Just when you think you've heard all the traveler complaints, here's one to think about, and it's not even the tourists, it's the locals!
Paris is saving money and power by lowering the temperature in the city's nearly 40 municipal swimming pools from 27° to 26° which is the standard for pools at the Olympics. In Fahrenheit, it's a drop from 80.6° to 78.8° with children's pools exempted.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo's green campaign calls for a 30% reduction in gas usage and this is part of it. Once the signs went up announcing the change, the complaints started pouring in. "I was so numb with cold that I had to leave the pool after 30 minutes." "when my daughter got out of the pool she was frozen like an ice cube." And more.
However, the chief of the city's sports department, Jean-Francois Martins, points out that the complaints ramped up when the signs were posted...not in the days before, when the temperature had actually been lowered!
Josephine Baker pool on the Seine (Photo: Hugues Milton/Wikimedia)
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