Swimming is a year-round pastime along Copenhagen’s harbour. Outdoor baths feature pools and basins for swimming and jumping, and there are clubs offering saunas.

What should you wear on a trip to Copenhagen? Not much, perhaps. In Denmark’s canal-wrapped, harbour-hugging capital, outdoor swimming is a year-round pastime – a boon for travellers who really pack light.

“In Copenhagen we love to swim,” said resident Andreas Borges, who spent a recent afternoon steering me and a travel companion through the city in an electric skiff from GoBoat. Patchy, unpredictable-looking clouds scudded above us; Borges wore sensible shorts and a polo shirt. Yet bronzed bodies lined the shoreline where we met at GoBoat headquarters, by the city’s biggest canal and the floating swim platforms of Islands B

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