Set against a leafy backdrop and with its iconic, brightly coloured, changing room doors, Tooting Bec Lido gives city dwellers a chance to escape and cool off. Did you know it’s the largest freshwater Lido in the UK at almost twice the size of an Olympic swimming pool?
Julie didn’t.
(You can spot her on the very edge of the left-hand side of the picture, powering through the water.) After setting herself the challenge of swimming a mile in August she woke up on the last day of the month in a panic. After a quick calculation Julie set off and swam the 32 lengths she needed to achieve her goal. Months later she realised it was a 90 metre pool and she had swum a mile all along and nearly twice that on that day in August. Oh Julie!
This vibrant print celebrates the British summer to its fullest. Alongside Julie, you will find so many stories including: cold water swimming championships, swimming costume fails, begoggled triathletes, the ever growing dryrobe brigade and the most FABULOUS hat.