So you want a swimming pool. I know I do but
that’s because my body is getting flabbier as I get older and I want a pool for
2 reasons. I hope by exercising in a swimming pool it will tone my muscles, help
me lose some of my flab and make me fitter and the other reason is I don’t want
to scare people when I use a shared pool. When I’m in a public swimming pool
people think there’s a whale loose in it when it’s only me. Oh dear, I think I
need to diet as well.
I spent last summer vacationing in Europe. I
started in London – it rained, travelled through France and stayed in an old
converted remote farmhouse with its own pool and then travelled down through
Spain to the Costa del Sol where I then spent 3 weeks in a villa high in the Andalusian mountains with stunning sea and mountain views and of course its own
swimming pool. Both pools were unique and were self-builds. The swimming pool in
Spain had been built by the villa owner, a great guy called John, who was an ex
pat builder from London. The swimming pool he had built was 25 ft by 32 ft. It
wasn’t square, the floor wasn’t level, the tiling wasn’t level, the slope of the
floor wasn’t even, and you know, it was the best swimming pool I’ve ever been
in. It was great.
I had travelled to Spain to see the area as its
somewhere I had always wanted to visit on a vacation and do you know, I need to
go back as I didn’t see a great deal of it. I spent most of the 3 weeks I was
there in the pool. The swimming pool had what they call in England, rustic
charm. The sides were not straight, the floor tiles were slightly uneven and the
floor sloped ever so slightly from side to side but taken with the converted
stables, now a villa, and the country setting it worked and worked very well. It
was the best swimming pool I’ve ever been in. If I was building a swimming pool
this is how I would build it. However, a swimming pool like this would not work
with a new build house, it just wouldn’t suit it.
Take the swimming pool in France. This was much
more of a modern pool but again was in a countryside setting so a really formal
new swimming pool wouldn’t work and I’m pleased to say that this wasn’t a formal
swimming pool although at least everything was straight like the sides of the
pool. Again, the design was something I had never seen before. The swimming pool
sloped down from the shallow end but at a certain point, the deep part fell away
on all 4 sides to become 12 ft deep. However, it had an underwater ledge about 3
ft below the surface all the way round the pool. It was great for chasing the
kids round the pool, or for them chasing me, and we had a fantastic holiday with
2 fantastic pools.
The trouble was though that although I had a
very long vacation, I didn’t see a great deal of France or Spain except when we
were travelling. The reason, well I’m sure you can guess. If not here’s a clue.
I had 2 fantastic swimming pools. I am sure I can describe the swimming pools
better than the countryside local to where I stayed. I’ll have to go back next
year and try again but I know I’ll be distracted by the swimming pools when
choosing somewhere to stay. Then again I could try a mountain cabin with a lake
to swim in. That’s something I’ve always thought would be fun. It’s a tough
choice, lake or swimming pool. Maybe I can try both or better still perhaps its
time I built my own swimming pool at home.
About The Author
Ric Wiley is becoming established as a
travel writer and author. You can check out some of his websites at
http://www.pool-supply.info and
http://www.mountain-cabins.info.
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