65@65 SWIM #33, DODO!
Dodo – December Outdoor Dip Oxford; Dip Outdoor December Oxford; December Oxford Dip Outdoors. I am never sure how it goes, but however...
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LXVswim
Dec 13, 20191 min read
SINGLE USE PLASTICS AND THE GARBAGE PATCH STATE
Plastics in the ocean again - 'there is no elsewhere’ when it comes to garbage. The Garbage Patch State is multicentred, with a total...
LXVswim
Dec 12, 20193 min read
65@65 SWIM #32, COIMBRA, PORTUGAL, THE MONDEGO RIVER
Birds fly south in Autumn / Winter, people find their break - from short days / beige-brown landscapes / mud / rain-sleet / perceived...
LXVswim
Dec 2, 20195 min read
65@65 SWIM #31, KLAMPENBORG, DENMARK
I got off the train at Klampenborg once previously, for another purpose and not to swim. This was to go to the art museum Ordrupgaard...
LXVswim
Nov 28, 20195 min read
65@65 SWIM #30, LOUISIANA, HUMLEBAEK, DENMARK
Wild(ish) grey-white horses, rolling in from Sweden, tussling into shore. That’s what it looks like from the top of the hill, grey into...
LXVswim
Nov 27, 20194 min read
65@65 SWIM #29, MALMO, SWEDEN- RIBERSBORG KALLBADHUS
Today I am in Malmo, which they say is in Sweden, but some (many here) would say Skane. There is a very strong Skane identity – the...
LXVswim
Nov 20, 20192 min read
65@65 SWIM #27, LAKE ZURICH, STRANDBAD MYTHENQUAI
Strandbad Mythenquai is on the other side of the lake to Teifenbrunnen, and closer to the centre of Zurich, easy to get to. I wasn’t sure...
LXVswim
Nov 19, 20192 min read
65@65 SWIM #26, LAKE ZURICH, STRANDBAD TIEFENBRUNNEN
I arrived in Zurich bright and early – certainly early, and not really so bright, having left home at four in the morning to get to...
LXVswim
Nov 14, 20192 min read
65@65 SWIM #25, ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK COAST
Getting to Aldeburgh as the sun set, in civil twilight, a burst of red across the low clouds, and the moon, pale and waxing still but up...
LXVswim
Nov 12, 20191 min read
65@65 SWIM #24, WALBERSWICK, SUFFOLK COAST
I dropped Pauline at Heathrow this morning, after a dip in Port Meadow (to put her mind in a good place), and after saying goodbye, I...
LXVswim
Nov 6, 20192 min read
65@65 SWIM #23 VENICE BIENNALE
The Venice Biennale is overwhelming, especially day two, at the Arsenale. Day one was at the Giardini, getting off the water bus...
LXVswim
Nov 5, 20191 min read
ART NOUVEAU AT THE LIDO
I associate the lido idea, at least in the UK, as being part of the turn of the twentieth century and the interest in health and hygiene...
LXVswim
Nov 4, 20192 min read
65@65 SWIM #22 LIDO DI VENEZIA
Since I am including the Lido in my list of permissible places to do ‘65@65’, the opportunity to do ‘65@65’ at the world’s very first...
LXVswim
Oct 31, 20191 min read
65@65 SWIM #21, THE THAMES, FROM TRUSS'S ISLAND TO CHERTSEY BRIDGE
This felt very much like the last longer one before winter sets in. Thanks to Juliet and Hywel - lovely company, lovely day - the sun...
LXVswim
Oct 30, 20191 min read
65@65 SWIM #20, RIVER THAMES, FROM RUNNYMEDE TO TRUSS'S ISLAND
I have swum a number of times at Runnymede, with the Swim The Thames Group, and across the years when two of my children went to Royal...
LXVswim
Oct 30, 20191 min read
65@65 SWIM #19 - SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN THE THAMES
Port Meadow, Oxford in the morning, Hammersmith in the evening. Changing by the dodo tree in Oxford and watching the sun rise at water...
LXVswim
Oct 30, 20191 min read
65@65 SWIM #18, DRESDEN, RIVER ELBE
Swimming in the location that the Dresden Winter Swimmers swim at. The river is fierce, but just by the Augustus Bridge there is a back...
LXVswim
Oct 30, 20192 min read
65@65 SWIM 17, LEIPZIG SCHREBERBAD
One of Germany's oldest lidos, Schreberbad opened in 1866, the original basin was fed by the River Elster, which we crossed on the way. A...
LXVswim
Oct 29, 20192 min read
65@65 SWIM 16, SWIM TO WORK, EYNSHAM LOCK TO PORT MEADOW, OXFORD
From Port Meadow, Perch-side, you can see the church tower of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. I see this tower from the other side...
LXVswim
Oct 24, 20191 min read
65@65 SWIM #15 - UPPSALA, FYRIS RIVER
Small but dignified, the river flows through this this beautiful Swedish city. There are lakes not so far away, but this was a swim...
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