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01.07.2002
Home Exchanges with Intervac
Doing a Home-Exchange, does this mean anything to you? The system is rather simple: you exchange your apartment / your house with someone else during your vacation: you live at this person’s place and your exchange partner comes to stay at your place in the meantime. There are many advantages in doing this: (1) You pay nothing for accommodation during your vacation and enjoy a nice apartment or a beautiful, comfortable house. (2) You do not have to eat out three times a day, and usually you exchange cars. How does it...[more] Category: France, Turkey, Canada, United States, Poland
30.08.2002
Boca Raton & Florida
We actually spent many days at the pool in a beautiful and quiet “gated community” in Boca Raton, partly with friends we invited to stay for a couple of days. If you do so, you need to let your exchange partner know. We did travel to Key West and to St. Petersburg, Florida, Miami, Fort Lauderdale and in the interior of Florida, a different world! On our way back to Europe we did a quick stopover in Manhattan. Nothing spectacular, but a many nice memories and nice photographs![more] Category: United States
30.04.2006
Washington, DC
In 1993 / 1994, Heidi spent an unforgettable and formative year at Georgetown University. A few years later Gilles invited her to return to this city, where she had enjoyed an exciting year amidst great people. Heidi is still in contact with most of them and so this visit turned out to be THE reunion. Georgetown is one of the most scenic areas in Washington, DC, a prestigious neighborhood to live in and the home of many politicians and moneyed people. DC is famous for its museums, thus we visited its latest hype, the Museum of...[more] Category: United States
10.03.2009
A trip not planned - Fleeing the scene
Let’s look at the positive side of life: if I had not been fired, I would not have spent two weeks in the Bay Area, California. Losing my job came completely out of the blue. Though, looking back at the last few weeks on the job, it became apparent that I had been hired upon a lie by a man who would not accept anything else but his very opinion. Well, and this changed a few times a day. In the beginning of March the Bay Area, and especially San Francisco, is much more pleasant than during the summer. Not only because there are...[more] Category: United States
15.03.2009
Skiing in the Sierra Nevada
Those who are sick of crowded ski resorts in Europe, read on: eight feet of powder snow, perfectly clear blue sky for three days and most important, the slopes around this small but pleasant resort in the Sierra Nevada were almost ours. Of course it sounds weird to fly ten hours to go skiing, but once you are there, why not! I should have remembered that we were at the same latitude as Sahara and that in California, at 2.800 meters you still have pine trees … And put a little more sun block. Well, in the first evening I had a...[more] Category: United States
20.03.2009
San Francisco & the Bay Area in March
It was most stunning to discover San Francisco without a cloud in the sky! During my former travels there, I only experienced cold & fog, fog, fog … This time, I simply enjoyed walking around the different districts, the Mission, Ashbury Haight, Twin Picks with a stunning view over the city and Pacific Height and its steep hills. A special treat was the Castro District on St. Patrick’s Day, an incredible experience. Most unbelievable was getting a good view of Golden Gate Bridge completely clear of fog and clouds, something I had...[more] Category: United States
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