article_snippet.sent: The North Sea stretches before myself.
article_snippet.sent: So best of all has to be swimming outdoors, and here on the East coast in Suffolk it is now warm enough — just about — for the North Sea.
article_snippet.sent: And despite the greyness, the appalling cold, and the downright bleakness of the North Sea here, Imyself in heaven.
article_snippet.sent: On the nearest beach to me, the determinedly old-fashioned Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast, I watch doughty local residents wander through the town in great towelling robes for a morning dip, proudly showing off bodies leathered and tanned by years of immersion in the sea.
article_snippet.sent: So I will continue to confront the North Sea, take delight when the temperature climbs a few degrees as we head into summer in the weeks ahead and then grit my teeth again as my teeth plummets back into winter.
highlights_snippet.sent: Now goes for regular dips in the bracing 8C waters of the North Sea .
  