Lido 96: The Embassy Open Air Pool, Skegness (From Dorset Echo)
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Lido 96: The Embassy Open Air Pool, Skegness
3:52pm Saturday 23rd August 2008
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I have never been to Skegness and at first sight it looked a happy cheerful place with a real bucket and spade atmosphere. Thanks to dear old satnav and a few locals, we quickly located the pool. We
could see it from the outside and it looked very busy. The reception lady was friendly and let us go through to the changing area. We had to walk through the indoor pool, which was a dark and dismal
place. Who would want to swim there when they had the great outdoors available? I asked the lifeguard if we could possibly have a lane as the pool was very busy but he couldn’t oblige as he was
unable to leave his post. The pool itself was lovely, 25 metres long and in good condition. It took us all our concentration to avoid the many swimmers in the pool and I had to ask a few to move over
for us. 64 lengths and a quick change and we were ready for the long 5 hour drive back to Dorset. We had driven nearly 1400 miles on this 5 day tour and swum a mile in 15 lidos . We felt really
please with our efforts. Only another 4 to go!
