Columnist Matthew Parris has been called “ignorant” and his actions “dangerous” after swimming across London’s River Thames. But up and down the country, people are dipping a toe in the trend for outdoor swimming.
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I am swimming in the middle of the strait dividing Europe from Asia Minor and I sense most of us are not going to make it.
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A mile and a half across the bay, lies the prize of San Francisco – a thicket of skyscrapers shimmering in the early morning haze.
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The indoor swimming pool was a child of the industrial revolution
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Climate change has done little, so far, to make the waters of the Lake District or the English Channel any less numbingly cold.
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Is “free swimming” a government gimmick or a genuine boost to the nation’s health?
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Twenty feet down through the hazy blue of the Caribbean, several lean, grey Zeppelins cruise silently by.
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The intoxicating smell of Ambre Solaire is a distant memory and overhead the skies are darkening.
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At Samphire Beach, a Japanese woman stands in front of Dover’s white cliffs.
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Beneath me is the deep blue abyss of the Aegean.
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