British adventurer completes charity swim up Vltava

British adventurer Paul Whitaker finished a charity swim up the Vltava River on Saturday. Mr Whitaker swam 175 kilometres upstream, having started in the south Bohemian city of České Budějovice 19 days earlier. Entitled Vltava Assistance 2010, the charity event raised funds for the Czech NGO Assistance that helps handicapped people. The British swimmer said the journey was exhausting but that it made a nice holiday.