Sometimes I hear commuters yelling at each other up on the riverbank while I’m having fun watching ducklings and squirrels
It started two years ago. I run a summer arts festival in Munich called the Kulturstrand, at the Ludwigsbrücke, a bridge that stands over the river Isar, where I have an office. I work there most days and when I do, I swim there. I’m one of those people who likes to swim in all conditions – I’ll swim in the Atlantic when it’s 10 degrees, which my wife thinks is a little strange. Sometimes I swim the river with a group of friends in the autumn or winter, but I mainly swim to work in the summer.
I live two kilometres upstream from my office. The river at that point is too wild to swim down unaided; it’s like an Alpine river. I wouldn’t even consider it without a flotation device, but then I learned about a designer in Switzerland who’d invented a thing called a Wickelfisch. It’s a waterproof bag that you can keep your stuff in; it also locks in air so acts as a float. When I saw it I bought one, and the next day I swam to work for the first time.
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