Hi to all,
My wife and I were just chatting about the brilliant house swap we did with a couple from The Lake District in Sept 09, we had joined a web site that puts potential swappers in touch with each other and had not had a great deal of success for the first several weeks,(house swapping BTW involves leaving everything in your house, and in MOST cases a motor vehicle, behind while the other couple/single/family does exactly the same) we were getting a little despondent when my wife noticed a couple were wanting to swap and mentioned that they also were going to leave a car AND bike behind.
As we had almost identical bikes (Beemers) for our everyday mounts we decided to contact them and the deal was done.
We spent an amazing month in the UK with a car and a bike (and bicycles), the total cost was our airfares and normal day to day living expenses (fuel, food, Guinness) cheapest (and best) overseas holiday I have ever experienced (did I mention the Guinness).
I was wondering therefore if the VOC should have a register of people that would be interested in house swapping, stating the likes of prefered locations, dates, availability of vehicles etc........what do you think?
I know that most people in the UK would not like Queensland because it can get terribly cold down here, some nights as low as 65 Deg F......BRRRRRR!!!!
I would be interested to hear your thoughts.
Regards to all
Kevin
My wife and I were just chatting about the brilliant house swap we did with a couple from The Lake District in Sept 09, we had joined a web site that puts potential swappers in touch with each other and had not had a great deal of success for the first several weeks,(house swapping BTW involves leaving everything in your house, and in MOST cases a motor vehicle, behind while the other couple/single/family does exactly the same) we were getting a little despondent when my wife noticed a couple were wanting to swap and mentioned that they also were going to leave a car AND bike behind.
As we had almost identical bikes (Beemers) for our everyday mounts we decided to contact them and the deal was done.
We spent an amazing month in the UK with a car and a bike (and bicycles), the total cost was our airfares and normal day to day living expenses (fuel, food, Guinness) cheapest (and best) overseas holiday I have ever experienced (did I mention the Guinness).
I was wondering therefore if the VOC should have a register of people that would be interested in house swapping, stating the likes of prefered locations, dates, availability of vehicles etc........what do you think?
I know that most people in the UK would not like Queensland because it can get terribly cold down here, some nights as low as 65 Deg F......BRRRRRR!!!!
I would be interested to hear your thoughts.
Regards to all
Kevin