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Learning a Language with a Home Exchange
As you know, I am a keen home exchanger. We have just redeemed three home exchanges in Australia (Coff’s Harbour, Adelaide and Drysdale) and enjoyed hospitality in Melbourne with the home exchangers of French friends in Paris. Jean Michel, less … Continue reading
Posted in Accommodation, French language, Home exchange
Tagged home exchange, hospitality, learning French in France
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Lost in Australia
I can’t believe that we left Blois nearly a month ago! After our first brief stay in Delhi, we have been in Sydney, Armidale, Coffs Harbour, Adelaide and Melbourne. We are now in Kennet River on the Great Ocean Road … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Home exchange, Travelling
Tagged adelaide, armidale, coffs harbour, home exchange
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Secret Venice – Carpaccio and Grande Scuola di San Marco
As this is our second time in Venice and we’re (almost) living like locals, the main attractions are not on our list. Our home exchange is in Castello, which is a working class area of Venice. Our host, Pierleone, is … Continue reading
Sofia – Third impressions
The starting point for our third walking tour of Sofia is the Archeology Museum opposite the Presidential Palace and the changing of the guard which I described in my Second Impressions of Sofia. The oldest museum in Bulgaria (formerly the … Continue reading
Budapest – more accommodation problems
We’re driving along the motorway to Budapest pleased to have our Aschach and Bratislava accommodation experiences behind us. This time, there should be no problems. We have organised a home exchange with an American couple who have a well-located apartment … Continue reading
Posted in Accommodation, Cycling, Home exchange, Hungary
Tagged Esztergon, home exchange, Szentender
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10 Do’s and Don’t’s of Home Exchange
We’re now up to 8 home exchanges and ready for more but I’ve drawn up a little list of do’s and don’t’s. If I have been remiss in any of these areas in the past, I hope that my exchangers … Continue reading
The Wonderful World of Home Exchange
If you’ve been following my blog recently, you will have noticed that most of the places we stayed in Australia were home exchanges. Our first swap was last February in Madrid. Since then, all our exchanges have been with Australia … Continue reading
Wine Tasting in Tassie
Our four days in Sydney were spent catching up with family and friends, some of whom we hadn’t seen for 3 years, which was wonderful but exhausting particularly since we arrived a day later than I had expected which meant … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Australian customs, Travelling, Wine
Tagged home exchange, Launceston, Velo vineyard
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