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insurance for this Thames trip and have to produce evidence of it at the start or I won’t be able to swi ...
Office doesn’t seem sure about wild swimming and they ring their underwriters before calling back. The fi ...
group. Ian Rees, the only man, is going to do a triathlon and he wants to try the whole way using front cra ...
pool is a mile, I want to hug her. We’re then all given a laminated card explaining Weil’s disease ...
stages it may resemble influenza. We’re also encouraged to use antibacterial wash after removing our wetsuits ...
told the various communication signals: stop, go left, come to the boat and ‘are you OK?’, which means ...
A group photo at Buscot Lock, Oxfordshire, where a sign reads, ‘No Swimming’. I’m second from left and nervous about whether I c ...
‘It’s fun,’ says Eleanor, ‘pace yourself and you can always get out.’ Four of us then go to the toilet ...
front crawl – and I choose the former. How anyone is going to swim the whole way breaststroke in a wetsui ...
The river is lush and lined with trees and foxgloves; a bright blue dragonfly hovers over my head. I f ...
nightmare: two big swans with a group of cygnets. We’re told to keep to the left now and my heart is pound ...
themselves around me in big fluttery wads. Then Ian calls out in surprise: he’s standing up in the middle o ...
and I don’t recognise her because everyone is wearing hats and goggles. There is something odd about her f ...
of me a woman is doing backstroke straight into a bunch of reeds. Then along comes another swan, the sm ...
until eventually it glides off to the right. Now we’re at a bridge and a mooring point. I approach the smaller ...
as we walk to the inn for lunch I ask the others what they most feared. ‘I was worried about death,’ says Ka ...
water, so she did side stroke for a while until she managed to overcome her fear. We talk about our families ...
Our Australian guide says the English like organised adventure holidays – stressing the word ‘organised’ – and ...
William Morris’ manor?’ asks the driver. ‘No!’ I say, ‘we’re going to swim.’ ‘Well, the manor is closed,’ says ...
first swim I was somewhere in the middle, now I’m second from last. ‘Try some side stroke,’ says Kate ...
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