me of Eggy's post on the darts "couldn't hit a cow's a**e with a shovel." Well that one looks like the cow's a**e! Get yer shovel out Negg....
Hope yous are both well me luvvers. Jen and me are great as usual. Will be home in early July, but sadly September is out this year. Take care both
love, Phil and Jen
Small confession to the laundry people at Tria Adelphia.
I Did the green mud thing this year.
I then went into the sea and washed it off.
Later that day I went for a shower and dried myself using the towels supplied by the Tria.
To my horror the towel looked like I had dragged it across a muddy field.
The great thing about the Tria, is they do change the beds and towels quite often so my dirty habits did not show the next day.
And the mud had gone as well.
4x4 I sunbathe without clothes a great deal. Jen and me have done it it in Studland, in Dorset, on Brighton beach, in Rhodes, ah really anywhere the others accept.
But the clay (Green mud) in Arillas is so special. I have done it many times. Cannot endorse the skin adverts, but that feeling of freedom, innocence and joy I can. Naked and covered in clay, at one with everything, is something you understand or you don't. Well I do.
Next week Jen and me will do it all again of course.
Phil
Yes justphil. The feeling of freedom is good if only for a short two weeks.
Hope you have a great time and we get some photos to keep it all alive for us poor people left at home ))
The big question is how do you apply the mud?
Do you use it as a block and rub it on like soap or do you try and dissolve it first and then put it on.
Hi
In answer to your question, 4x4, most people seem to favour the method where you get a flatish stone, put a lump or two of clay on, then some water, and using another stone or just fingers grind it into a sort of soft paste. The clay is very soft and changes into a paste quite easily.
Hope you are now ready for your first try.
Best wishes
Pat
Hi I've never smothered myself in the green mud, but it looks just like the clay face packs I buy that really clean your skin - think I might give it a try in September
Take care
Mary
Hey Mary - Will be there in September too - so will look out for a greeny/grey lady on the North Beach.
Best wishes
PJ
I always cover myself in the mud at least once during my stay. In the past I did it before going for a walk along the nuddy beach, You feel very self conscious walking along a beach with naked people staring at you. I forgot that I had all that mud on me and wondered why I was being stared at.
that made me chuckle Mick, a clothed person feeling self conscious rather than those with their meat n 2 veg (or threpennie bits!!)on display
Hi Patric
Yeh I'll have a green face and a pair of sunglasses on!! We go 28th August for two weeks and staying at Kaloudis Village.
Take Care
Mary
WE Mary you must e-mail me ! Viv
Oh Mary - our paths are not destined to cross this year. We too are at the Kaloudis Village, but not until 14th September, so it seems you will have been and gone by then.
Never mind - perhaps you'll post a picture or two of your mud experiments.
Best wishes
PJ
Hi Patric
the green mud will only be on my face haha!!
Viv- will e-mail you shortly Arillas in September is quite a story!!
Take Care
Love
Mary
Aw, that's got us all wondering now, Mary!!
Love,
lynn xx
Like the new photo justlynn.....
Cheers, Sandy,
Evening meal at the Mirage, and I think you just may be able to see a booklet on the table. I wonder how that got there....??
Or is it a case of every picture tells a story?!
Ho-hum,
lynn xx
Hi everyone,
Thanks for all the information about the green mud. Didn't know about that!!
I suffer from psoriasis, which is a skin-illness, and the sun and the salty water
has always helped a lot. Next year I will try the mud-treatment as well!
Best regards Connie.
Quote from: sunflower on October 21, 2009, 02:36:32 PM
I suffer from psoriasis, which is a skin-illness, and the sun and the salty water
has always helped a lot.
My hubby has the same problem but two weeks in Arillas and it clears up almost totally!
So there you go, not only is Arillas a great place to be, but It's good for your health as well. What more can you ask?!!
Hurry up Mary. Viv
Hi forum folk
Yes, I agree Viv, we are still waiting to hear about Mary's September in Arillas. Hope she got the green mud in the right places!
Best wishes
PJ
Hya Viv and Patrick.
I did the green mud thing on my face, but have no photographic evidence. It did make a lovely facepack ,wish you could buy it here. I did post a full holiday report complete with photos. here is the link
http://www.arillas.com/page/option,com_smf/Itemid,165/topic,5178.msg70957/lang,en#msg70957
Hope you enjoy it
Love
Mary
Thanks for that Mary. Don't know how I missed your report and super pics - have had a good read and look at them now. Glad you tried underwater photography - it seems to have worked very well. Have you booked for next year - we are at the Kaloudis 13/27 September 2010.
Best wishes
PJ
Hy Patrick
Glad you liked the underwater pics. They were taken with a disposable underwater camera, I'm now saving up for a digital underwater camera which also takes videos for next time. I haven't booked for Arillas next year, as I don't really know what will be happening next year, just taking things day to day. Hopefully though I will be back. September in Arillas would be good and I do think Kaloudis has everything you need and it is immaculate.
Take Care
Mary :)
Viv - we both use the clay - plaster it all over - let it dry and then go for a swim to wash it off. It seems to moisturise the skin beautifully. Phil sometimes has 'cornflake' elbows - this clay certainly helps to slough the dead skin off. Just try it - its good for you. Anne xx
Glad to see the Green Mud topic revived after a long spell by Ann. It's great to know that someone else from Lincolnshire is a fan of green mud. We Yellowbellies (Lincolnshire born & bred people) really ought to find yellow mud, but perhaps the green mud is just as good, after all the county flag is red, blue & green!
Best wishes
PJ
(http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee60/patjmcn/Other%20Pics/Lincolnshireflagforemail.jpg)
(The Lincolnshire Flag)
Not only revived Pat but live and kicking as you can see from my mugshot lol
(http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w1/TNEW349484/TonyGreenmud2s.jpg)
Just love this photograph of you Tony
embellished with Arillas green clay. Will have to get Julia to take one of me next week so you can have a good laugh at me!
Best wishesPJ
Brilliant photo - how do you post photos because I have one too xx
put your pic on Photobucket Anne resize to 640x480 then hover your mouse over the thumbnail and click the bottom box of the drop down menu that appears it will say copied in the box then reply in here right click your mouse in the box where you are typing your message then click copy and its done the image wont appear until you post it though
Tony
I did the green mud in July. Rather pathetically compared to the German folks who were spreading it everywhere, and all over one another. Maybe a bit too intimately for me.
But I haven't been in Arillas ever without having a go, and my record stands. I won't have anybody to criticise me at the end of October, and nobody will be there to take the picture. But I will do it anyway, just to keep up the record. And secretly enjoy it.....
Yet another aspect of my favourite place on earth.
Phil
It seems my photo has disappeared - oh well - maybe it was a bit too revealing lol x
I think we should get to the bottom of this. Where has it gone?
pmsl @ Terry - think someone pinched it - but I never felt a thing lol x
I've got to hand it to you Anne, that was a brilliant reply...... lol
There is just one video to play now :-)
But (no pun intended) mine wasn't that white! lol
Hi Mary, read yr p re mud & Sept -- which Sept is that
an can this be seen by anyone else. dennis-up
humph!ha. that answers that. D
That post was three years ago, each post shows the date it was posted and yes everyone can see posts here as it's under a topic that members can post on :)
Hi
Its amazing how these threads go on. Viv started this one in 2004 and its still running. She was new to green mud then, but I think she knows all about it now.
I've never indulged in a green mud session myself but have had lots of fun watching other people completely cover themselves in the stuff. Some of them go to lots of trouble, gathering bits of the cliff, then pounding the clay in a pot to the right consistency before applying it to themselves or more often to someone else. After all its much easier to apply it to someone else than it is to reach all those place round your back!
Lots of people (they often seem to be the ones speaking German) take photographs of themselves in the mud covered state.
Thankfully everyone seems keen to wash it all off in the sea before returning to the village.
Best wishes
Pat
Personally Tony, I think you are looking a bit pasty in your pic...
Would that be a Cornish Pasty Jo? ;-)
It was so funny this year - we saw a group of peeps applying the mud to each other and then - doing Tai chi or however it is spelt - drinking beer from bottles and taking photos of each other - it amused us for quite a while especially as they could not do the proper stances after the beer lol. Anne x
Just gone through all this thread again, it seems so daft now being worried about looking silly. All we can think off now is getting home and feeling relaxed and at peace with the world. XX
Everybody both clothed and unclothed should have a go at this fun activity. Every year we lather ourselves in the clay at least once and kid ourselves we have found the elixir of youth haha
Jo medear, this thread was so quiet until our viv posted in April. Before that it was 3 years earlier in 2011. People still do it though I think. If the beach is as good as Sandy said in last few days, I will be very "green" at some point this summer. I will not be in a communal situation though. Jen can't be with me, so I will pick a very quiet time.
I reckon with the upsurge in folk coming to Arillas we will see an old tradition renewed.
Phil
John and I giggled our way through mud application on both our visits last year. During our second break we were even photographed by a German lady for some publicity stuff! We said yes to her on account of us both been totally unrecognisable behind several layers of the green stuff lol
No doubt we shall do it all again this year :)
Yiammas
Angela
I felt as if I was getting burnt yesterday so the green mud went on all over, some people hadn't seen it before and just thought I was mad but Sandy and Angie still recognised me. Xx
Green Mud.......so much fun washing it off afterwards.
If you have never done the green mud then do it, Great fun
Quote from: vivian on May 24, 2014, 12:39:33 PM
I felt as if I was getting burnt yesterday so the green mud went on all over, some people hadn't seen it before and just thought I was mad but Sandy and Angie still recognised me. Xx
So... first we have the "Jolly Green Giant" and then we have the "Jolly Green Diddy Viv"
Hmmmm!
Green Mud? - Sure I have eaten that somewhere and they called it pea soup.
Negg
Just seen this from away back. We did this and covered Mr. b in mud, he looked like the hulk. He loved us rubbing it in tho 🤣
HI
We do the green mud thing it makes your skin soft we also done this at the dead sea Ein gedi so much fun you can not sink in the sea we took our daughter she was much younger
(https://i.imgur.com/mUi5n5I.jpg) kevin
🤣🤣
Any updates on the condition of the beaches ? looking at the web-cam lately there seems to be a lot of seaweed washing up.All reports welcome.
Mr Egg
As i am getting a little bit on the lardy side how is the beach bigger the better I hope
Neil see u soon
Kev
The beach is still in spring mode....but there is time for improvement...
[vimeo][/vimeo]5 weeks to go, would appreciate some recent photos of the beach, soon be back for our ninth visit. Can't wait..
In my experience, you can't predict the size of the 'summer' beach until after the spring storms.
I'm told that if the storms come from the north, they'll wash the sand away, but if they come from the south, they'll bring sand in. So at the mo', as Sandy says, there's still chance of improvement ( - not that they're ever bad enough to spoil a holiday - it is Arillas after all!)
Just reread all of this post, brings back a lot of great memoris of lovely people and the banter we all used to have.xx