New year, new you: Swims and sunrises to kickstart your 2018

Ellie O’Byrne suggests some interesting ways to spend January 1, to get 2018 off to a great start

Whether you spend it on the sofa nursing the mother of all hangovers with a greasy takeaway and a movie, or whether you dive determinedly into a fervent “new year, new you” exercise regimen, New Year’s Day can often be a bit of a funny one.

With any luck, you’ve had some time to take stock in that lull between Christmas and New Year’s Eve: what did you achieve, survive, suffer or learn from in the past year? What do you want to carry forward into the next? What will the coming year hold?