Swim & Sun: A Monocle Guide: Hot beach clubs, Perfect pools, Lake havens

The Monocle team dips its toe into the world of swimming, revealing one hundred beautiful and inspiring places to take the plunge.

Swimming is excellent exercise of course, but it’s so much more than that: it can be a transcendental experience, offering us space to reflect and to escape. It’s an antidote to screens and all-encompassing technology. Perhaps it’s the shedding of inhibitions that come with a dip, or could it be that getting somewhere under our own steam is an act that’s health-g...