LXVSWIM

The gorgeous rivers of England are sick, and I am sick too. Of the politics, of the discharges into the rivers. Of the effluent, both...

I could feel it all over again this Christmas, the sense of deja-vu, of raw sewage running between my fingers and toes. The Oxford DODO...

‘I can feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes’ – ‘The water’s all around me, and so the feeling grows…’ Waking up from a dream, me...

I am back in the water, not without anxiety I have to say. The experience of leptospirosis was a bit of a drama for me, and I don’t think...

Plastics in the ocean again - 'there is no elsewhere’ when it comes to garbage. The Garbage Patch State is multicentred, with a total...

The Coimbra Museum of Water is very small, with little tangible materiality beyond the ancient jars and bottles, and of course the modern...

Sometimes when there is no common or local knowledge about where to swim in a place I haven't been, I use Google Earth to scope possible...