Vienna, the ultimate swimming city?
<p>As the weather warms up and the prospect of a summer holiday looking unlikely, many have all been yearning over past summers. I have recently been thinking of my swimming days in what some might think an unlikely swimming destination: Vienna.</p>
<p>Austria’s capital city, Vienna, sits on the eastern edge of the Austrian Alps and the start of the vast Hungarian Plains. Famous for its cultural heritage and great thinkers, it could well be at the top of people’s list if they wanted to experience a concert, the opera or visit some art galleries. The Blue Danube is more well-known as a waltz in concert halls than somewhere for swimming. On arriving in Vienna a few years ago I had heard of its typical large eastern European or German open air swimming pool complexes, but it was only on joining the office swimming crowd in the Kaiserwasser, a short walk from the Donau city business district and UN headquarters, that I realised this was but the tip of the Viennese open water scene.</p>
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