Downstream
working. We asked the locals and they gave us different directions and we got there late afternoon, it was h ...
swim. ‘We assumed it would quickly get deep enough to swim and so did the locals, but, boy, were we wrong.’ ...
deprivation. ‘There was the issue of boredom. I can deal with time alone, I loved cycling across America a ...
hear anything, I couldn’t talk to anyone . . . I don’t mind going solo but this was tough. Sometim ...
‘I set myself short-term goals, and at least the Thames is not the ocean so every few miles there is a lock ...
to a very dark place.’ What also struck her was the fact that ‘all the way people thought I was a ...
you’re doing a Walliams?” We used to bet how many people would say that every day. So the shock factor of ...
press and it can take over. I was doing this for me, a personal experience, I didn’t want the distraction o ...
on the peak of the tide, I whizzed through London. There had been no flow up to then, when I’d stopped swi ...
eels and shopping trolleys, while one day she found her foot inside someone’s shoe. Sadly, Ness had to post ...
place she had read about in books as a child, and as she began to discover the history of other Thames s ...
to enjoy the waterway and the sense of community that comes from swimming. The Outdoor Swimming Society’s T ...
month, winter and summer, rain, hail, snow and, if lucky, sun, and twice a month in the summer.’ They ...
fast. We meet up, swim a bit, stop for tea and cake – some of our partners walk along the bank wi ...
vowed to swim at least each month of the year. ‘The idea of swimming the length of the Thames put some ...
the pub is expecting us for lunch. We don’t really have a finish date for everyone. Some people join us ...
lot of our “better” swimmers are female, which makes a nice change from the normal male-dominated sporting activ ...
us have done all fifty-six sections. But there are plenty of others that have a few sections missing tha ...
group will continue their Thames journey and no doubt others will join them as they swim every month ...
Swimming the Thames: Then and Now ‘The Thames has never really been ...
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