Download or read book A Beginners Guide to Home Swapping - written by Jan Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you wish that you could go abroad cheaply and have a whole house to stay in? With home swapping you can! Find out what it's like to swap your home with others from your own country or others around the world. Also how to swap cars. Find some detailed advice on how to start swapping your home, or having a hospitality exchange where you go and stay with other members whilst they are there, or doing a youth exchange. Two weeks or two months? New Zealand or France or Finland or the USA for example. It's up to you. Imagine only having your flight to pay for your family - not big accommodation or car costs! Learn about living as a local - visiting local attractions, supermarkets, national parks, towns, and markets rather than doing so as a tourist."Obviously you need to be committed to taking care of your swap's home. On one of our early exchanges which we went on in June 2003 I negotiated with a member in Norway who enjoyed telling me jokes, however he was also very organised. When we arrived at his home we had a good look around the house. At that time we used to swap computers with other members which we don't do now everyone has tablets and the internet on their phones. So we went to look for the swap's computer so that we could use it for email. The large house had three floors. In the basement was a computer but on the first floor was also another computer. We hadn't been instructed which computer to use so we asked if we were doing the right thing when sending our first email to say that we had arrived safely. The swap seemed puzzled. "There is only one computer in the house and that is upstairs" and in his usual jokey way "Perhaps there is a ghost"! " Read more to find out the answer to this puzzling situation!