Downstream

evening while swimming
across the Hellespont to visit
his lover, Hero, a journey he
made every night. He ‘swum
for love, as I for glory,’ wrote
Byron in ‘Written After
Swimming from Sestos to
Abydos’.
Later he swam from the
Lido in Venice ‘right to the
end of the Grand Canal,
including its whole length’.
Byron was inducted as an
Honour Swimmer by the