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City traffic jams are becoming a serious problem in life of any large modern city. And fight with them an individual city dweller can only relatively. But how it turns out, nevertheless, it can sometimes very original.
For example, a German named Benjamin David, who lives in Munich, which, like all residents of this metropolis, did not avoid problems with traffic jams, found an unusual way to get to work and back home at peak hours, bypassing the hassle on the roads, swearing at these terrible traffic jams, exhaust from cars and other unpleasant and unhealthy things.
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Every morning, Benjamin collects the things he needs. into a special swimming backpack and dives into the waters of the Isar River. In the evening, doing the same thing, only in the opposite direction. Two kilometers along the water artery there – two from there. In the cold season a man puts on a wetsuit, in a warm one – it costs swimming trunks.
Compared to traveling by car, it takes away from him significantly less time, but there are other advantages:
- purity of air, lack of gas pollution by exhaust gases cars;
- no one gets in the way, because those who want to repeat this the route is not yet located, not counting the ducks;
- water invigorates much better than morning coffee, and such “forced heats “improve the health of the German;
- a certain saving of money is achieved that Benjamin now spends neither on gasoline, nor on travel in the city transport;
- finally, he does not spoil his nerves for fear of being late for work.
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The drawback, as the swimmer himself admits, in this case is only one, and that one is very relative: people with shores, now here and on the Internet there are gossips, however, according to Compared with all the pros, this minus can simply not be taken in Attention…
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