Downstream

‘We were looking for
something bigger and better,’
says Richard, ‘we both grew
up in and around Windsor so
we had swum in the Thames,
it had always been there as a
backdrop and I knew of
Lewis Pugh’s swim and
thought we could give it a go.
It was just me and my brother
swimming next to each other
in the Thames, and Dad in a
canoe.’
The idea was to begin at