Comments on: You May Not Fall in Love On Your Next Trip, But…. http://www.movingfrommetowe.com/2008/04/12/you-may-not-fall-in-love-on-your-next-trip-but%e2%80%a6/ Succeed and Savor Life With Others...by Kare Anderson. What can we do better together? For greater accomplishment, adventure and friendship let’s harness the power of us. Share ways to thrive in this next chapter of your life with others. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:24:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Shel Horowitz http://www.movingfrommetowe.com/2008/04/12/you-may-not-fall-in-love-on-your-next-trip-but%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-2228 Shel Horowitz Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:39:32 +0000 http://www.movingfrommetowe.com/2008/04/12/you-may-not-fall-in-love-on-your-next-trip-but%e2%80%a6/#comment-2228 Let me add a different strategy. Home exchanges are great, but I think homestays--where the people who live there are part of your visit too--are even better. We've been members of Servas, an international homestay network, since 1983, and so many of our travel memories are bound up with people we've met through this wonderful network. US: http://www.usservas.org - elsewhere: http://www.servas.org An article I wrote about memorable homestay moments was just reprinted in Australia: http://tinyurl.com/co8tja Let me add a different strategy. Home exchanges are great, but I think homestays–where the people who live there are part of your visit too–are even better. We’ve been members of Servas, an international homestay network, since 1983, and so many of our travel memories are bound up with people we’ve met through this wonderful network. US: http://www.usservas.org – elsewhere: http://www.servas.org

An article I wrote about memorable homestay moments was just reprinted in Australia: http://tinyurl.com/co8tja

]]> By: Kare Anderson http://www.movingfrommetowe.com/2008/04/12/you-may-not-fall-in-love-on-your-next-trip-but%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-980 Kare Anderson Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:25:04 +0000 http://www.movingfrommetowe.com/2008/04/12/you-may-not-fall-in-love-on-your-next-trip-but%e2%80%a6/#comment-980 Lois What an affirming opinion re the experience of exchanging homes in this way - and your blog is chuck full of helpful insights. Thank you Lois
What an affirming opinion re the experience of exchanging homes in this way – and your blog is chuck full of helpful insights. Thank you

]]> By: Lois http://www.movingfrommetowe.com/2008/04/12/you-may-not-fall-in-love-on-your-next-trip-but%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-966 Lois Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:31:07 +0000 http://www.movingfrommetowe.com/2008/04/12/you-may-not-fall-in-love-on-your-next-trip-but%e2%80%a6/#comment-966 I thought you might like this quote by<a href="http://www.homebase-hols.com/ihea/houseinfo.cfm?id=8441" rel="nofollow">an experienced home exchanger from Wales</a> in <a href="http://www.homebase-hols.com/news46.shtml#article2" rel="nofollow">a recent issue of Home Swappers Newsletter:</a> 'I have come to appreciate that the process of home exchange is more than just about exchanging your home and how tidy you find it on your return. When you exchange homes you often experience a kindness and level of trust that so often feels in short supply in today's busy world. When else would you freely hand over the keys to your home, invite people you may never meet to sleep in your bed and use your car? As a family, we have stayed in many different types of homes and neighbourhoods and had experiences we would never have had if we not been on a home exchange. My children still talk about the open air cinema in Switzerland (the tickets were left as a gift), the ice cream they received from the kindly neighbour during the heatwave in France, the children who came to call when we stayed in Ireland, the invite we received from our exchange partners' friends in Canada to use their pool, the neighbours who called with fish from their fishing trip etc.' Cheers from London Lois <a href="http://homeexchangetravel.blogs.com" rel="nofollow">Travel the Home Exchange Way</a> I thought you might like this quote byan experienced home exchanger from Wales in a recent issue of Home Swappers Newsletter:

‘I have come to appreciate that the process of home exchange is more than just about exchanging your home and how tidy you find it on your return. When you exchange homes you often experience a kindness and level of trust that so often feels in short supply in today’s busy world. When else would you freely hand over the keys to your home, invite people you may never meet to sleep in your bed and use your car? As a family, we have stayed in many different types of homes and neighbourhoods and had experiences we would never have had if we not been on a home exchange. My children still talk about the open air cinema in Switzerland (the tickets were left as a gift), the ice cream they received from the kindly neighbour during the heatwave in France, the children who came to call when we stayed in Ireland, the invite we received from our exchange partners’ friends in Canada to use their pool, the neighbours who called with fish from their fishing trip etc.’

Cheers from London
Lois
Travel the Home Exchange Way

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