Espace de Liberté

We visited this place while on a recent trip to Narbonne. It's part of a complex that also includes a bowling alley. If you're planning on visiting then bus or car from Narbonne centre takes about 10 minutes (we drove).

A few things you should know:

There's an inside and an outside part to this. It looks as though it started life as an outdoor pool with some slides and they added the indoor bit later.

They DON'T ALLOW YOU TO WEAR BOARD/BERMUDA SHORTS HERE. Bear that in mind. You have to wear the kind of trunks you had back in 1974 or, worse still, Ze Loaner Speedos which, on my 6ft 2in 210lb frame looked like a walrus flossing.

The lifeguards tend to go to lunch between 12 and 2pm and when they are not on duty outside you cannot use the outside slides. This is a shame because the indoor one is slooooww and unexciting.

If you're going plan to go earlier on the morning or after 2pm when the outdoor slides are manned.