THE SWIMQUEST BLOG
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 […]
GUEST EXPERIENCE: CROATIA - Alix Bradield (attended 16-22 September 2023 Croatia week) ALIX TRAVELS FROM AUSTRALIA TO JOIN THE SWIMQUEST CROATIA WEEK, AND TELLS US ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE: In 2018, I had my first SwimQuest experience, on the Greek island of Mathraki. After that, I kept dreaming about another one of their holidays. The company has a number of […]
10 QUESTIONS FOR: SWIMQUEST GUIDE DEE NEWELL - What made you want to be a SWIMQUEST guide? I have always loved swimming and started teaching swimming once I was old enough to do my first teaching certificate, which was 16 at the time. Since then I have been lucky enough to experience some great swims at home and abroad. Being a swim guide […]
GUEST EXPERIENCE: CROATIA - By Niamh Hegarty (attended the 23-29 September 2023 week) I swim with a large group of women in Galway in the west of Ireland. Most of them have been on several swimming holidays over the years but this was my first. And now I’m wondering why I waited so long! A friend found the SwimQuest Croatia […]
LOCATION SWIMSPIRATION: FORMENTERA - By Jessica Hepburn SwimQuest tours on Formentera will always have a special place in my heart. In fact, they feature in my second book – 21 Miles. In my early forties – after a series of hard life experiences – I decided to try and swim my way out of sadness. I Googled ‘How to […]
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