SWIMMINGPOD - HELEN EDWARDS AND DIP-A-DAY ALL YEAR ROUND SWIMMING
Woman for All Seasons Helen Edwards has insinuated herself on my psyche almost by stealth. I honestly can’t remember when I met her...
top of page
Search
LXVswim
Oct 26, 20203 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - WINTER SWIMMING WITH CRAIG HOLMES AND JO JONES
I first met Craig at a Dodo swim in Oxford – that is December Oxford Dip Outdoors. Or Dip Outdoors December Oxford. Or December Outdoors...
LXVswim
Oct 19, 20203 min read
SWIMMINGPOD - DESPERATELY SEEKING PAULINE BARKER
Nick, at the Serpentine Swimming Club, wanted to introduce me to Pauline Barker last year. I couldn’t make it to London that day, and...
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 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...
LXVswim
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...
LXVswim
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
Jan 2, 20203 min read
LAUNCHING INTO CHRISTMAS
The Christmas period 2019 was a special period for swimming and dipping. When the swims were so perfect in their own way and the...
LXVswim
Dec 17, 20192 min read
ODE TO CELSIUS
When in Uppsala this Summer, I knew of Linnaeus, Carl von Linné, the ‘father of modern taxonomy’ – everything we do in classifying nature...
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....
LXVswim
Dec 16, 20193 min read
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...
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 21, 20193 min read
65@65 SWIM #28, SEEBAD ENGE, ZURICH
Seebad Enge is at the top of Lake Zurich, set in a beautiful location. Walking through the mature arboretum and well-tended ornamental...
bottom of page