Month: October 2021

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Nagoya

Travelling to internatonal events like the 2022 FINA World Masters Championships provides an opportunity to explore Japan. Research and planning is required for this adventure and mywaterworld.life likes to share the fruits of its research.

Touring around needs to be accompanied by a bit of training, especially if you are in Japan prior to the championships.

Why Nagoya? – well there are many resons – one being that it is on the bullet train route between Tokyo and Fukuoka . Why not stop and have a look around and while there you can still do your training.

The city has a rich history and is a major centre for industry and commerce (think Toyota). While there, check out the incredible railway museum, one of Japan’s best amusement parks and of course Nagoya castle.

mywaterworld.life has out together an information page, including the usual pool guide, which you can find on the Nagoya page.

You chould also check out this quirky video of Ten Things to do in Nagoya.

And now that the World Masters Games have been postponed (again) you have more time to travel around. Even more reason to compete at the FINA worlds.

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Heading to Japan for the 2022 FINA World Masters Championships

A guide to Hiroshima

Planning a trip overseas to FINA World Masters Swimming Championships provides an opportunity to visit new places, learn about the culture of your fellow swimming competitors and the country the championships are being staged in, indulge in the local cuisine and visit some special places.

Driven by the need to find pools to train in, mywaterworld.life started compiling material about a number of cities in Japan. That initial research then led to the idea of sharing that material with those that are thinking of heading to Japan and Fukuoka in particular.

The first city of focus, for a reason that has now escaped, was Hiroshima, so check out what mywaterworld.life has put together about that city.

The next city that mywaterworld.life will look at will be Nagoya.

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Australia – International COVID-19 Vaccination Certificate

Hello everyone, the Australian Smartraveller website has just (11:54 am 20 October EDST) released its update and advice about obtaining your International COCID-19 Vaccination Certificate.

Australia and Australians are now gearing up for OS travel so it is important to be prepared. Don’t leave it to the last minute.

The first thing that you need is to be double vaccinated as many, if not all, international destinations will require a proof of vaccination before they let you in.

Who knows what sort of travel insurance will be available, but the best way to provide yourself with some cover at least, and some protection for others, is to be fully vaccinated.

Once you are fully vaccinated, or even in anticipation, check out the advice on Smartraveller.

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MYWATERWORLD.LIFE awakens from its covid* induced slumber

After a break of a few months, mywaterworld.life has awakened from its slumber to see the world, with our Australian eyes, opening up to us. We sat here, quietly inactive, as much of Australia was effectively in lockdown and we were overcome by a miasma of despondency and wondering when we would return to some level of normalcy. After the silence for the last few months, we are now back up and running and enthusiastic again.  

Over the next few weeks we will start energising you with new posts, news items and a renewed focus on training. Australians are slowly coming out of lockdowns in a number of States and aquatic centres, with both outdoor and indoor pools, are progressively opening as well.

Australia’s vaccination rates are sky rocketing so the evening sky has turned pink and we are getting ready to go. We are now scaling the heights of vaccination rates and our most populous state, New South Wales has announced that it’s opening its border to international travel from 1 November 2021*.

As an opener, mywaterworld.life has set up a new page devoted to providing news and updates about the next FINA Masters World Championships.  You can check out the page from here or the menu link.

It’s great to be back and preparing new content!

  • Nothing to worry about on this count. No covid-19 at mywaterworld.life. We are double jabbed and have been since 9 August 2021. We hope you are fully vaccinated as well and looking after the safety and health of your friends and family as well as everyone else that you come into contact with.
  • [Editor’s Note – always read the fine print as at the moment (16 October 2021) it only applies to Australians that are fully vaccinated and landing in Sydney from 1 November.  For definitive details, check the Australian Department of Home Affairs Covid-19 website for the latest provisions.  https://covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au/travel-restrictions