1998 June/July: My correspondent says Romanou is a village north of Pilos on the Peloponnese. The beach is easy to find. Just drive into the village, follow the sign to the beach. Near the sea there is on your left hand a parking place, keep on riding. Follow the sand road as far as you can. At the end of the road you find a beautiful long beach. The beach is visited mainly by Greek men. There is some cruising of gays in the dunes behind the beach.

2010: Another Barefooter, visiting in late April, reports that, perhaps because of the last sentence, an environmental catastrophe has been perpetrated on this beach. From end to end the vegetation on the dunes has been flailled and the whole mixture of sand and fibres regraded by excavator, so that until it (re)consolidates, it is even difficult to walk on it (especially barefoot!). Only one incongruously small patch of bamboo has escaped out of several hectares so treated. A large development on the north side of the river must be blamed for this. So, don't go there until things have settled down a bit.

Instead head south from the little horseshoe rowing-boat harbour (you will have to leave your vehicle there) to the next bay, which is almost as large, with high dunes at the back and a modest formation of palm sunshades below the trees that you come to first. When I asked one of the men putting out the loungers about nudists, he said "Yes, nudists" and smiled… There are other delightful, smaller bays beyond, past Petrochori (a very minor hamlet), with offshore rocks to keep the swell down, but at the time of visiting there was no-one there…

2011 June: There are no signs of dug-up areas now and the beach near the southern end still had naturists dotted about, there were no textiles and not many people on the beach as it was a windy day. The new resort, Navarino Dunes, a bit further along the beach, fronts onto the beach but the guests tend to stay near the resort. If you park at the Northern end of the beach near the village of Rikia, you can walk south down the beach and go naked except probably in August. As mentioned by another contributor, there are various bays to the south where you can usually go naked, sometimes you have to park your car by the road and just head across the farmland to find your bit of beach.

2015 August: Great beach, central part occupied by Navarino Dunes' guests, southern and northern parts almost deserted even in August and great for nude sunbathing and swimming.

2019 August: We saw the southern part but there was a construction site behind it and it wasn't as nice. North of the resort is very quiet, the sea is great and there are a few free campers. You can park your car 15m away from the beach and choose any spot to your left (south) to strip. Initially, we were all alone, but some time later another nudist couple from the tents arrived.

2020 July: Failed going there, no sign at the road to "Golden Sand Apartments". Following the main road we went to Golden Sand beach which is totally textile.

August: Visited the part north of the Costa Navarino Resort and found other nudists there. However, this year the last 30m of dirt road passing by the Golden Sand Apartments (see here) is accessible only by 4x4 cars and there is no spot to park before that. So we drove off and parked here, after KOA beach bar and walked to the south. After passing the next beach bar (Oasis), we found a spot with a couple of other nudists. I recommend going a bit to the north or south of the Golden Sand Apartments exit, because hotel visitors use that spot.

2022: Visited again this year and you can find many spots for nudism between KOA Beach Bar and Golden Sand Apartments.