LXVSWIM

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...

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...

I have been a member of Vinterbad Bryggen for several years, after looking longingly at this bathing platform on earlier visits, so...

Summer nostalgia, 2018, when the sun shone and the Mastaba glistened in the morning light. This was the Serpentine Swimming Club...

“Ser-pen-ti- ine, my Serpenti-ine, Ser-pen-ti- ine, my Serpenti-ine”… A musical fruit-loop from the Serpentine Swimming Club Christmas...

Jeremy and I drove (well, Jeremy drove) from Bled on day two of the Winter Swimming World Championships to Bohinj, just under an hour...

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...

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...

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...

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...