One of those swims is the crossing of Lake Zurich tomorrow. 9. . This is Monika. although there is a wacky. There is nothing better! Also Turkey, and have crossed the Hudson River in 3 different swims. Tour Manager SwimTrek Swimming Holidays 2008 – 2012 4 years. Participants swim on average four kilometers a day, and the price starts at about £750, or $1,200. Look up Swimtrek's swims if you don't already know of them--terrific trips! I chose Croatia for various reasons. Head to the Hills do trips in Lake District and Swimtrek do trips in Scotland and Lakes or Gone Swimming for North Wales x. Fiona E. replied: ... We have organised swims, coaching, guiding but also just meet ups now and again. Does anyone have any opinions of Swimtrek or of the area? However, very few fellow French swimmers. Some of them were double x double strength (you read that right). ... 2018 @outdoor_swimmer. UK 2015 14:08 Dover Souls; 653. water swims based in a particular part of the world. SwimTrek: Dalmatian Coast, Croatia - Dawn Walker After hearing lots of positive and exciting feedback about SwimTrek holidays (from Rebecca, Mike and other friends…) we decided that it would too good an opportunity to miss: combining a trip to the UK with a few cheeky ocean swims in Europe beforehand. It's a long way to come if things don't work out.... David. SwimTrek must be doing something right. Croatia. It is considered to be the most difficult of all the GR routes and one of the most beautiful mountain trail in Europe. UK 1 July 2010 14:08 Wings Big Swim; 653. which organises guided swims around islands There's not much to do other than swim. Croatia. There's about a 100 mile lap to Bari, in the italian coast (i suggest a motorized escort and wetsuit). Yeah, check the adriatic pool, open 24/7 all year round, you can enter the pool pretty much at every little village on the coast. LONG SWIMS WEEK GREECE Mathraki is a very remote island in Greece and an incredible location for swimming. See SwimTrek UK / USA 1 August 2005 14:09 The Jitterbugs; 656. Winning strokes. 26 kilometers. Swimtrek - Various locations ... from the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, to Mexico's Baja Peninsula. Week-long trips to Malta, Croatia and Greece start around $1,400. ... especially the Croatia trip, I've always wanted to go to Croatia anyway! Upcoming trip dates include Malta Aug. 30, Croatia Aug. 16 and Greece Sept. 23. Established in 2010 by Guinness record holder and world-renowned marathon swimmer Martin Strel … Ade swears by just having warm water during his long swims > I'll leave that feeding plan with him! Trips run January to November, from a one-day swim at Alcatraz to eight days in the Greek Sporades. It’s 180k long with a total variation in height of about 10,000 metres. We also spotted Russians, Italians, a few Americans, a team from Turkmenistan, a woman from Lebanon and obviously, lots of Turks. SwimTrek's short swim trip in Croatia ... Blending coastal swims with island-hopping, the trip includes a hike up Mount Klepac on Zlarin island. Late season European swims and November issue preview. Here are some of the best wild-swimming spots around the world from the Carribean to the Middle East and Europe 14 September 2018 14:08 Trinity School Relay Team; 656. SUMMARY EVENTS 2012 International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame induction ceremony 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference 2011 World Open Water Swimming Awards Swim Across America Long Beach: 100m, 800m, 1.5km, 5km and 10km charity swims DATES Friday, September 21 – Sunday, September 23 at Long Beach Memorial in Long Beach. 650. Forget ferries and luxury yachts, the best way to island-hop in Croatia is to smear yourself with Vaseline, strap on your goggles and swim, says Lucy Grove. There are tens of thousands of island swims around the world. "SwimTrek also run week-long swimming breaks around the world, with the ones to the Greek Cyclades and Croatia looking particularly beguiling." Credit: SwimTrek And the unpredictability of the sea merely adds to that appeal. The Diapontia Islands (off the north west coast of Corfu) provide fantastic opportunities for inter island swims, island hops, circumnavigation and coastal exploration. We typically did a 2-3k swim in the morning crossing between islands and then a 1 – 2k costal swim in the afternoons. Long-distance swimming is the ultimate endurance test in nature, a lo-fi, boundary-breaking challenge in the wild. Croatia Tourism Croatia Hotels Croatia Bed and Breakfast Croatia Holiday Rentals Croatia Packages Flights to Croatia Croatia Restaurants Croatia Attractions Swim Art 415-299-9098; www.swim-art.com . Darrel Rivers, the main character is a jolly-hockey-sticks all round good egg, who manages to get into a few scrapes on her inevitable journey to Head Girl. Swimquest, a United Kingdom company, has trips with medal-winning swimmers who can analyze a swim stroke and offer ways to improve efficiency with pool and open-water swims. Four of my fellow BVI swim-trekkers were repeat customers and couldn’t say enough positive things about the trips they had been on, swimming in Greece, Croatia, Malta. Founder and director Simon Murie says that a tour company can take care of potentially headache-inducing logistics, such … For example, it hosts a seven-day course on the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Croatia. 2 September 2017 14:09 Aspire (Coelacanth) 656. Time - 1:05.03 (split-fins) 4.4E - 0512 Slack - 0849 3.7F - 1144 The swims in the sea around Croatia were lovely. That was a winner and I should have done that the 1st swim. SwimTrek (swimtrek.com) is the largest operator with more than 30 destinations. 22 August 2018 14:07 SwimTrek Spartans; 653. Based in the historic town of Sali, on the island of Dugi Otok, these swims explore the Kornati National Park, an archipelago of over 130 remote & often uninhabited islands off the northern Dalmatian Coast of Croatia. Island swims are solo, stage, competitive, relay or charity open water swims or swim vacations to, from, on, in, near or around islands in any open body of water. family-run 'museum' dedicated to the 16th-century inventor of the parachute, who lived in Prvié. Does anyone have any opinions of Swimtrek or of the area? I still like my maxim mixture with summer fruits and fruit sugar. BEST FOR Swimmers and easy- going amblers who are happy to wander from village to village. I was lucky last weekend to be invited to take part in a test run for a new swimming event in Croatia. com, 00-385-22-448300), a small waterfront hotel with clean, contemporary style, excellent food and friendly service. I have also done long distance open water swims, with Swimtrek; in Greece, Croatia, the British Virgin Islands. For the Croatia trip, bring some good walking shoes (there's a 1-hour hike to the Krka waterfalls and there can be some shorter island hikes that are on rocky trails). As a part-time swim guide the past 2 years for Swim-Trek's Croatia trip & and as a customer 3 years ago on the Greece trip, I've enjoyed reading the postings. How exotic for my husband and I, Londoners. The Croatia Long Swims trip offers daily swim distances longer than most of our trips. I hadn’t been there before, had heard great things, the swims were not as tough as some of their trips (average 3k) and jellyfish are few and far between in the Adriatic. She joined SwimSwell in Croatia back in June to have a little fine tuning of her technique and a few training sessions to prepare her for some bigger swims. So here, at last, is the real thing. 8. If you’re fit, you can walk it in +/- 12 days. On day 3 after a long smooth 4.5km coastal swim, we were relaxing in a gorgeous harbor thinking that all is right with the world. UK 1967 14:09 St Richard of Chichister Boys' School; 656. The seven-day Short Swims Croatia trip (departs 15 Sept; £810pp, excluding flights) combines island-hopping and coastal swims, as well as stroke analyses to help you improve. Every 5th feed was black tea with fruit sugar. SwimTrek arranges for its guests to stay at Hotel Maestral (www.hotelmaestral. The Malory Towers series by Enid Blyton was a favourite of mine during my childhood. The World’s Top 100 Island Swims for 2019 include the following, listed alphabetically: World’s Top 100 Island Swims: 1. At this point, the best I could do was point towards the opening, fight the dying ebb and hope for slack waters which was pretty much what happened. ). Jan 9, 2018 - Book your Kornati swimming holiday today to experience the calm and sheltered waters of the lagoon of Telascica Bay Nature Park. "e !rst company to do this was SwimTrek, who kicked o% with a week-long trip to the Greek Cyclades islands in 2003. Who do you swim with in the Bay? Croatia Tourism Croatia Hotels Bed and Breakfast Croatia Croatia Holiday Rentals Croatia Holiday Packages Flights to Croatia Croatia Restaurants . GR 20 is a long distance trail that crosses Corsica diagonally from north to south. Strel Swimming Adventures offers unique swimming holiday and vacation trips and gulet liveaboard cruises in Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, Turkey, Slovenia and Arizona (Lake Powell) in the USA. The British contingent was out in force thanks to SwimTrek and in the line, we met swimmers from Manchester, London and Bath. 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