It's sooo good to be outdoors and in water again. This year, the outdoor swimming pool complex will have to substitute for Mallorca and my beloved Bad Orb, which has the best outdoor swimming pool facility of those that I've experienced so far in my life.
However, despite the recently refurbished swimming pools looking all nice and shiny, clad as they are now not with tiles but with stainless steel panels with studs on them, they are still relatively boring places to swim in.
What's missing is something nice to look at, as you swim with goggles on and your face in the water. What's missing are interesting depictions of life on the sea bed. Why don't they have paintings of sea creatures or coral reefs on the sides and the bottoms of swimming pools.
Bad Orb even has a pool that's filled with natural, unchlorinated water, water that is cleaned by a nearby reed pond, and what's missing - in my opinion anyway - are a few trout. That would definitely make swimming there more interesting.
So why don't pool designers do that? Enliven the chlorinated pools by displaying images of underwater life, whether from tropical water or temperate. That would surely draw a few more people to the pools, wouldn't it?
This is my place to be in the early hours:
Followed by a flask of coffee and a bit of reading on the grass under a tree while drying off.
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