So, you’ve been on a SwimTrek trip, maybe even a few of them. You love the swims. You love the guides. And you love the sense of adventure and achievement that comes from taking part in an open water swimming holiday. Now you’re ready to add a little something extra to your SwimTrek experience. ...

Join SwimTrek for an evening of talks and insight in to the SwimTrek 2016 tours calendar. Kicking off the evening will be a talk from ‘King of the Channel’ Kevin Murphy on his long distance odysseys, followed by an introduction to SwimTrek and insight to the 2016 tours calendar with SwimTrek...

Join us on Google Hangouts for a Q&A with SwimTrek Founder, Simon Murie. As well as answering questions about SwimTrek trips we're sure he'll be sharing tales of open water swimming in some of the world's best destinations. So if you are wondering where to go next or have that...

Throughout my seasons of guiding, many guests have looked enviously at my job. They are on holiday from their own jobs and imagine that being a guide must be like being on holiday, too. Not quite, though admittedly there are some fantastic perks to being a guide. Having just finished a season of...

So you’re thinking of doing a SwimTrek trip to Croatia; you’ve been lured by the turquoise waters of the Adriatic Sea, the countless islands and the stunning views but how do you decide which of our trips to do? SwimTrek now run four trips to Croatia, each one giving you the opportunity to...

SwimTrek and the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) are set to team up again in 2016 to bring you the Big Sea Swim from the beautiful setting of Eastbourne beach. The event has gone from strength to strength since its launch in 2012 and last year over 100 swimmers took to the sea to raise funds...

I’m a nervous flyer but I quashed my fear with prosecco and my nerves dissolved as we landed in stunning Chania. We had dinner at a restaurant in the old town, and the waiter brought us free chocolate cake and a small carafe of raki as if we were old friends. This gesture set the tone for the...

For the last couple of weeks SwimTrek have been running Adventure Swimming Holidays at the Sivota Bay Retreat. They were aware that Neilson support Sail4Cancer and hoped to help contribute. The plan was to swim a crossing from Corfu back to the resort on the mainland. On Wednesday 28th November a...

Whenever you go away with a group of people that you've never met before you take a bit of a risk. That risk is even greater if it's a swimming holiday at the very end of the season. But that's what I did last week as I set off on the Crete Escape trip. The gamble on the group paid...

As a new guide, I had the usual new job nerves heightened by temporarily relocating to Greece, a country I'd never been to before. With excitement far-outweighing nerves I traveled first to Brighton to meet the SwimTrek team before heading to Alonissos, the little Island of the Sporades which...