65@65 LOCK-DOWN SWIM - ON HARDWICK POND
Today, work continues in a stutter-state of conference calls, Zoom, Skype, Teams, Hang Out, the local-to-Oxford platforms; I never...
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Apr 4, 20204 min read
65@65 SWIM LOCK-DOWN
This is a new world, somehow surreal and strange, new yet not new to the world. Surreal. With surrealism, dream-like states allow fish to...
LXVswim
Apr 2, 20205 min read
65@65 SWIM #52 DAY'S LOCK, RIVER THAMES
The loneliness of the social-distanced swimmer. I miss you all, and it’s only been a week or so. Pauline and I are nostalgic about the...
LXVswim
Mar 24, 20203 min read
65@65 SWIM #51 MINSTER LOVELL, OXFORDSHIRE
I was to have been in Italy this week, at the Slow Food Foundation. I have work there two sometimes three times a year. It is always...
LXVswim
Mar 20, 20202 min read
65@65 SWIM #50 TOOTING BEC LIDO
South London Swimming Club are framed as the opposition by the Serpentine Swimming Club, at least when it comes to the annual races...
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Mar 18, 20205 min read
65@65 SWIM #49 LA BANCHINA, COPENHAGEN
La Banchina isn’t Italian, it is firmly Copenhagen in a cockle-shell. It is a café in a run-down shed on the canal front in a brown field...
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Mar 18, 202010 min read
65@65 SWIM #48 KULTTUURISAUNA, HELSINKI
Approaching this place of calm and swimming from the very centre of Helsinki seemed straightforward, until Pauline and I encountered...
LXVswim
Mar 13, 20204 min read
65@65 SWIM #47 ALLAS SEA POOLS, HELSINKI
This Winter has been disappointing, at least in the sense of not being cold enough. I had been looking forward to breaking ice on the...
LXVswim
Mar 5, 20203 min read
65@65 SWIM #46 KASTRUP SEA BATH, COPENHAGEN
One great thing about Kastrup Sea Bath, or The Snail, or the Conch, is that it is easy to get to. Two stops from the airport on the...
LXVswim
Feb 21, 20204 min read
65@65 SWIM #44 SERPENTINE SWIMMING CLUB, HYDE PARK, LONDON
“Ser-pen-ti- ine, my Serpenti-ine, Ser-pen-ti- ine, my Serpenti-ine”… A musical fruit-loop from the Serpentine Swimming Club Christmas...
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Feb 17, 20203 min read
65@65 SWIM #43 LAKE BOHINJ, SLOVENIA
Jeremy and I drove (well, Jeremy drove) from Bled on day two of the Winter Swimming World Championships to Bohinj, just under an hour...
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Feb 10, 20204 min read
65@65 SWIM #42 WINTER SWIMMING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, LAKE BLED, SLOVENIA
Very exciting to be able to attend and swim at the premier gathering of winter swimmers at Lake Bled, Slovenia. The king and queen of...
LXVswim
Jan 24, 20204 min read
65@65 SWIM #41 PHISH, PARLIAMENT HILL LIDO, LONDON
PHISH time – the now almost-annual event of the winter swimming brother-and-sister-hood of the cold water. We arrived in London in good...
LXVswim
Jan 20, 20206 min read
65@65 SWIM #40 HAMPSTEAD HEATH MENS POND
The day started with two auspicious moments. The first was seeing the sun rising from the infinite mist on the horizon of the M40 on the...
LXVswim
Jan 15, 20203 min read
65@65 SWIM #39 PORTHLEVEN, CORNWALL
Past ‘Nauty but Ice’ – an ice-cream parlour on the harbour-front, past ‘Rick Stein’ – an expensive sea-food restaurant on the other side...
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Jan 13, 20203 min read
65@65 SWIM #38 ST IVES, PORTHMEOR BEACH
St Ives had/has a significant artists’ presence, if not colony any more. The names that have lived here is far surpassed by the names...
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Jan 9, 20203 min read
65@65 SWIM #37, PENZANCE, WITH THE BATTERY BELLES AND BUOYS
I was swept away by the incoming tide of Susie and Philip’s kindness and warm hospitality in Cornwall. Susie invited me to swim some of...
LXVswim
Jan 2, 20203 min read
65@65 SWIM #36, NEW YEAR’S DAY DIP, WEST OXFORDSHIRE SAILING CLUB
New Year’s Day and all are dipping after promising, resolving to do dry January. The United States and Canada have their polar bear...
LXVswim
Jan 2, 20202 min read
65@65 SWIM #35, CHRISTMAS EVE, THE THAMES AT IFFLEY LOCK
This one was unexpected, but should not have been. Emma had a swim-aversary, she had swum every day for a year. Every single day,...
LXVswim
Dec 17, 20193 min read
65@65 SWIM #34, DEDHAM VALE, THE RIVER STOUR
There are many good places to swim in Essex, especially on the coast, being mindful of the high tide to avoid muddy shallow estuaries....
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