River Thames to the strong current of the river, but also other river users. Organised swimming events take place at various points generally upstream of Hampton Court, including Windsor, Marlow and Henley. In 2011 comedian David Walliams swam the from Lechlade to Westminster Bridge and raised over £1 million for charity. In non-tidal stretches swimming was, and still is, a leisure and fitness activity among experienced swimmers where safe, deeper outer channels are used in times of low stream. A Thames meander is a long-distance journey over all or part of the Thames by running, swimming or using any of the above
River Thames whale Whale", which was recorded by his unnamed alternative rock band for their album "The Good, the Bad and the Queen". At their BBC Electric Proms concert (26 October 2006), Albarn introduced the song by saying: "This next song started off as a love song, for someone I love. And then a whale came up the Thames... And it turned into a song about a whale." On 21 December 2006 Channel 4 screened "The Whale That Swam To London", a 60-minute documentary about the events of January 2006. Throughout the two days that the whale was in the Thames waters, there