From my tropical perch, I used to shake my head in disbelief when scanning through the pictures and posts UK swimmers contributed to the popular (among swimmers) Facebook group "Did You Swim Today?" How could people be smiling while swimming in "skins" in water that regularly...

I had been looking for a Swim Trek Holiday for a while, when I saw the photos of the Tremiti Islands. My mind was made up that I would book this trip after seeing the pictures of the stunning views. Travelling down from Bonnie Scotland made for an interesting journey. After using almost every...

I had decided to go for it after crewing in mid-September on a Channel swim for a swimming buddy who I'd met on the SwimTrek long-distance training camp in April. The water temperature at the time was 18C and it was still 17.something at the end of September which is positively balmy for the...

The Hellespont swim was something I really wanted to try for a while. The classical story of Hero and Leander, Lord Byron and the warm water made it the ideal choice. I had done a few 5km pool swims a few years back and one leg of a triathlon (which I turned up for in board shorts) but that was...

Approximately 4yrs ago our coach of Langlands Masters started talking about The SwimTrek Darndanelles, a few doubts and question, could we can we, could we make the swim distance could we organise to get to Turkey?? So we did, waited till midnight in Feb 2015 and we all signed up to swim! 13 in...

The Story so far… We didn’t imagine on the 7th September 2009 when 7 brave people stepped on to the first Aspire Channel swim boat that just 6 years later over 150 people would have successfully completed a Relay Channel crossing with Aspire and between them they would have raised over half a...

Congratulations to all the swimmers who took part in the Hellespont Cross Continental Swim. For overall results, gender and age category classification please click on the following links; Overall Classification Female Swimmer Overall Results Male Swimmer Overall Results Female Age Category...

Returning from her trip - SwimTrek Guest, Emma shares her highlights and insider view of swimming along the turquoise coast of the Lycian Way, Turkey; Our group was a hodge podge mix of couples, families and singles and by the end, with the magic of time and the natural love of swimming - we...

You know when you're told that something might be useful, that you should take it 'just in case', yet you ignore the advice and assume it 'won't happen to me'? That's exactly what happened to me on my second SwimTrek tour to the Croatian Dalmatian Coast last week....

The Croatian Dalmatian Coast trip based on the island of Prvic seemed an obvious choice when searching for my second Swimtrek holiday earlier this year. My first tour was in the British Virgin Islands in March this year, which I knew would be hard to beat in terms of weather, dazzling seas and...