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SwimmingpodAuthor: Stanley Ulijaszek
Swimming in the outdoors - lakes and lidos, rivers and oceans, especially the people that swim in them. Music - 'Noe Noe', 'Aeronaut', ' Vienna Beat', and 'Watercool Quiet', from Blue Dot Sessions. Language: en Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Swimming in Zurich, with Stanley Ulijaszek
Friday, 9 October, 2026
Zurich is a happy place for me. I recall swimming in Lake Zurich, day after day, at the age of 19 years, just a fewkilometers south of Zurich itself. Enjoying the mild sting on getting into the water, cool, but not cold, easily accommodated. Enjoyed the majestic background of mountains still snow-laden, its ridges crisply defined by a still low morning summer sun. I thought then I could make a habit of this, swimming in a lake. Which I did, decades later. I never got to swim in Zurich itself then. That was something that started in my 60s, when I was invited to lecture, and to doresearch in St Gallen, just an hour or so away, by train from Zurich. I had been blown away by how much a swimming city Zurich is, right into the city, mostly in the lake but also in the River Limmat. This podcast is about swimming in three places in Lake Zurich, in the city itself, each swim very different,despite only being separated from each other by very few kilometers.
