The Sunday mid-day team loves to work hard — in fact, we bring you this 36-page edition every Sunday, because we love it. But we also like to let our hair down — and that’s when we decided we would go for a team outing.

But it’s summer in the city, and whatever we did had to be one that didn’t tire us out. So we decided on a pool day. But, finding a pool in the city that doesn’t need a membership or expect you to shell out a hefty cover charge was like finding a needle in a haystack.