A Home Exchange Will Always Conquer Bad Weather
All last night our house was battered by violent storms:thunder crashed, lightening flashed, wind gusts rattled the patio furniture, and whipped the rain against the windows. The type of weather my mother had described as a “wild night at sea”!
The thunder woke me repeatedly, but in the end my subconscious somehow attuned to it and I managed to fall into a fitful sleep, until around six a.m. when I awoke to discover that my husband was no longer beside me. Reluctantly I crawled out from under the duvet and went in search of him.
He was easy to find, in the living room, stretched out on a sofa drinking a cup of tea while watching a UK soccer game on Setanta Sports. As he pointed out, the storm had prevented him from sleeping, so why not?
Why not indeed. The situation reminded me yet again of one of the main benefits of home exchange. In inclement weather a home is akin to a haven, affording everyone room to spread out and pass the time very much as they wish. Tea and scrambled eggs before dawn? No problem! Sports on the TV while the rest of the family slumbers? Yes—you can do exactly that in a real home.
It really is so much more than saving money; home exchanging adds a whole new dimention to traveling. After all, just how much excitemnt is there to be found in yet another room in the Holiday Inn? Thye have no real identity or individuality, most of their cost constraints manifest themselves in making every room the same.
On the other hand, every home has a ’soul’, its been moulded by the family that owns it and lives in it. It’s a whole world apart from any stereotyped hotel room. No matter how much planning goes into an exchange, your actual arrival at the house is always an adventure, because no amount of photographs can ever quite convey the completely individual feel and character of a home.
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