Thames Swimmers, An epic half century, 50th swim, starting with a swim under 14 lanes of the M25, on Saturday and under the M3 on Sunday. Practice your butterfly - the M25 trolls will need a lot of appeasement. We are firmly within the bounds of London now, or at least in my rural head we are, and not far from our goal of the Teddington Obelisk. (And we are still managing to camp out.)

*CAMPING SATURDAY 20th JULY 2013* This weekend we have a Saturday #50 and a Sunday #51 swim, with a camping option on the night of Saturday 20 July at Runnymede in a Thames side garden, courtesy of http://campinmygarden.com/ at £20 per tent single occupancy or £30 per tent double occupancy. We used this two weeks ago and were made very welcome by Cormac. Bring food / drink to cook on B-B-Q and prepare to invade any riverside parties from the water under the cover of darkness.

*Please let me know if you would like to camp ASAP, so I can firm up the booking.*

**Swim #50* SATURDAY 20 JULY 2013 1:00pm Runnymede Bell Weir Lock to Staines Penton Hook Lock

*We'll meet here on Sat20Juk13 at 1:00pm, in the Runnymede Pleasure grounds car park:

http://goo.gl/maps/B6mbt

(Parking is £4.50 / 3 hours or £6.00 all day.)

We'll optionally shuttle a couple of cars down to a small car park at Egham Hythe, near the finish but on the wrong side of the river. (But we can swim across, right?)here:

http://goo.gl/maps/gurtx

(Small car park but free.)

Get changed, stroll down to Bell Weir Lock and jump in and swim down to Penton Hook Lock, stopping for Elevenses on the way down. This is swim 68 in Michael Worthington's /*'I ? the Thames*'' /and is about 4.5k.

**Swim #51*SUNDAY 21st JULY 2013 10:00am Staines Penton Hook Lock to Chertsey Lock*

We'll meet here on Sun21Jul13 at 10:00am, in Chertsey Meads car park,Mead Lane here:

http://goo.gl/maps/6kKYh

(Free car park)

This is on the wrong side of the river so we'll have to swim over to the other side and walk up to Penton Hook Lock, passing Chertsey Lock, jump in and swim back down again. This is swim 69 in Michael Worthington's /*'I ? the Thames*'' /and is about 3.1k, so we might extend itjust past Chertsey Lock to the car park.

We'll finish off at The Jolly Gardnersagain, at Old Windsor, where we had an excellent roast last time:

http://www.jollygardeners.com/

Sef and Jeremy

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