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Message # 11283.1.1 Subject: Re: I will be there 13th-15th August!! Date: Thu 22/07/04 22:34:05 GMT Name: leonmoomin Email: leonmoomin@ntlworld.com |
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A few things of concearn come from that statement.
"This year's big innovation will be the pool with changing rooms, showers and bathing suit dispensers for those who forget their gear."
Bathing suit despensers? Hmm, does that mean no entry without a bathing suit?
"Designed primarily for children, the pool will also host aqua-gym classes for adults starting with sessions for early risers at 8:00 a.m. It will be filled with treated municipal water and cleaned like a regular pool."
Designed primeraly for children, hmm, looking more and more like a standard municipal pool!
"Lifeguards will patrol the pool that will be installed between Paris' Marie and Sully bridges."
Lifeguards, I'm positive they will probably be chasing fully clothed people out, I could be wrong and be very pesimistic, but, I doubt it! So will this pool be an excuse to get people out of the fountains also, eg, There is no need to go in the fountains anymore, there is a pool by the Sully bridge!
Could be good, but could be a pain?
leonmoomin |
In reply to Message (11283.1) I will be there 13th-15th August!!
By Wet Brian - bdann0875@rootesgroup.fslife.co.uk Thu 22/07/04 07:41:07 GMT Website: www.apex-wetlook.co.uk Hi, This is an annual happening in Paris,called Paris Plage(or Paris Beach). This is an area along the Seine that has a man made beach,plus adifferent wet area each year....Last year they had showers attached to a wall,but the jets were so fine,it was more of a mist than a shower,so you had to stand under them a few seconds to get any kind of wetness!The swimming pool looks promising this year though!!
Here is a report on this year's beach PARIS (Reuters) - It's got palm trees, deck chairs, and sand -- and at long last, Paris' city centre beach is now going to offer people a place to bathe.
Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said on Thursday the fourth year of Paris Plage (Paris Beach) would include a 220-square metre swimming pool where people could cool off without plunging into the polluted River Seine.
"Ever since we first did this, everyone's been asking: 'When will be able to swim?'," Delanoe told reporters at the Paris town hall. The pool will be ready for opening in two weeks.
"This year we are increasing the amount of water on offer with sprinklers, a water maze and a 220-square metre swimming pool that is 1.1 metres (four feet) deep."
The beach, copied in Berlin, Budapest, Lyon and Milan since Paris's Socialist mayor pioneered it in 2001, opens from mid-July to mid-August and drew three million people last year.
This year's big innovation will be the pool with changing rooms, showers and bathing suit dispensers for those who forget their gear.
Designed primarily for children, the pool will also host aqua-gym classes for adults starting with sessions for early risers at 8:00 a.m. It will be filled with treated municipal water and cleaned like a regular pool.
The 2004 edition of Paris Plage, which will again stretch over three kilometres from the Louvre Museum to the Ile Saint Louis, will cost two million euros (1.3 million pounds), though sponsoring deals mean the cost to taxpayers is 600,000 euros -- 200,000 less than last year.
Lifeguards will patrol the pool that will be installed between Paris' Marie and Sully bridges.
Last August, Parisians and tourists alike were grateful for the water fountains and sprinklers of Paris Beach during a heat wave that killed 15,000 people, mainly the elderly and sick.
This year Paris' bridges will be illuminated at night, a sandpit set up for sandcastle-builders and a water-sprinkled walkway will wind through a maze of tropical plants.
"The city can be aggressive and stressful...the idea is to provide support and pleasure for the hundreds of thousands of residents who don't go away on holiday," Delanoe said.
Despite concern the crowded beach would also prove a paradise for criminals, Delanoe said the worst crime last year was the theft of a mobile phone.
Other attractions at the beach include a climbing wall, trampolines and beach volleyball. But one of the biggest sports is sprinting for the 200 deck chairs and 40 hammocks.
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In reply to Message (11283) River Seine - Paris
By James - richardhead82001@yahoo.co.uk Thu 22/07/04 06:06:03 GMT Hi This may be of interest to Brian or Leon. There's an artificial beach in Paris over the next 4 weeks or so, with a swimming pool for about 200 people, sure to be plenty of wetlook.
Unfortunately won't be going, as one is a bit skint at the moment, but maybe of interest for some people.
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