One of the toughest physical challenges in the world is the English Channel swim. For many swimmers to commit to a solo swim is beyond their grasp, but an alternative exists. You could also be joining a select few by taking part in a channel relay swim With the 2013 Channel swim season well...

I've enjoyed swimming for the past forty years starting off in the learner pool at the local Swimming Pool to a successful competitive swimming career. At the age 15, I was selected to represent the England Youth Team, then later the England Senior Team and then Great Britain full...

SwimTrek are already busy researching new and exciting trips for next year. So, last month Simon Murie was joined by some seasoned SwimTrekkers to test a new location and here is the report from Naomi Branston as to how it went. If you think of the coast on the Southern half of the Iberian...

In celebration of SwimTrek’s 10th birthday in 2013, founder Simon Murie has launched a swimming holiday that combines his love of the open water and the poetry and majesty of the countryside on the borders between the Scottish Lowlands and Highlands – Loch Lomond and the Trossachs. This area of...

If you are heading for the South West this summer, and would like to explore the region’s idyllic swimming holes and secret covers, then you might be interested in the new Wild Guide from the authors of Wild Swimming. Covering Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset. It features over 200 wild...

Gary Emich is an accomplished and well-travelled open water swimmer and is a regular guide for SwimTrek. What makes Gary truly unique, is his obsession with Alcatraz. Not only does Gary already hold the record for the greatest number of Alcatraz Island swims. He is also about to embark on his...

In his regular column with H2Open magazine, SwimTrek’s Simon Murie highlights swims to add to your wish list. This month, Albania to Corfu. For years, Albania was one of the world's most closed-off and strictly controlled countries. It was left with no friends at all after shunning both the...

When Louise Twining Ward, who lives in Brooklyn, New York wanted to indulge her love of the big blue by going on a SwimTrek swimming holiday to the British Virgin Islands she faced a dilemma. Her children (12 and 14) are too young to join and her husband is a more of a dry-land sort of chap. ...

Swimmers have a variety of reasons for taking the plunge into open water. For some it is the thrill of taking part in a highly competitive sport, keeping fit or simply for the joy of being in the water outdoors. For me it was my father who shared his fun and passion for water with me from before...

On Friday 22nd March, the SwimTrek Coach from Tooting Bec Lido became the fourth fastest person to swim across the 26km of the Cook Strait in an amazing time of 6 hours 15 minutes.  This swim is rated as one of the world's toughest marathon swims and by completing this challenge Dan has...