Public Swimming Pools In Bangkok, Thailand! The public swimming pools found in Bangkok offer a great way to cool off during the summer months. With a pool at your disposal, you can swim, sunbathe, and relax all in the same …
New York City is the best example of a concrete jungle, but if you’re planning to head there for a vacation, buildings and skyscrapers aren’t the only things you’ll see. New York is actually packed with both public and private …
Bear with me, forgive me even…. this is a rather personal wishlist of hotel pools I would like to swim in before I hang up my togs and set off to the great swimming pool in the sky. During lockdown, …
Snorkelling The Reefs of Atauro Island, Timor Leste The sea snake leads us on a merry underwater dance, both as it glides sinuously through the open water and as it winds itself around and through the coral. Our twins have …
Looking for a hotel in Cairns which has a wonderful swimming pool? Let me show you the flashiest and splashiest of the best hotel pools in Cairns. I have stayed in three of these four hotels myself and gave the …
Swimming is both a childhood rite of passage in Australia and a national obsession. Surf beaches, harbour pools, rivers, billabongs, creeks and dams are where children learn to swim, keep on swimming and then visit with their own kids and …
I am planning to stop over in Singapore on my next trip back to the UK. So now I need to work out which is the best hotel to stay in Singapore, and by best I mean the one with …
Here follows a list of books about swimming. If you are looking for inspiration, you’ll find plenty here. These are mainly memoirs of swimming to survive trauma, but there’s also more bucolic descriptive books plus a warm and entertaining novel. …
My sandals for swimming! A swimming friend recommended these plastic Birkenstocks and I found some shortly later. They’re now a fave element of my swimming clobber. The Arizona is the classic Birkenstock style. These are made of ethyl vinyl acetate …
Swimming in the sea, in rivers and in lakes, is one of life’s great thrills. Luckily, there are plenty of places to do it. From the chilly waters of Orkney and Alaska to the warm Pacific. Call it ocean swimming, …