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GUEST BLOG: GALAPAGOS - BECKY HORSBRUGH JOINED US FOR HER HONEYMOON IN THE GALAPAGOS. WHAT A WAY TO CELEBRATE! here she shares her trip experience … Did you know a group of flamingos is called a flamboyance? The question – and answer – came up on a crossword we were doing on our way to the Galapagos islands. It […]
GUEST BLOG: CHANNEL & DISTANCE WEEK - Rosanna JOINED THE CHANNEL & DISTANCE WEEK IN 2025 AND SHARES HER EXPERIENCE … The joy of swimming has come to me relatively later in life. I learnt to swim as a child, but I was put off doing sport having never being picked for the teams in school. That stayed with me for a […]
MEET SWIMQUEST GUIDE CLARE JEVONS - WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO BE A SWIMQUEST GUIDE? I used to swim competitively when I was young, and taught from my late teens onwards, so I’ve always loved the water. In 2015 my best friend that I swam with when I was young, was tragically killed in a car accident and a memorial open […]
MEET SWIMQUEST GUIDE JO GOOD - MEET JO GOOD, SWIMQUEST GUIDE AND OWNER OF GONE FOR A SWIM. WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO BE A SWIMQUEST GUIDE? I’d seen the SwimQuest socials and had looked at the various holidays before realising that being a swim guide was actually a job I could potentially do. It literally ticks all my boxes for […]
CAROLINE’S GUEST EXPERIENCE – MATHRAKI - “I explore; not just the islands, but my potential, my limits, my ability to go further than I had imagined” Caroline Taylor joins the SwimQuest Mathraki Relax & Explore week and tells us about her trip: I am a swimmer, or perhaps I should say I am someone who swims. I hit the pool […]
ALISON’S GUEST EXPERIENCE: MATHRAKI RELAX & EXPLORE - ALISON BOOKED ONTO HER FIRST SWIMMING HOLIDAY – THE MAY 2024 MATHRAKI ‘RELAX & EXPLORE’ WEEK. READ ON TO FIND OUT MORE … “Show my mother a body of water, and she’ll be in it!” said my son recently, when posting a picture of the two of us in a glacial stream in Canada. I’ve […]
MEET SWIM GUIDE & BOOKINGS AND OPS MANAGER SARAH - MEET SARAH – OUR BOOKINGS AND OPERATIONS MANAGER & SWIMQUEST GUIDE WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE PART OF YOUR ROLE? Swimming and travel are my two of my favourite things. Every day I get to chat to people about the joy of a swim holiday – doing something you love, whilst travelling the world and meeting […]
MASSAGE FOR SWIMMERS - How an at-home massage can benefit swimmers Urban are proud sponsors of Swim the Night, and here have shared a discount code, and some top massage tips with us. Training for events like Swim the Night can really take it out of you, but adding a regular at-home massage to your training routine is a great […]
GUEST EXPERIENCE – Club La Santa Technique Week with Dan Wallace - La Santa Technique Week, February 2024. By Emma (Attended February 2024) I love being in the water, but I’m not a swimmer. As a child, I spent loads of time in the local pool, got my swimming badges, did a bit of water safety and learned how to snorkel. Holidays aren’t really holidays unless […]
GUEST EXPERIENCE : THE MALDIVES - exhilarating, once-in-a-lifetime, relaxing.. by Jane Ryan (attended 27/1- 3/2/24) The Maldives…a distant dream I thought…I’ll never be able to afford the kind of holiday I’d like to take there: swimming with whale sharks, snorkelling amongst turtles and manta rays, walking the white sands and gliding through the crystal-clear waters. A pipedream I thought…especially in […]
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