On short notice I will be in Paris, France, for most of next week. This is a week when I would like to get some meterage in.
Can any one of you recommend a place to swim (yes, I want to spend an hour or two with my head in chlorine fumes instead of wandering around the Ille de Paris.)
Parisian suburbs would be OK, also.
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Thanks for everyone's reply, especially Ion's.
After reading Ion's post, I did do some searches on various web sites. I found a few, one which included comments about the various Parisian pools. The comments went like this -
"3 lane, 25 meter pool, crowded and not particularly clean,"
or "4 lane, 20 meter pool, showers are dark and dank and not very hot, better to swim at Les Halles."
(these quotes were *not* very encouraging).
The one place that looked possible was Les Halles. I could not find Massy-Palaiseau so forgot it (it is hard to remember words that you can not even pronounce.) I had no idea where I would be staying, and Les Halles looked like a place I could find from far away.
So I got out of work early last Thursday and took the train to Les Halles. I had no trouble finding the pool (pools are like a magnet to me, I can't miss them.) But guess what?!! Thursday was a national holiday to celebrate the end of WWII, and the pool was closed!:(
But that is not the worst of it -- I was staying at the Hotel Mercure in Massy-Palaiseau, only 500 meters from the train station, and did not remember the name of the pool in Ion's post! What surprises me is that I did not even *smell* the pool. My pool magnetism had failed!;)
So, Ion, there is a good chance that I will be back to Massy-Palaiseau in the future. Can you give me more complete directions to the pool there? From the train station would be great.
Thanks for everyone's reply, especially Ion's.
After reading Ion's post, I did do some searches on various web sites. I found a few, one which included comments about the various Parisian pools. The comments went like this -
"3 lane, 25 meter pool, crowded and not particularly clean,"
or "4 lane, 20 meter pool, showers are dark and dank and not very hot, better to swim at Les Halles."
(these quotes were *not* very encouraging).
The one place that looked possible was Les Halles. I could not find Massy-Palaiseau so forgot it (it is hard to remember words that you can not even pronounce.) I had no idea where I would be staying, and Les Halles looked like a place I could find from far away.
So I got out of work early last Thursday and took the train to Les Halles. I had no trouble finding the pool (pools are like a magnet to me, I can't miss them.) But guess what?!! Thursday was a national holiday to celebrate the end of WWII, and the pool was closed!:(
But that is not the worst of it -- I was staying at the Hotel Mercure in Massy-Palaiseau, only 500 meters from the train station, and did not remember the name of the pool in Ion's post! What surprises me is that I did not even *smell* the pool. My pool magnetism had failed!;)
So, Ion, there is a good chance that I will be back to Massy-Palaiseau in the future. Can you give me more complete directions to the pool there? From the train station would be great.
