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The 2025 Swan Upping – A Better Year?

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The annual Swan Upping event on the River Thames, started on Monday at Sunbury Lock in Surrey. I grabbed my camera, jumped on my bike again and followed the flotilla on the first leg, through to the Swan pub in Staines.

The Annual Swan Upping 2025, Chertsey, Surrey, July 14, 2025. ©Douglas Kurn
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How terrified would you be launching yourself off a cliff?

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I came across these paragliders, down by the coast a couple of weeks ago, and watched in awe as they took off around me. I like to keep my feet firmly on the ground so could only admire them as they jumped off the cliff, with only a big sheet to keep them from crashing into the rocks and sea below!

©Douglas Kurn
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