Downstream

to swim. Finally, Lewis
entered the water near Buscot
Lock, a couple of miles
downstream from the Round
House, and what struck him
was the stillness of the river:
after weeks without rain it
was ‘like a millpond’. There
was no chance of being
carried along; instead, a
week’s swim turned into a
twenty-one-day odyssey.
Andy and Lewis are not the
only long-distance swimmers