057 Wild Swimming, Urban Solos And Cycle Rides - ABIGAIL TRIPP talks about London Outdoors

Travelling Through... London, the World and Life

ABIGAIL TRIPP has lived in London Waterloo for almost 25 years. She is an avid swimmer, cyclist and traveller and loves searching out the wild swimming and lido spots in and around London.

“Being in touch with the water is so important to me.”

Abigail is also a huge cycling fan and cycles all around London. Her idea of finding peace and quiet is going on early morning urban solos, a concept she first discovered while on a silent walking retreat on the west coast of Scotland near Inverie.

Closer to London, one of Abigail's favourite camping and swimming destinations is to Brightlingsea Lido and to Mersea Island.

Abigail is a founding member of Flux Soup, a collective musical and artistic group who initiate creative events around theatre, music and song. At last year’s Waterloo Festival, they collaborated with writer Sarah Gray in a production of Sarah's written work, entitled Heartwood.

On our walk from Archbishop’s Park in London SE1 she took me to the Thames and along the path between Lambeth Bridge and Westminster Bridge passing the Covid Memorial Wall of red and pink hearts. Where our discussion turns to cycling and Abigail's involvement in Wednesday morning cycle rides for women, as well as the plans she has for community building at St John's Waterloo through art, and collective creativity.

To contact Abigail at St Johns, Waterloo go to: https://stjohnswaterloo.org/

To go cycling with Abigail or others go to: https://www.letsride.co.uk/

To know more about Flux Soup go to: https://fluxsoup.weebly.com/

Facebook: Flux Soup ; Instagram: @fluxsouparts

To find out about your podcast host EMMA go to https://www.travellingthrough.co.uk/

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