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Istanbul to Stockholm

I’m raising the bar — extending my swim from Istanbul to Cadiz all the way to Stockholm, following the Atlantic coastline and later Danmark and sweden for around some extra 8000 kilometers. It's an 11 year project. Read more
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  • Jari Cennet TammiIstanbul to StockholmJari Cennet Tammi

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    Apr 19–20, 2025 in Turkey ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    Now I don't give shit even if there comes a hail storm.
    When I was swimming today and it was going really fast, I felt such resistance and I thought it was someone holding the bag. I stop and turn around and see that my flagpole has bent, it had gotten caught in a fishing line. Now I have fixed it with a piece of steel that I found on the beach so now it is like new again.
    Last night it was cold again, I started with 2 layers of clothes but froze so much that I had to put on another layer. BRRRR    Read more

  • Jari Cennet TammiIstanbul to StockholmJari Cennet Tammi

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    Apr 20–21, 2025 in Turkey ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    I had a nice swim 3,800 m in the morning and the water is 13 maybe 13 and a half already. I love the spot where I put my tent today it's a long beach with small flat stones and I'm totally alone here. There's a lot of air around because the mountain behind me is not so high.
    Today I started working on my tan.    Read more

  • Jari Cennet TammiIstanbul to StockholmJari Cennet Tammi

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    Apr 21–22, 2025 in Turkey ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

    Already in the Morning before I started to swim I saw something in the water that looked like alges. but when I rounded the Cape of the 1500 meter I saw that it was shit in the water I would be swimming in mustard, and it got worse the longer i swam. I hope I won't get sick later today. 3 days without Contact with humans so nice. So far according to my food plan to eat when I come up from the water in a restaurant It is really disappointing.
    I had a vision that there would be small villages along the coast with a harbor and you could just go out from the water and climb a ladder and sit down and have your lunch. But it's not like this in this part of Turkey.
    Tonight looks like the wind will keep on blowing and the walls of my tent will be smashing me in the head all night long hopefully this will not happen.
    I just open the Google Maps and lukt för Supermarket Oh my god just one eleven minutes from my camping site. I even got a ride home from the supermarket.
    I have so much hassle with the zipper too close to the sleeping bag.
    Tonight I woke up warm so I had to take off my hoodie, let's see if my body stay warm without the hoodie hopfolly hit works.
    It should get me some more room inside the sleeping bag for my shoulders.
    Well in the end I got the little bit chilly around 5:00 and then I took my hoodie inside the sleeping bag and put it like a blanket over my chest and I slept till 6:00.    Read more

  • Jari Cennet TammiIstanbul to StockholmJari Cennet Tammi

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    April 22, 2025 in Turkey ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C

    I think today I will get a puncture in my madrass.There are Sticky things under my tent. I felt it wehn I was leaning on the floor with my hands.
    In case the air runs out of the mattress, I have placed my pump at the foot of the bed so I can pump up the mattress at night.
    I had a great swim this morning at 4,400 Meter. I I thought I was passing a military base there were so many fences all over, I just stuck my head deep in the water and didn't want to look to the shore I was breathing only to the left. Luckily nothing happened they could take me for a spy. The night was cold and hummid.    Read more

  • Jari Cennet TammiIstanbul to StockholmJari Cennet Tammi

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    Apr 23–24, 2025 in Turkey ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

    I just experienced my first earthquake in my life such a strange feeling, luckily I was sitting down resting my back to my bags on the grass, , if not I would surely fall to the ground.
    The wind should be like 4 m/s but the guests is so much stronger and I worried that the tent my be ripped in part this night.
    Pretty good Nights sleep not to cold and the wind died during the night.
    My plans have changed. I was supposed to be picked up tonight and driven to the other side to Sarköy and swim the part of the Sea of Marmaris that wasn't done last fall.
    It's because of the earthquake yesterday, my support who was supposed to pick me up tonight and drive me to Sarköy , has to help their elderly up in Istanbul after the earthquake. So the new plan is in september fly to Istanbul and then I swim the part that's missing over in the Sea of Marmaris    Read more

  • Jari Cennet TammiIstanbul to StockholmJari Cennet Tammi

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    Apr 24–25, 2025 in Turkey ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    Today was pretty rough because it was against the wind and the current was pushing me outwards so my GPS was redirecting me all the time, so I went without batteries off the 7,000 m. Then I saw at the shoreline that there were a lot of trees and I thought that I could search for shelter for the wind tonight. So I aimed for that point swimming but fast it gets so shallow the water and after a while it was only like 10 cm no more water so I have to drag the bags behind me all the way but not to the shoreline it was impossible so aimed for the Harbour where I now have my tent. The first one I met there was called Ali and asked him about the restaurants. Let me call my friend and ask him if the surve food this time of day. It didn't take long before Guner the Hunger came with his car and picked me up. He made my day, I had mitx salad and sardinas and 2 bears and bread of course.Read more

  • Jari Cennet TammiIstanbul to StockholmJari Cennet Tammi

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    Apr 25–26, 2025 in Turkey ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    I was swimming really well today and I made a good course in the Marlin App, so I didn't have to swim so much in shallow water. My plan was to swim 5,800, but when I saw this place it looked so beautiful so I wanted to stay here. Just have to remind myself that this is not the race this is a way to live. I had a pretty good night with sleep it was warm and cozy.Read more

  • Jari Cennet TammiIstanbul to StockholmJari Cennet Tammi

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    Apr 27–28, 2025 in Turkey ⋅ 🌬 20 °C

    Today was really exciting because I was going to pass a port where ships dock with LNH gas that will be converted into gas for bottles. I know every time I pass a port, if I don't walk around it, there will be problems. But I swam on it and it went really well because the wind was blowing aft. I just passed the ship that was docked there, when I hear a siren and see blue lights and someone screaming into a megaphone in Turkish. I can't help but smile and say that I'm going to swim to Spain. Then I get closer to the boat in the stern they have a basket. There I load my bags myself and then they hoist me onto the boat. Of course I have to show my passport that is inside the bag I take it out. Then they want to know what I'm doing.
    I tell them again what I'm doing and show them clips from Turkish TV. I've apparently passed through a military area where foreigners are not allowed. He shows an app he used, Garmin boating, and then you go in and you can see that there are dotted lines where it's a military area. My Marlin that I have for navigation doesn't have that information, I say. They say that passport control will take a good hour. I'm offered coffee while we wait. I give them each an embroidered badge about my adventure. All went well and they said you can keep swimming to Greece, just don't forget to get your passport stamped in the last harbor. problems..    Read more

  • Jari Cennet TammiIstanbul to StockholmJari Cennet Tammi

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    Apr 29–30, 2025 in Turkey ⋅ 🌬 14 °C

    Well I started early in the morning before the strong wind picked up I made over 4,000 m. I have to pick a camp site that is protected from the strong wind that it's going on until midnight. When I came to shore I met guys from Afghanistan working with this big sundeck. They offered me tea and I had a long chat with them. Suddenly a guy showed up who looked more like a boss so I went talking with him his name was Levent. So I told him what I'm doing and showed some videos. Then they asked me if I'm hungry and I said of course I'm always hungry doing this. So I got invited for a Turkish breakfast up in the restaurant since his manager is the boss.Read more

  • Jari Cennet TammiIstanbul to StockholmJari Cennet Tammi

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    May 1–2, 2025 in Turkey ⋅ 🌬 18 °C

    Well since it blowing up every morning I went away at 7:00 in the morning to get away before the waves came.. I'm so happy I stopped yesterday because I swim today wouldn't be possible today in the waves because it was Cliffs down to the border and then it was really deep 50 m and a lot of Rocks I would have hurted myself.Read more

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    Camp site Uzunkum beach

    May 2–3, 2025 in Turkey ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C

    Hello today the water was cold again I made 3,300 m. When I was swimming I didn't notice that the cliff was hanging out over the water, I smashed my forehead really badly into the rock, I thought now we will be flowing blood in the sea while I'm swimming. I was lucky no Blood came out from the wound. When I got on shore I found some tables to put my stuff on. Tiden took long before Iran Who was living in a caravan just beside came to salut me, and he invited me for breakfast with his wife. After having breakfast I went to see the reception for the camping. There I met Usgur the owner of Uzunkum beach I told him what I'm doing. Guess what he invited me for another breakfast. While we were having breakfast he said tonight you will be asleep in one of my cabins. He went away and talked with his personal and he came back and said to me, I just informed them to give you everything that you want from the kitchen. So now I'm resting in the cabin and it's so warm and cozy and the night will be for me maybe too warm. Wow that dinner was superb now I'm prepared for my 5,000 tomorrow.Read more

  • Jari Cennet TammiIstanbul to StockholmJari Cennet Tammi

    Camp site Eirkli

    May 3–4, 2025 in Turkey ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    Well I came on shore after 4,700 m. It was against the current but the wind was tailwind so I got a little bit of help from that. I'm at the lady on the beach she lives there and also for the camping and she showed me around the corner but there was nobody there working. So we went back to her place and just outside her house I asked if I could put my tent over there please. No worries she said that she brought me coffee. I checked Google maps for a restaurant that is open, so I went away to have lunch. The first restaurant was closed so I went to a market where I met a guy. I asked him if he new some restaurants close by that's Open, he said just wait a minute. Then he drove me to an open restaurant.Read more

  • Jari Cennet TammiIstanbul to StockholmJari Cennet Tammi

    Camp site Danisment

    May 4, 2025 in Turkey ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    5,500 today and once again swimming through s*** in the water there was a camping with the toilets on the beach and of course the pipe goes directly in the sea.
    Today I will post pictures and show how dirty it is along the beach is here in Turkey it's a really mess so much rubbish. And I found a turtle walking around.
    Strange It was supposed to be a warm Night. I think I know the reason for it was cold, I had put my tent at the end of a ravin with a cold wind coming down from the mountain.
    the night was very humid outside so I have to keep my trucks upside down so they are dry inside when I put in my feet.
    Today I will start swimming around Hej dirty online because I can't see the sun because the mountain beside me is to high.
    The ground was full of these small badtards. Last photo.    Read more

  • Jari Cennet TammiIstanbul to StockholmJari Cennet Tammi

    Camp site Yaylakoy

    May 5–6, 2025 in Turkey ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    This morning was a pretty nice swim smooth water no waves no wind so 4,300 I think it was really fast.
    I came on shore and saw a restaurant and I thought I would go and put my tent under its roof. Glad i didn't, after two hours they came and they started working with the tables. They will open up next weekend. My tent is fine on the beach in the sand. There's a market just under 200 meters from my place so I went there and bought two beers and drank them cold.
    I was sleeping and somebody was shouting my name and it was the restaurant owner the house just above my tent is he's. I shouted come come eat. So I got a wonderful chicken pasta and salad and some beers.
    This morning I lost my Crocs in the seaweed it was so muddy so I sank down to my knees and my Crocs got stuck in the mud.    Read more

  • Jari Cennet TammiIstanbul to StockholmJari Cennet Tammi

    Camp site Vakif

    May 8–9, 2025 in Turkey ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    Today I made 7,000 M and for once I have concrete beneath my tent it's clean and no sand I love it.
    This place is awesome. It had to be a paradise once ,but now everything is run down and destroyed. I don't know what happened here but it's a marvelous place.
    When I stop swimming I secure my pull buoy to my bag and take it up on the shore. I brought my small bag up to my camping site, and went back to the Shore to get my big bag. But my pullbuoy was missing, f*** happened and I saw it floating on the water like hundred meters away so I have to run along the beach to get it.    Read more

  • Jari Cennet TammiIstanbul to StockholmJari Cennet Tammi

    Camp site Gülçavuş Köyü

    May 9, 2025 in Turkey ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    Today I climbed the Sandy Shore to seek shelter in the Shadow under the trees. I have to be sure that the ground is leaning a little bit if it starts to rain so the water doesn't get stuck under my tent. I'm so pleased that I used the SUBTECH because it's also a backpack at the same time as a raft, so easy to move around. Starting to get a little bit worrying about the heat that will come in a couple of weeks, what will I do if I don't find Shadow to put the tent. Let's see how long I last in the heat that is coming, before I go to Sweden.Read more

  • Jari Cennet TammiIstanbul to StockholmJari Cennet Tammi

    Camp site Sultanice Beach

    May 10–11, 2025 in Turkey ⋅ 🌬 17 °C

    I had a great swim this morning with tailwind.
    And I'm so happy I found shelter behind some bushes on the beach from the wind.
    This is the first Town I've been in without minarets.
    I went to the market and bought some tuna fishing cans and macaroons.
    In the shop there is very much more alcohol than food.
    So I bought myself some beers.    Read more

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    Camp site Enez harbor

    May 13–14, 2025 in Turkey ⋅ 🌬 16 °C

    I was really tired after 5,000 m today because it against the wind and then I came ashore and man came walking..
    He asked me what I'm doing I told him that I am swimming from Istanbul to Spain. It cost a couple of hundred meters to the restaurants and to the toilet so I asked him if he could help me with my bags and he did.
    When I have changed and put on my I went to check out the toilet because I wanted to know if I could clean my laundry there. Guess what happened I got showed up he leaves just beside the toilets and things and it said you can wash your things in my laundry machine. And then they served me a delicious lunch with all kind of stuff so really pleased and. He has offering me to sleep on the floor, but I don't know because I wake up so much time in the night and I want to have some privacy. even.    Read more

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    Camping site Alexandroupolis

    May 15–18, 2025 in Greece ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    This campsite is so clean and nice in my eyes it is perfect after what I have previously encountered during the trip.
    Here are cyclists, motorists on their way east, all on adventures.
    Bought myself a camping chair. Will try to put it above my bag when I swim.
    I also had a flag change day.    Read more