Wild Swimming News

In the UK, news services feature safety warnings warning swimmers to stay out of open waters.  Contrast attitudes at home with this...

Swim City Exhibition Basel Switzerland 25.05. – 29.09.2019 Swim City Opening: 24/05/2019, 7 PM The exhibition “Swim City“will be the...

Culture clash! Click the image below and see for yourself the contrast between British and Swiss culture when it comes to outdoor...

Having spent a fortnight touring France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland I am left with many questions about the disparity between...

An item in the news from Switzerland warning swimmers that on Monday a boy of eight was bitten by a beaver whilst swimming in the Rhine...

Pollution has changed the face of river swimming across the world. Not that pollution in itself has put people off outdoor swimming. In...

Improbable you may think – but actually it’s true! On our recent visit to Switzerland, my wife and I just managed to squeeze in a visit...

Geneva City of Peace The first thing that strikes you as a swimmer in Geneva is the colour and clarity of the water. Then their is Jet...

These pictures of Bains Des Paquis (Geneva, Switzerland) remind me of so many photographs of our great British swimming past. The...

Basel City of Culture Basel is a remarkable city from a swimmers perspective. The local police have produced the following advice leaflet...

Nestled beneath the Capitol Building you will find a swimmers paradise. A Lido free for all to use with diving boards, children’s pools,...

Whilst in Switzerland filming my new documentary about different attitudes towards river swimming in Europe, I came across these wild...

This is the question I asked and I believe I have found the answer in Switzerland… #health #WaterSports #Sports #swimming #river...

Upper Letten River Pool Having spent a week in Switzerland, I’m staggered at the difference in attitude towards swimming in Europe...

Cool – Free of Charge in the Bath Sadly the weather here in Switzerland is unseasonably bad but what I have seen and experienced is...

Happy days! Bathing at Chertsey. #WaterSports #history #swimming #river #SwimmingandDiving #wildswimming #CultureoftheUnitedKingdom...

Crave Online reports: “We’re very laid-back people,” said Regula, a 30-something resident of Bern, appointed one of my unofficial...

Much has recently been said about safe river swimming. Its easy to think that when it comes to safety standards the British kite-mark is...

The Guardian Witness reports: “Every summer the Rhine in Basel becomes a wonderful water playground, with beaches, bars and buzz. The...

The Oberer Letten has a 400-metre swimming channel in the Limmat and a two-metre high diving platform. Two beach volleyball courts on the...