Feel the fear and swim it anyway
The sea swimming phenomenon was a bandwagon too far, thought this landlubbing writer... until she learned to take the plunge in Waterford
‘You’d better get in. I’m going to be unbearably smug about this later,” I say to my companion as we stand on the diving platform beside our swimming teacher, Ronan O’Connor. We’ve just had a lesson in the swimming pool at the Cliff House Hotel in Ardmore – and now we’re outside for the slightly less controlled, much colder second part – sea swimming.
My seven-year-old had looked at me sceptically a few days earlier when I told her about the trip. “Can you swim, Mommy?”
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