LXVSWIM

Bridget Riley is a star of modern art, and although I saw her exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London in November, it was the visit...

Past ‘Nauty but Ice’ – an ice-cream parlour on the harbour-front, past ‘Rick Stein’ – an expensive sea-food restaurant on the other side...

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...

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...

New Year’s Day and all are dipping after promising, resolving to do dry January. The United States and Canada have their polar bear...

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,...

The Christmas period 2019 was a special period for swimming and dipping. When the swims were so perfect in their own way and the...

Cats can swim, and some big cats have to from time to time, when hunting. Smaller domesticated cats can, but prefer not to. If they get...

When in Uppsala this Summer, I knew of Linnaeus, Carl von Linné, the ‘father of modern taxonomy’ – everything we do in classifying nature...

There are many good places to swim in Essex, especially on the coast, being mindful of the high tide to avoid muddy shallow estuaries....

Dodo – December Outdoor Dip Oxford; Dip Outdoor December Oxford; December Oxford Dip Outdoors. I am never sure how it goes, but however...

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...

Birds fly south in Autumn / Winter, people find their break - from short days / beige-brown landscapes / mud / rain-sleet / perceived...

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...

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...

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...

Seebad Enge is at the top of Lake Zurich, set in a beautiful location. Walking through the mature arboretum and well-tended ornamental...

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...

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...