MUNICH — Fed up with the grind of taking a bus or bike to work every day on congested streets in Munich, Benjamin David started swimming there instead. The burly beer garden worker now packs his ...

Benjamin David who lives in Munich, Germany, goes to work in Culture Beach every day by swimming 2 Kilometers (1.24 miles) in the Isar River. In a YouTube video, that has been credited to the BBC ...

Sick of traffic, man starts swimming to work. FED up with the grind of taking a bus on congested streets, Benjamin David has gone to extremes to get to work every day.

Benjamin David, 40, is a familiar sight swimming 2km down the river every morning, dragging his orange bag behind him. He manages to totally avoid being mashed up against bus or train passengers ...