First swim of summer

The weather here has been glorious for the last 2 weeks with temperatures around 26C and a couple of days with 30C!

At 8am its 18C and blue skies.

So we donned our plastic shoes and went swimming much to the amusement of the locals with many comments like 'you must be new!'. We managed to pick a good day as the first 12 " of the lake had been nicely warmed by the sun although it was b*****y freezing when you dived off the swimming platform.

Naively we tried the same thing a couple of days later and I got no further than my ankles as the wind had been blowing and it had whipped up all the cold water from the bottom of the lake and it was unbelievably cold....although Shaun did persevere with a full on swim and came out with a slightly blue tinge.

Apparently we really have to wait a few more weeks until it gets to 18C (yay!!)