The annual New Year's Day swim has taken place all over Europe.
Thousands of Dutch revellers braved the ice-cold water and take a New Year's Day plunge in the North Sea in Scheveningen, near The Hague.
The annual New Year's Day swim is a tradition across Europe, as it is on Christmas Day. In London, swimmers took a dip in the Serpentine, in Hyde Park, and in Italy in the River Tiber.