This Text is created with numb fingers, teeth rattling with the keys to the bet, and anyway is not appropriate with pity, but joy. In Frankfurt, the outdoor pools open again! The question of whether a visit is worthwhile, is necessarily answered in the affirmative. Much is as it was before the long break, which was just a normal winter break, and then a nasty Corona-Pause was. But there are also differences among the old, the pandemic times. Most of the little things are. A, however, is crucial.
Florentine Fritzen
editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.
F. A. Z.
To hear the details of your ticket purchase. He is only in the Internet, not on the switch. On the weekend prior to the Opening, it is warm. In the Online Shop of the Frankfurt bathrooms photos of five curls, baths free. The Silobad is on the way, Eschersheim and Brentanobad are unheated, and in the Stadionbad of the mayor is to kick off on Monday already. So we’ll click on the good old outdoor pool in Hausen and the time to select the same window of 6.30 am to 14 PM. Thereafter, it is cleaned and disinfected, a 15-to 20 clock the next guests arrive.
On Monday morning, it is not longer warm. At the most lukewarm, and the sky is grey. It is necessary to enter the swimming pool actually already at the beginning of the time window? Fortunately, this is also one of the 28 Corona-issues of the Frankfurter bathrooms on the Internet. Answer: no, and you can even come an hour before the end of the time. But maybe it is raining then even? At half past nine the Thermometer hits 19 degrees. The clouds do not want to soft. We don’t want to wait more.
protection measures at the switch
The Parking space is properly filled. The early morning swimmers to leave him again. Poser. At the checkout a few bathers are. The man behind the Desk wants to see the Tickets on the phone or as an expression of the identity cards. Almost needless to say that all comers have to wear a Mouth guard. The strip at the locker room from. The Thorough use of the dispenser with disinfectant and RUB the hands.
On the way to the water past the baby pool is. On the metal base of the animals are painted, a seal and a frog. You lie on the Dry, the basin is empty. The beach chairs at the edge are sealed. In front of the large basins is more going on. A group of employees chatting in the Stand. Their upper parts are blue like the benches, where visitors bags turned off, and your warm clothes have been stripped. A trained man will not run from the benches directly to the water, but spins only a warm-up round on the empty lawn behind the ash trees.
We hasten through the shower behind the pool and opt for the gentle entry to the shallow end. The water is much warmer than expected. As soon as we climbed the ladder to the bottom, there is no stopping, just a Cheer: We are back! The first trains we make the greedy, the head turns off, legs paddling, arms circles, we laugh at each other and keep all the other swimmers in the water one and a half meters distance is difficult. The other laugh or smile as well.