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Frans and Betty Swaalf from Hoogeveen swim in flowers on their 70th wedding anniversary
“We have run out of vases,” says Frans Swaalf (95 years old) beaming. Amid a sea of flowers, he sits with his wife Betty (93 years old) in their sheltered…
“In July I will swim in the Seine”: Mayor of Paris ends ban after more than a hundred years
Swimming in the Seine has been banned in Paris for more than 100 years, but now Mayor Anne Hidalgo has announced that she will jump into the river herself in…
Rowers rule at Sports Gala Groningen. ‘I first had to learn to swim again before I could row’
Groningen sport was celebrated on Monday evening with a beautiful Sports Gala in MartiniPlaza. Rower Marloes Oldenburg succeeded Melvin Twellaar (also a rower) as Athlete of the Year. The Sports…
Throat penguins take an absurd number of naps per day: more than 10,000 (even when they swim)
Throat penguins take more than 10,000 naps a day – even while swimming. The naps last about 4 seconds on average. This means that the penguins sleep a total of…
Girls from 10 years old in the swimming pool of Bredene: “You can never swim at all”
“My daughter began to shake as soon as she was in the swimming pool.” This is what the mother tells her daughter, who is 10 years old, in FAROEK. In…
Amber (43) has only just started taking swimming lessons: ‘I want to be able to swim with my children’
Amber Badam (43) is from India, but has lived in the Netherlands for fifteen years. He never learned to swim in his home country, but here too he never got…
Jo (73) lives next to a smelly stream: ‘I used to swim here’
The water in the Zandleij near Cromvoirt is dirty and stinks. Earlier this year, people who were mowing the grass on the shore on a boat suddenly felt unwell, possibly…
LOOK. Special: dozens of dolphins swim with the ship on the North Sea
They see seals every day, but dolphins? And then also a school of at least fifty animals. This is a rarity for the crew of the ship Hurricane of shipping…
Coastal lifeguards: ‘Swim only in supervised areas this weekend!’
Coastal lifeguards: ‘Swim only in supervised areas this weekend!’ Summer vacation is over. This means that there are fewer monitored zones. There is always one guarded zone per seaside resort.…
Tropical weekend: coastal lifeguards ask bathers to swim in supervised areas
Tropical weekend: coastal lifeguards ask bathers to swim in supervised areas “Not every lifeguard post on the coast is still manned after the summer holidays,” says An Beun of the…