LXVSWIM

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...

There is absolutely nothing like visiting a place, to get a sense of it. That is both the beauty and the tragedy of Venice – it is...

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...

The Venice Biennale is overwhelming, especially day two, at the Arsenale. Day one was at the Giardini, getting off the water bus...

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...

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...

This felt very much like the last longer one before winter sets in. Thanks to Juliet and Hywel - lovely company, lovely day - the sun...

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...

Port Meadow, Oxford in the morning, Hammersmith in the evening. Changing by the dodo tree in Oxford and watching the sun rise at water...

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...

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...

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...

At the Serpentine, at the Thames in Oxford, there is an annual clean-up, usually bringing out of the water all manner of items plastic,...

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...

Looking at the rocks and beautiful ruins, it is difficult but to imagine it as a piece, all together as a place of harmony and hard...

Small but dignified, the river flows through this this beautiful Swedish city. There are lakes not so far away, but this was a swim...

At high tide, at Claire Samwell's family beach hut, with Hampshire Open Water Swimming people, and cake. Very gracious invite from Claire...

An evening swim, an invite from Hywel and Juliet to go with the Surrey open waters swimmers, followed by the movies 'Against the Tides',...

Very intelligent exhibition at the Museum of Archaeology in Bologna on African Art and its relationships with the West. Personally I...

Just for a change, a week in Bologna, a warm week and a 39 degree day - only water can help. Piscina Sterlino is where we have come now...