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Yet another new venue for our Sunday swimming

23/9/2017

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We spent a couple of this year's winter months at Redcliffe pool and it served our purposes very well. But now it is time for yet another change. From Sunday 24 September, we move to Murrumba Downs pool for our Adult LTS, stroke correction and swimfit training. Redcliffe is good too and we will return there when Murrumba Downs closes down for the winter.

I think Murrumba Downs is perhaps the loveliest pool in Brisbane - it's a small community pool (25 metres compared with Redcliffe's 50m). It's outdoors, but it has shade cloth over half the pool's length. The depth ranges from 1.2m to 1.5m and it has nine lanes, three of which will be made available to us on Sunday mornings. It has clean, functional facilities; it is well maintained and it has attractive grassy and treey grounds, complete with a BBQ if you want to use it. They also have a coffee machine and could possibly be persuaded to actually turn it on. It is heated to about 28 degrees and It has access ladders at all four corners. The pool is on the corner of Dohles Rocks Road and Ogg Road Murrumba Downs with the car park entrance off Ogg Road. It is diagonally opposite Maccas - not that any of you fit and health swimming types would need to know that.

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Adult Learn-to-Swim, Adult Stroke Correction and Swimfit training resumes

14/9/2017

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We are back at Redcliffe pool on Sunday mornings starting this coming Sunday, 17 September, in three one-hour sessions at 9am, 10am and 11am. Both Adult Learn-to-Swim and Adult Stroke Correction/Swimfit can be undertaken at any of those times. Please see the attached information brochures - the first is LTS and the second is Stroke Correction/Swimfit. There is no change from the brochure we used prior to my departure and the prices are the same ($30 for LTS and $20 for Stroke Correction/Swimfit).
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2017 international swimtours wrapped up

14/9/2017

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My apologies for the scarcity of blog posts over the past six weeks when I have been in Europe conducting swimtours. My computer threw a hissy and I was unable to post anything for most of the time.

Back in Oz, while recuperating from jetlag, I am reflecting on the past few weeks. We had three great swimtours - Lake Constance (Germany, Austria and Switzerland), Slovenia's lakes and rivers and our flagship, Italy's Lake Orta. Lakes Constance and Orta were gentle swimming while Slovenia was hard work with long swims - but still enjoyable. Along the way, there were some interesting tourist adventures in Hong Kong, Ljubljana, Venice, Germany and the UK (and Thailand and Spain for others) as well as some notable extra swimming spots to sample in the Sun Yat Sen Memorial Swimming Pool in Hong Kong, Lake Zürich and the River Limmat in Zürich, a fabulous stainless steel swimming pool in the smallish German town of Singen, one of the best swimming centres I have seen in Ljubljana and, finally, a great swimming centre in Shakespeare country, Stratford-Upon-Avon in the UK.

There will be a full report posted under the 'Swimtours' tag on this website soon but, in the meantime, here are a few pics.

​Let me know if you would like to come in 2018.
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The fast-flowing River Limmat in Zurich
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The Lake Orta team, Sacro Monte, Orta San Giulio
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Isola San Giulio, Lake Orta, Italy
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Lake Bohinj, Slovenia
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Sun Yat Sen Memorial Swimming Pool, Hong Kong
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Stainless steel pool in Singen, Germany
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