Downstream

swimming around Lechlade
that I’ve signed up for a one-
day swim with SwimTrek,
covering five miles from
Buscot Lock to Radcot
Bridge in Oxfordshire.
SwimTrek has been running
Thames swims since its
inception in 2003 and founder
Simon Murie says he enjoys
‘things that are iconic. I need
something classical like the
Greek islands, the Hellespont
in Turkey, and the Thames;