Oh, this is a difficult one because quite honestly, there are so many pools, spas and springs to bathe in that the only true itinerary I could give you is to take a month and just drive all the way around Iceland, stopping everywhere. Every settlement with more than about ten people living there has a… More An Iceland itinerary for waterbabies
Back in May, I wrote a post about my first swim of the season, my goals for the season and just generally my thoughts on swimming. The season has now come to an end; the pool has closed for the winter and I guess I’m now not swimming again either until it reopens next May… More 2021 swimming review
The other weekend I went for my first ever Moonlight Swim at Shepton Mallet lido. It’s an event they put on during the summer at the full moon and it features a two-hour outdoor swim by moonlight, firelight and fairy lights and a free hot chocolate to warm up afterwards. It’s a heated pool, heated… More Moonlight Swim at Shepton Mallet lido
Since I’ve gone back to swimming recently, and since I made some comments about Iceland the Obligatory Naked Shower (although it’s possible they were in the first version that I deleted and rewrote), I thought I’d write a whole post about Iceland and swimming. Most western countries are pretty big drinkers and Iceland is no… More Iceland and swimming
I love swimming. I love swimming for fun and I love swimming for exercise because the boundary between “it’s good for you!” and “it’s fun!” is so fine. At the moment, I’m not willing to go to one of my local indoor pools because plague but my favourite outdoor pool has just opened and I’ve… More Swimming for exercise and my 2021 swimming goals
One thing that a lot of people like to do on holiday is go to the pool and that’s a bit difficult at the moment. However, if you’re staycationing in Dorset or Wiltshire (the border between the two pretty much runs through the north of the town), salvation is at hand in the form of… More Dorset Staycation: Shaftesbury Oasis review
In 2019, I did a virtual swimming challenge every month. 2.5km or 100 lengths of a standard pool every month and double that in June and October. December was going ok. I’d done 40 lengths before I went to York and I wanted to do another chunk while I was there because I like to… More When a 50m pool isn’t a 50m pool
This isn’t going to become a blog about fitness and exercise. But there is a bit of a crossover between travel and adventure and exercise – see the existence of Outdoor Fitness magazine.Swimming isn’t technically outdoors, not how I do it, but in light of watersports, I think it’s in the spirit. Couch to 5K… More Swimming, adventure and fitness
Last year I did my first ever virtual race. You sign up and even get a downloadable bib (has anyone ever printed and worn this?) but you do the race by yourself at your own pace at your own place. You don’t even have to run. I walked it but cycling is also an option.… More Virtual running and swimming
Sundhöllin is Reykjavik’s oldest public pool. Designed by Guðjón Samúelsson, who also designed Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik’s Catholic cathedral and the big church in Akureyri, it’s a Art Deco style building and was opened in 1937. Unusually for an Icelandic pool, it’s freezing. I visited a couple of years ago. It’s right in the centre of downtown… More I visited the new Sundhöllin extension