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Author: Digger

New Swims added

A few more new swim locations (2022) added (Isle of Mull and Peak District), to go with the new ones for the Isle of Arran and any others I’ve been to this year.

http://www.diggersworld.net/wild-swimming/new-wild-swims/

Author DiggerPosted on August 6, 2022April 3, 2025Categories Wild swimming

Photos finally uploaded from Swim the Door 22

Now I’m back from my travels I’ve updated the Swim the Door 22 page.

http://www.diggersworld.net/swim-the-door/swim-the-door-2022/

Author DiggerPosted on July 11, 2022April 3, 2025Categories Swim The Door

Only a few days till Swim the Door 22

With only a few days to go, speculation is feverish as to who the “returning veteran could be”…

http://www.diggersworld.net/swim-the-door/swim-the-door-2022/

 

Author DiggerPosted on June 7, 2022April 3, 2025Categories Swim The Door

New Weekends Away added

Weekends away in Dorset and Peaks added

http://www.diggersworld.net/weekend-breaks/2022-2/

Author DiggerPosted on June 4, 2022April 3, 2025Categories Website News

Photos from first (annual) Easter Scottish Holiday in 3 years ADDED

Photos and “details” from the Easter Scottish Holiday on Isle of Arran.

 

http://www.diggersworld.net/holidays/annual-scottish-easter-holidays/scotland-2022-easter-isle-of-arran/

Author DiggerPosted on May 8, 2022April 3, 2025Categories Website News

New swim spots 2022

New swim spots added (Perthshire and Isle of Arran) http://www.diggersworld.net/wild-swimming/new-wild-swims/

Author DiggerPosted on May 2, 2022April 3, 2025Categories Website News

A few more “new swim spots added”

A couple of “new swims spots” added:

http://www.diggersworld.net/2021/07/new-swim-spots-2021-finally/

Author DiggerPosted on October 17, 2021April 3, 2025Categories Website News

Weekend breaks updated

A few photos uploaded from a couple of “weekend breaks@festivals”

http://www.diggersworld.net/weekend-breaks/2021-2/

 

Author DiggerPosted on September 19, 2021April 3, 2025Categories Website News

Isle of Mull holiday photos uploaded

I’ve uploaded photos from “my” recent Club 55-82 holiday on the Isle of Mull

http://www.diggersworld.net/holidays/scotland-2021-july-isle-of-mull/

Author DiggerPosted on August 11, 2021April 3, 2025Categories Website News

Clarification of Swim the Door veteran “status”

After an extra-ordinary meeting of the veterans sub-committee of the Swim the Door (UK) and numerous rounds of voting….. the “rules” concerning veteran status have now been “clarified”

http://www.diggersworld.net/swim-the-door/veterans/

Author DiggerPosted on August 1, 2021April 3, 2025Categories Swim The Door

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Durdle Door is a natural sea arch in Dorset. Every year a party of like-minded individuals get together for the weekend to swim through this impressive place.

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  • Photography
    • Self-Photography
      • The drinking (selfie) collection
      • Scared/scary looking adult (selfie) collection
      • Scared looking children (selfie) collection
      • Not so scared looking adult (selfie) collection
      • The ‘never work with animals’ (selfie) collection
      • Large number of persons in one (selfie) collection
      • River swimming (selfie) collection
      • The under-water (selfie) collection
      • The ‘silly’ signs (selfie) collection
    • Best Auto-Timer photos
    • Auto-timer TOP TIPS
  • Wild Swimming
    • NEW Wild Swim Locations
    • The Bare Necessities
    • Swimming with history
    • England
      • Best in BEDfordshire
      • Best in Buckinghamshire
      • Best in Cambridgeshire
      • BEST in Cornwall
      • Best in Dorset
      • Best in Hampshire
      • Best in Herefordshire
      • BEST in Hertfordshire
      • Best in Lake District
      • Best in Northumberland
      • Best in Peak District
      • Best in Shropshire
      • Best in Staffordshire
      • Best in Suffolk
      • BEST in Surrey
      • BEST in West Sussex
      • BEST in Wiltshire
      • Best in Yorkshire
    • Scotland
      • Ardnamurchan
      • Braemar
      • Cairngorms
      • Fort William
      • Gairloch
      • Glen Carron
      • Glen Coe/Glen Etive
      • Glen Lyon
      • (Isle of) Arran
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      • Isle of Harris
      • Isle of Iona
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      • Isle of Mull
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      • (Isle of) Ulva
      • Kintail
      • Kyle of Lochaish
      • Paisley (south of)
      • Perthshire
      • Sutherland
      • Stirlingshire
      • Tiree (Inner Hebrides)
      • Torridon/Shieldaig/Gairloch
      • Trossachs
      • Tyndrum/Crianlarich
      • Ullapool/Lochinver
    • Wales
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  • Important Things in Life
    • Digger’s Dance Tips
    • Festivals
    • Glenn Miller
    • Hillsborough
    • Mark “The Priest” RIP
    • Wombles
    • Wycombe Wanderers
  • Holidays
    • All countries I’ve visited from A to Z
    • Annual Scottish (Easter) Holidays
      • Kinlochewe Lodge (2025 Easter)
      • Bearnock Lodge, Glen Urquhart (2024 Easter)
      • Glen Lyon (2023 Easter)
      • Isle of Arran (2022 Easter)
      • Gairloch (2019 Easter)
      • Lochstack Lodge (2018- Easter)
      • Braemar (2017- Easter)
      • Glencarron Lodge (2016- Easter)
      • Glentromie Lodge (2015- Easter)
      • InverPolly Lodge (2014- Easter)
      • Benmore Lodge (2013- Easter)
      • Loch Laggan (2012- Easter)
      • Glenshiel (2011- Easter)
      • Isle of Lewis (2010- Easter)
    • Other Scottish Holidays
      • Isle of Mull (July 2022)
      • Oldshoremore (2022 Feb)
      • Isle of Mull (2021- July)
      • Tiree, Inner Hebrides (2018- June)
      • ArdNAMurchan (2017- July)
      • Island of Arran (2015- June)
      • Braemar (2010- August)
    • England & Wales
      • Dorset (2021 & 2022)
      • Caerleon (2011)
      • Hadrians Wall (July 2014)
      • Isles of Scilly (2012- September)
    • “Recent” foreign holidays
      • Argentina (2015)
      • Canaries: Fuerteventura 2012
      • Chile (2015)
      • Croatia (2015- October)
      • Croatia (2016- October)
      • Croatia (2018- October)
      • France (2015- August): Swim Le Arc
      • France (2016- August): Swim La Dor (dogne)
      • France (2018- July): Uzes
      • Lebanon (2009)
      • Sardinia (2018- August): Nuotare per la porta
      • Spain (2013- August): Granada
      • Spain (2017- August): Swim The Arco
      • Syria (2009)
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