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Seeking Wild Sights is a collection of nature writer, Jeni Bell’s work, blogs, and photography.
Seeking Wild Sights is a collection of nature writer, Jeni Bell’s work, blogs, and photography.
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Tolerating uncertainty is tough enough in our every day lives and it often seems magnified if your chosen way of life is an alternative one. Van Life, Vandwelling, a home on wheels or whatever you want to call it often makes us question what exactly it is that makes us call something home.
We have all got become accustomed with the same things over lockdown. The same routines, the same people, the same walks, and it’s easy to disconnect from it all. After walking the same route everyday for a few weeks, I became despondent, but in learning how to retune to my surroundings, I started to learn to see the familiar in a new light.
I’ve enjoyed wild swimming before but it was in the sea lochs of Scotland, and the coast around Dorset and Cornwall that I usually got my cold water fill. I had never wild swam in a river before, let alone a notoriously chilly chalk stream, so how could I refuse when a friend invited me to try river swimming for the first time?
