Downstream

couldn’t swim through
London,’ he explains. ‘I got
out the book of Thames by-
laws and said, “can you tell
me where it says I can’t swim
through London?” They said,
“we can’t but we can make it
very difficult for you”, and
they did.’ Andy says the
charity he was raising money
for asked him just to do the
non-tidal Thames, after being
approached by the PLA.
The following year, when