Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some swimmers have also found wild swimming to be an antidote to pandemic-era loneliness and mental health struggles. Jessica J.

And he goes wild swimming every morning, jumping into a cold lake or river or into the sea. During the pandemic, wild swimming became popular in Ireland. It remains so. There are crowdsourcing apps ...

Back in Europe, Schloss Elmau, an idyllic nature escape in the German Alps, offers expert-led and unguided wild swimming excursions in several peak-flanked lakes. Guests can take e-bikes to Ferchensee ...

The “wild swimming” trend — aka open-water swimming, or taking dips in lakes, rivers, streams or even the sea — isn't exactly new. Still, it has been increasing in popularity over the past decade, ...

According to the “Listen Now Again” exhibition, Seamus Heaney said, “I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.” ...