I was in Paris about 10 years ago and went to public lap swimming at the Les Halles pool. It was not crowded, probably because it was Sunday morning, around 10:00. It was in the lowest basement of a large indoor multi-level shopping mall. I got lost trying to find the pool inside the place.
It did use ozone at the time and not chlorine. The pool was set up for lap swimming in the 50-meter direction (or was it 33 meter???) Anyway, there were small signs at each lane (in French) about what stroke or kicking each lane was reserved for. I thought it was weird that lanes were designated by stroke and not speed.
There was also a strange 'pool' of about 18-inches of water that one had to walk through on the way to the pool deck and back into the locker rooms. Not having seen this before, I didn't know what this was for - rinsing off the feet before stepping on deck maybe?
I was in Paris about 10 years ago and went to public lap swimming at the Les Halles pool. It was not crowded, probably because it was Sunday morning, around 10:00. It was in the lowest basement of a large indoor multi-level shopping mall. I got lost trying to find the pool inside the place.
It did use ozone at the time and not chlorine. The pool was set up for lap swimming in the 50-meter direction (or was it 33 meter???) Anyway, there were small signs at each lane (in French) about what stroke or kicking each lane was reserved for. I thought it was weird that lanes were designated by stroke and not speed.
There was also a strange 'pool' of about 18-inches of water that one had to walk through on the way to the pool deck and back into the locker rooms. Not having seen this before, I didn't know what this was for - rinsing off the feet before stepping on deck maybe?
