The other day I got all ready for a swim, even Lee was coming along, but when we got downstairs the pool was closed. I assume one of the elevator notices informed us of this but, of course, they're no help to us. They're been washing the windows of our building and it turns out they were working above the pool that day. Window washing here involves a lot of water pouring off the building and that day the pool was where the water fell. I wondered what they were going to do about cleaning the pool water. After all, who wants to swim in dirty Windex water? The solution? Empty the pool and refill it with clean water.

I'm not sure if I've just been ill-informed about these sorts of things or if Taiwan does things differently but I'm constantly learning new things here. Don't walk under window washer without a large umbrella and if your pool water gets dirty just throw it out.