General Chat

Lol - when the Olympics were first 'won', I did suggest we rented it and took ourselves off on a superdooper foreign holiday with the proceeds. :D

YOU WOULDNT WANT MINE IN A MILION YEARS
ONLY THING GOING FOR IT IS IN THE SMALL BEDROOM
(3 BED END TEREACE) IS ALL TRAIN SET UP
BIG BOYS TOYS

Muffy -- how about if we just swap and nobody has to clean anything? ;)


JRP ... yeah, you must just sound Canuck. Not sure what made me think that!


Fine, RMS, keep your mountains and Stanley Park and such to yourselves. We know your BC houses are far too valuable an investment to even consider letting central Canadian riffraff have custody of anyhow! :D


Grannyof 12 -- interesting. That what I've thought -- any kind of paying accommodation anywhere is just hugely expensive. If your house is sitting empty anyway, why not make the deal?

But yes, it would be a load of work. And as DET says, what about all the stuff you just don't want even your best friends mucking about in? Shove it all in one room and lock the door ... I know in my house it just wouldn't be feasible ... but I do have that still vacant flat next door ... That one would sleep 4-6, lovely garden, parking ... with a deceased 1994 Mazda van sitting there at the moment, but room for more.


I'm liking DET's proposal ... How are you on cats now?

If you were doing it for the Olympics, though, you could probably get a palatial residence somewhere much more exciting than here though, I fear. ;)

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How about a house (sleeps 6...or 8 with a bed settee) in the SE, close to London, but in the Garden of England, sort of semi rural? Close proximity (as in about 3 miles) from major motorway routes, 40 mins by train to London, and v easy access to a Eurostar intermediate station to take you to France/Belgium for the day. Ideally located for various historical properties (if you can stomach being a 'Mrs' you can borrow our National Trust cards) Rochester, Canterbury and the Kent Coast.

Yes you can smoke, and we might even put you on a car insurance if you can handle a 'manual'!!!

We've toyed with the idea of a house swap, particularly during next year's Olympics, but are concerned at how clean we would have to make our own, and where to store items we wouldn't want people poking around in, i.e financial papers.

I have just come back from Ireland.On the ferry back we got talking to a young Irish couple with 3 young children.They were on a house swap with a family in Cornwall.Said it was hard work getting the house ready but they did not have a lot of money so it was worth it.
Annie

Haha JC, ,maybe in a general vibe Vancouver Island way!! Based in UK!

I;d only do a house swap if they would do all the cleaning. and housework in return.....then it would be worthwhile x

Is that a taker? ;)


edit -- hold on, memory fails -- you're not on this same side of the Atlantic, are you??

**prepares brochure**

David's thread about our favourite parts of our countries -- interesting reading ... makes me want to visit ...

I can hear us in the new world clamouring for houses in the mother country now. ;)

I'm in Ontario, east of Toronto. Easy access to the beautiful shores of Lake Ontario and cruises on the St Lawrence, and to the national capital, Ottawa, with its culchah (National Gallery, theatre, orchestra) and ... uh, well, there's a casino over the river ... And close enough to Montreal for a day trip or overnight. A bit longer to go to Toronto or Niagara Falls, but doable as a weekend.

So who wants my house for a week or two? It's big! Sleeps 6 or 8 easy.

Where is your house that I'd get in return? What would I do while I'm there? Can I smoke?

And ............ how clean would you require mine to be?

;)

Seriously though -- has anyone ever done a house swap for a vacation, and if so how did it go?