65@65 SWIM #50 TOOTING BEC LIDO
South London Swimming Club are framed as the opposition by the Serpentine Swimming Club, at least when it comes to the annual races...
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LXVswim
- Mar 18, 2020
- 5 min
65@65 SWIM #49 LA BANCHINA, COPENHAGEN
La Banchina isn’t Italian, it is firmly Copenhagen in a cockle-shell. It is a café in a run-down shed on the canal front in a brown field...
LXVswim
- Mar 18, 2020
- 10 min
65@65 SWIM #48 KULTTUURISAUNA, HELSINKI
Approaching this place of calm and swimming from the very centre of Helsinki seemed straightforward, until Pauline and I encountered...
LXVswim
- Mar 13, 2020
- 4 min
65@65 SWIM #47 ALLAS SEA POOLS, HELSINKI
This Winter has been disappointing, at least in the sense of not being cold enough. I had been looking forward to breaking ice on the...
LXVswim
- Mar 5, 2020
- 3 min
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 28, 2020
- 6 min
65@65 SWIM #45 VINTERBAD BRYGGEN, COPENHAGEN
I have been a member of Vinterbad Bryggen for several years, after looking longingly at this bathing platform on earlier visits, so...
LXVswim
- Feb 24, 2020
- 4 min
CHRISTO AT THE SERPENTINE, SUMMER NOSTALGIA
Summer nostalgia, 2018, when the sun shone and the Mastaba glistened in the morning light. This was the Serpentine Swimming Club...
LXVswim
- Feb 21, 2020
- 4 min
65@65 SWIM #44 SERPENTINE SWIMMING CLUB, HYDE PARK, LONDON
“Ser-pen-ti- ine, my Serpenti-ine, Ser-pen-ti- ine, my Serpenti-ine”… A musical fruit-loop from the Serpentine Swimming Club Christmas...
LXVswim
- Feb 17, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 6 min
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 17, 2020
- 2 min
SWIMMING THROUGH A DIAMOND – CORNWALL AND BRIDGET RILEY
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...
LXVswim
- Jan 15, 2020
- 3 min
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 13, 2020
- 3 min
65@65 SWIM #38 ST IVES, PORTHMEOR BEACH
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...
LXVswim
- Jan 9, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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 20, 2019
- 2 min
DO CATS SWIM?
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...
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