Swimming holidays are the ultimate in slow travel – and since the pandemic, they've become more popular than ever.

A pod of dolphins swimming in the River Thames surprised an RNLI lifeboat crew in a rare sighting on Sunday, 25 February. Gravesend crew members spotted the marine mammals swimming towards them at ...

It was not a vacation that involved lying on a beach and taking the occasional dip in the sea, but one where we travelled by swimming in a group while a boat transported our gear from place to place.