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pool lifeI love to swim, but more than that I can think of no greater pleasure than of being in the water. I love to float, I love the sensation of being immersed, the sensory deprivation of being underwater. I love light reflected off water, the shapes of bodies - my body - seen through liquid. I love pool design and I love spa town architecture. I love to visit pools and baths with character wherever I am.

My history is peppered with pools of all kinds and this little section - part travelogue, part memoir, part factor X - is devoted to that fact.
Boris Maninger Boris Maninger
Swimmer, Scholar and Pool Fan
Brackley is the place I was born Brackley
The warm water made you sweat
Salty The Brine Baths
Saltier than the Dead Sea
Budapest Budapest
Visiting the motherlode
It's a very small pool Castletown
A very small municipal pool
You don't have to swim straight DGI Byen
The pool with the marvellous ellipse
I saved a life The Drowning Child
She lived
Splish splash The King Swam Here
Yes he did
Hagabadet in Gothenburg Hagabadet
Egg-shapes and candlelight
It's got a lot of rules Hamilton Fish
No shitting in NYC
Care for a dip? Hampstead Women's Pond
Genteel bathing
It's a noseclip Hereford Baths
The mums and dads went "Aah"
The sign is all that remains Hornsey Road
The sign lives on
Linda Troeller's Healing Waters Linda Troeller's Healing Waters
Take a dip
César Manrique is the man Los Jameos del Agua
Look but don't touch
Monaco Monaco
The Rainier III Pool
Moseley Road Baths Moseley Road
Not long for this world
Generic, kidney-shaped The Motel Pool
Girls, booze and chihuahuas
Mud Mud
Immersed in stinking spaw
Pool party NOLOSE
Fat-bottomed girls
My tootsies

Our own pool
We are the luckiest people alive

Pools, fjords Pirbadet
Modern pools aren't so bad
The pool at Portmeirion

Portmeirion
My boyfriend swims

Memory of pool Rheindahlen
The first pool
Schwimm! Schwimm! The Schwimm-hallen
The Euros do good pools
mmmmmosaic Oil HQ
Sublime mosaic, creepy atmosphere
 
Spa World Spa World
No tattoos in Osaka
Takegawara Takegawara
Japanese Sand Bath heaven
Swoon at the beauty Therme Vals
The loveliest pool
 
Kaldbadhuset Varberg
No peeking at the hardy nudists
My colonial past Victoria
Mum reaches for another G+T
High ceilings, statues, yummy The Volksbad
A palace of bathing
   
 
Lidos.org.uk
Swimmers Guide
River Swimming
Victorian Turkish Bath
London Pools Campaign
Late Night Pool

Will you recommend me a pool please?