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Homeboy<br />
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to enjoy all the comforts of home while<br />
also satisfying your wanderlust? Internet-savvy companies are now<br />
making house-swapping, homestays and ‘un-hotels’ available to budget-<br />
conscious travellers. Jenny McNeely explores the best of both worlds<br />
Photography Paul Farnham<br />
No one likes to be labelled<br />
a tourist, so what better<br />
way to travel than<br />
by tapping into the<br />
knowledge of those who love somewhere<br />
enough to make it their home? Debbie<br />
Wosskow, founder of Luxe Home Swap<br />
(luxehomeswap.com) has seen the concept<br />
gain popularity fast. “Budgets are now<br />
more constrained, and people are beginning<br />
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to see their property as an asset base<br />
that allows them to travel,” she says. “We<br />
want to travel like locals, and to move<br />
the experience of being ‘at home’ into<br />
a completely different context.”<br />
Personality contest<br />
Retired journalist Abbey tried out the ‘living<br />
rather than staying’ experience, swapping her<br />
villa in France with a flat in Copenhagen
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