bare cruises which was targeted at naturalists, nudists and skinny dippers will have caused some pause. Remember what happened to the last "skinny dipper'' on South Shore? Mr. Lloyd Webbe who organises these bare holidays for Bermudians says: "There are a lot of double standards in Bermuda.'' Mr. Webbe may well be correct because there has long been a very evident double standard where gambling is concerned. We all know that Bermudians go away to gamble but say we should not do it at home yet we do gamble at Cup Match and we do engage in off track betting.

The most interesting thing about Mr. Webbe's advertising is the challenge it presents for Bermuda to think about itself. We constantly hear pleas for more European tourism and we constantly hear the PLP's Tourism Shadow Minister complain that the Government does too little to promote European visitors.

It's a strange stand for Mr. David Allen to take because he was incensed by reported nudity at the old Club Med. In fact, he made endless fuss in the media and in the Senate where he then had a PLP seat. Mr. Allen complained loudly about reported nudity both inside Club Med at a party and at St.

Catherine's Beach. Yet, as a travel writer, Mr. Allen knows better than most of us that European visitors expect nudity on their vacation. Nudity is fairly standard on many European beaches and taken for granted. Europeans go to nude resorts in such places as Nassau and Jamaica. They will expect nudity in Bermuda or simply assume nudity and go nude thus challenging Bermuda to arrest them or condone nudity.

The United States, Canada and Britain are not prone to nudity and do not want it. Bermuda is used to visitors from those countries and its standards generally reflect the interests of those visitors. But Bermuda's standards of public behaviour and its standards of service in hotels and restaurants are not in tune with the needs of European visitors.

Before Bermuda moves too deeply into European visitors it has to decide if it wants the side effects. There is confusion. Mr. Allen advocates European tourism but he complains loudly whenever he hears of nudity. Bermuda can't have it both ways and we should be considering what we want before we get a bad surprise.

Mr. Lloyd Webbe says of Bermuda, "We pretend we are very conservative and narrow-minded, but it's only a pretence.'' He also says, "I feel Bermuda misses out on European tourists because there are no nudist colonies. We are one of the few places in the world which frowns on that sort of thing.'' Mr. Webbe may well be right. The important thing is that Bermuda should know what the situation is and Bermudians should be thinking about where they want Bermuda to be.