It is not a time for swimming. It is 8 am and Jean is in a bathrobe on the beach in Nice: the pensioner comes out of half an hour of swimming. The few clouds at the start of the weekend did not stop him. “The water is warmer than the day we left it, he says. It was 13 ° C, today it is 16 ° C. “ Jean returned to his Mediterranean after two months of abstinence. At 66, he joined “An informal group”, diehards who bathe every day of the year. But with containment, access to pebbles and salt water was prohibited. “I didn’t want to take the risk of bathing under stress, with a drone that came to watch us. So I haven’t been here all this time, exposes Jean. I’m not cold: you don’t lose the habit. For the past seven years I have only come to the sea. “
It’s not Raymond who will say the opposite. The dean of the troop, born in 1924 in Old Nice, has never dipped his feet in the chlorinated water of a swimming pool. He lived so
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