Since two years
we are going to watch the Peter Pan Cup swimming race on Christmas Day morning
at Serpentine in Hyde Park. It’s nice to walk early morning in empty London
streets and then to watch Serpentine Swimming Club’s yearly tradition.
Waking up
at five o’clock to be there on time (because on Christmas day there isn’t any
public transportation and there are only few black cubs on duty) and getting
out in a dark and cold winter morning,
is not looking so sympathic maybe but enjoying the emptiness and the silence of
the streets, having fresh winter morning air in Hyde Park, receiving candies as
Christmas Day treats from Santa who is waiting us in Serpentine, listening the
bagpipe which is announcing the beginning of the race, watching the bravehearts
jumping in the ice cold brown waters of Serpentine, is quite a good experience
for two foreigners who live in London.
This year, the race was as successful as
last year’s. But this year, when the swimmers were out of the water and running
to the mulled wine for heating their purple bodies, we were as wet as they were
because of the rain which is quite surprising thing in our little kingdom.
