Thames,’ says Wouter Van
Staden. ‘I always had the idea
that if you can see something
then you can swim to it. I live
in Basildon and, being in
Essex, when you get to the
coast you can see Kent, so I
wanted to swim there.’
Wouter comes from Pretoria,
South Africa, and knew ‘a bit
about the Thames’ growing
up, but it ‘wasn’t big on my
radar’ until he came to
England. In 2007 he settled in
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