I hate swimming, but if it is necessary, I can do it. It was a real drama for me to learn to swim. I failed to learn it in school, when we had a year of lessons for it. Than my uncle who was a long-time leader in the scout camp and a very practical person, sort of Spartans, could not stand my total inability to learn so obvious thing so he worked over it obdurately. So I have learned it finally but I am not very good in it anyway, I can't swim under the water, I swim very slowly and it is more like that I am able to somehow protect my body from drowning and also to carry my body from point A to the point B even on the water :) But to be honest, I absolutely don't miss it. I don't find anything exciting in taking pleasure from staying in the water, sea, beach or similar, it is a real tedium for me...