“Authentic travel” is about accepting things as they are
22 Apr 2011
Why authentic travel should not be a myth.
Feels like Home – Guest post by Pauline Kenny
25 Aug 2010
Pauline is often “slow-traveling” the world so, to her, “home is where you hang your hat”. Here is what would make her feel at home in your vacation rental.
Feeling at Home – Guest Post by Keith Jenkins
08 Jul 2010
Imagine stepping off a plane, in a place you’ve never visited before, and feeling like it was a homecoming. Keith Jenkins from Velvet Escape tells a story about an experience of feeling right at home in a strange place.
Soul-searching 2.0
03 Jul 2010
A post for both our colleagues and guests. We try to see how we apply (or should apply) the 5 points of the Internet Better Tourism Manifesto to our “inn-keepers’ practice” trying to take a stock on our work up to now. Ideas and suggestions are more than welcome.
Feeling at Home – Guest Post by Ben Colclough
30 Jun 2010
Ben Colclough, founder Tourdust.com, reflects on his travels, including long periods spent on the road, an unsuccessful attempt to settle in Sydney and latterly a successful house swaps and asks, is it possible to reconcile the forces for change and home?
Feeling at home – Guest post by Rebecca Winke
17 Jun 2010
You can circle the globe searching for happiness, you can circle the globe searching for love, you can circle the globe searching for home—but ultimately you’ll only find those things by standing still a minute and searching inside.
Home Exchange – Feeling “at Home” Away from “Home”
10 Jun 2010
The third post in the Feeling at Home guest series. Lois of Home Base Holidays explains the reasons why home exchange allows you to feel “at home” in many different ways by providing a unique taste of a different lifestyle.
Mojitos and fried seafood on the river Arno
09 Jun 2010
How I discovered that I should never take allergy pills before going to my new favourite spot in Pisa!
Feeling at Home: “At home away from home in Hungary”
03 Jun 2010
Tom Greenwood spent 1000 miles away from home for 3 months in a country where he and his wife didn’t speak the language at all, yet ended up feeling at home possibly more so than we had ever done before. What was it about this time they spent in Hungary that made it so special?
Feeling at Home: “Home” by Diana Baur
27 May 2010
It’s one thing to move to a new country, and quite another to call that place home. But how do you give others a sense of home before you have one yourself? The answer lies in letting life happen, one small
step at at time. Diana Strinati Baur of Baur Bed & Breakfast in Acqui Terme, Piemonte, tells a little bit about the emotion behind starting a B&B in a place she knew she could love over time, and how that love actually helped give her the sense of home she had always hoped for.
