Brigerbad

On Friday, the 14th of September, we went to a swimming pool all the way out on the other side of Switzerland to a place called Brig.

It is set in a valley surrounded by mountains. It has the longest Alpine thermal waterslide in the world, at a shocking 182 metres long and it goes down the side of a mountain. Another cool feature at these pools is the turbulent pool, which had jets to push you along the loop. Every second half hour they ran the slide, and every other half hour they strengthened the turbulent pool. So we could alternate between the slide and the turbulent pool, with a 10-minute gap between them. That’s 20 minutes of the slide, 10 minutes of something else, 20 minutes of the turbulent pool, then 10 minutes of something else again, and it keeps repeating.

One downside to the pool was that it took 3 hours to get there. But on the way back, we saw some incredible sights. Mountain passes with crazy bends and huge dams on lakes.

Overall, the pool excursion was pretty cool, and it would be great to do it again sometime.