So I started collecting beautiful baths.

Pool collector Meder was not greeted by the smell of chlorine in every swimming pool.

Europe's most beautiful pools

Subject Safety standards in public swimming baths

Some children jumped down and ran to the rock pools with bags.

Each have swimming pools, aqua parks, dolphinaria and oceanaria.

Pool collector Meder discovered some notable examples during research in Hungary.

There were fish caught in rock pools left behind by the receding water.

Santander is a geologically unstable area and they are trying to mine and make cyanide pools there.

(a) The way in which swimming pools are constructed (risks of accidents such as slips, falls, impacts, drowning, etc.)

The architectural historian Meder looked at more than 200 swimming pools and has now compiled here experiences in her recently published book Badefreuden (The Joys of Bathing), covering everything from public swimming baths in Munich to historical bathing palaces in the Black Forest and hardcore concrete buildings in Taunus.

There are also a number of soccer fields and at least three municipal and many private community swimming pools.

One day, I asked myself why swimming baths always have to be so ugly, says Vienna based Meder.

The Commission is aware of the potential risks of bathing in public swimmingpools in the Community.

Because the spent fuel pools did not have enough capacity, only 92 bundles of the spent fuel rods were retrieved.

As regards the protection of bathers against the risks due to inadequate basic hygiene and supervision in public swimming pools, it is in principle for the competent national authorities to check the adequacy of such arrangements when granting authorizations to open public swimming pools.

And I know because when you look at the rainfall, these particular insects, these Globe Skimmers breed in temporary rain water pools.

What is the Commission doing to promote the introduction of minimum standards of safety in respect of swimming pools open to the public throughout the Community?

Splashing in the diving pool and ethereal sauna oils the wellness factor in baths is so great because all the senses are stimulated, according to Meder.

And swimming baths can be a real treat for the eyes if the builders have gone to the trouble. You have the surface of the water in pools instead of a floor.

Following its careful modernisation in 1995, the Palais Thermal is the favourite swimming pool of pool connoisseur Iris Meder and not just because she comes from the Black Forest.

Aerial surveys now detect garden swimming pools tax assessors investigate yachts moored in harbors and no transactions above 1,000 ( 1,268) may be made in cash.

Paddling pools with universal fibre optics and status pools in Budapest. Travellers can experience Europe's incredible water and relax tired limbs in a Jacuzzi after a city tour or a ramble.

Iris Meder, however, was at one point disappointed in her search for beautiful bathing places. When she tried to visit the outdoor pool at the Czech baths of Luhatschowitz, she found the area sealed off.

She found nitrate rich water in a karst cave (the Cave Bath in Miskolctapolca) and a thermal bath filled with alkaline water in a bottle shaped building (Városi Termálfürdö in Jászberény) in addition to magnificent therapeutic baths such as the 100 year old Széchenyi baths in Budapest.

Many of the heated outdoor baths in Switzerland and Austria, on the other hand, offer spectacular views. You can view all of Zurich from a rooftop bath or look out on the snow capped Arlberg from an outdoor pool in St. Anton. And there is a window in the steam bath giving a view of the action on the ski piste.

Reading the Brussels paper Le Soir last Thursday, I found an admirable double page spread on the right there was a photograph of Prince Johnson's soldiers alongside the skeleton of the former President, whom they had just boiled, and on the left there was a report on European indignation at the fact that black South Africans were still not being allowed into swimming pools.