Make Yourself at Home
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, November, 2003 by The Staff
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The reward was clear: a free homestay in a foreign city, enjoying life like a resident, not a tourist. But to get there, you first pored over a catalog that had been printed months earlier and saw a villa that caught your fancy. You carefully wrote an elaborate, three-page letter describing your own home or apartment, attaching a half-dozen photographs. You mailed the heavy packet to the villa's owners, offering to exchange your place for theirs during your respective vacations. And then you waited two, three, four weeks for a reply. Too often, the news was that the house had long since been committed to an Australian family.
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Today, the Internet has so reduced the work of exchanging homes that more than 20 organizations are active in handling the increasing numbers of swappers. And you'll be amazed at what you can get. "A while back my ...
