Author: david

Took the train down from Mums to Harwich yesterday evening, to catch the overnight ferry to Hook of Holland. I’d semi-planned to cycle from Wrabness, where Grayson Perry’s “House for Essex” is, but couldn’t get off the train there as the short platform meant the doors in the bike carriage didn’t open. The boat was READ MORE

Went for a test ride with all my stuff yesterday evening. Ended up going 40 miles. Went up to Pucklechurch then east until reaching the Fosseway, which I followed into Batheaston. From there it was through Bath and back home along the railway path

We had a full day in Zadar today (I’m currently waiting at the airport for my flight back to sunny(??) Manchester. I’m still feeling a bit ill – sore throat and cold, so didn’t do that much sight seeing. To be honest, there doesn’t seem to be all that much in Zadar (a day is READ MORE

Today’s swim was a circumnavigation of the island. Before breakfast. We set off early, at 07:30, which was a bit of a slog. The light was beautiful at that time (though my phone was in my room – sorry). Anyway, we headed anti-clockwise round the island. The swim was about 3.5km in total (you have READ MORE

Our last full day of swimming. The weather has improved; the temperature is back up to mid 20s and the lighter wind feels much warmer. We did three swims today. The first was between two islands near the hotel. We did about 1km along the coast of the first, and then swam ~400m to the READ MORE

We had an evening outing to Sibenik yesterday, for a brief look around the town and a meal. It has a very attractive old town (better than Split’s IMHO), and a large fort on top of the hill. This hosts music concerts; the orchestra was rehearsing for a gig of songs from the movies this READ MORE

Still rather windy this morning, so we went to the lake to the east of the hotel, on the mainland (the arrow on the map below is the hotel). Did a 2km swim there; the conditions were good, but the water was much murkier than in the sea proper. We had lunch back at the READ MORE

Headed north today. The weather was better than yesterday afternoon, but it’s still rather windy, which meant some fairly lively boat journeys, with quite a lot of getting splashed. In the morning we swam ~1.5km on the SW side of Privc, and had lunch in the bay. The swim was noticeably colder than yesterday, but READ MORE

Headed south down the coast today. Did two swims; the first of 2km, the second of 3.5km. The weather has taken a turn for the worse; was heavy rain and a little thunder at lunchtime. Much windier this afternoon – a rather interesting boat trip back to the hotel. Had a little wander round most READ MORE

A successful day’s swimming. We headed to Zlarin Island (just to the north of where we’re staying), and did two costal swims, each of ~2km each. Feeling rather sore and achy now. Weather was excellent, though it looks set to turn a bit tomorrow The photos are of the boat journey – wasn’t chance to READ MORE