As we`re a company that`s just starting out, we`re very eager to find new ways of improving out services.

We will be constantly updating, monitoring and improving our services, to make them as efficient and effective as they can be. If you have an problems or queries you can email the team at info@homeforhome.com.

Our most recent feature is a weekly alert to the users to let you know about the latest homes that have been uploaded in your favourite countries.

The email will include photos and mini descriptions of each of the hot new houses available, so that you will have ready at your fingers the latest opportunities to do your perfect home exchange.

The email will be sent every Sunday evening, ready and waiting in your inbox on Monday. So when you roll into work with those Monday morning blues, what better way to spruce up the day than the new possibility of a fabulous new home exchange partner in one of your favourite countries!

Let us know what you think of the new idea, and if you have any comments or suggestions then let us know. We`ll be happy to hear from you

Party time. Fiesta. Festival. Plays. Summer. May poles.

There`s a lot of fun to be had in the summer months. What does the UK have to offer?

Okay, so we have a pretty damp reputation for the climate. Oh yes. It`s such a common sentiment amongst those perma-happy, glossy creatures that live in the Mediterranean that they`d never want to live in the UK “because of the weather”.

And yes, compared to a stretch from March up until October of glorious sunshine, the three weeks of good weather we have every year may seem a little measley. BUT there`s so much to do, and such distinct, brimming cultural opportunities, that you have to at LEAST take a holiday over there.

Reasons? Plentiful.

1) The Coin Street Festival

What better way to exploit London town than to get wrapped up in the stream of festivals and street parties along South Bank. The parties include Carnival de Cuba, Celebrating Sanctuary, Bossa Nova and Capital Age, amongst others.

2) The annual Manchester Jazz Festival. It started off being a simple one-day show case, and yet see how it has grown. It now boasts a nine day series of concerts all over this fantastically buzzing Northern city. Both indoor and outdoor, there will be concerts in July dotted all across the city featuring Irish vocalist Christine Tobin, Cuban pianist/vocalist Roberto Fonseca, and Manchester born La Gran Descarga to name but a few.

3) The Regents Park Open Air Theatre. This classic piece of Brit culture has been open annually since 1932, and it offers both a velvety variety of both classic and modern theatre pieces. All of this is to be enjoyed in the botanic surroundings of one of London´s plushest parks.

4) A picnic. Imagine. A pasta salad loaded with sundried tomatoes, chunks of Philadelphia cheese, smooth black olives, and prawns. Oiled up with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Then to follow, brie with cranberry sauce and crackers, strawberries and cream, and a wonderfully sparking glass of Cava. You can stretch yourself out over a wonderfully welcoming blanket spread casually over the spongy grass.

One of the best things about summer in the UK is that really wonderful smell of freshly cut grass.

These are just a few of the reasons why the UK demands a summer visit. Just to inspire your interest. It might not be tropical, but there`s definitely a jungle of culture there just waiting for you to come and explore it.

“What is the feeling when you’re driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? -it’s the too huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
Jack Kerouac

Easter is upon us. Fluffy bunnies. Eggs. Chocolate. Church. Rest. Spring. This festival certainly has a variety of different meanings to it.

But whatever you draw from it, there`s definitely the opportunity to give yourself something special. Whether you wish to recuperate from the hard eternal work slog, or whether you`d like to take some bonny days of peace to appreciate the religious sentiments or the flossy luminosity of spring, it`s a time to give yourself a chance of some easter joy.

And sometimes some of the best times are had when they`re sprung upon you spontaneously. Which is why we recommend doing a last minute Easter home exchange!

If you propose an Easter exchange now, you`re bound to find someone who is just as eager to spread the Easter sensation around and have a gallavanting spicy Easter exchange. It`s probably best if you propose something not too far away, especially considering that it would be for a long weekend, more than anything else.

But all it would involve would be a bit of organization, making a list, chucking some things in a bag and jumping in the car/on a train! And this way you would really give yourself the chance of renewel at Easter time. Which, regardless of your orientation, in some form or other, is what it`s all about.