Homelink seit über 25 Jahren
Wir sind schon über 25 Jahre Mitglied bei Homelink und haben es nie bereut. In über 60 Tauschen rund um den Globus haben wir in grossen Villen und kleinen Stadtwohnungen gewohnt, mal für ein Wochenende, mal einen ganzen Urlaub. In ruhigen Gegenden, in die man sonst nicht kommen würde oder in quirligen Zentren von Metropolen. Immer wieder sind wir von den unterschiedlichen Lebenskonzepten, die sich in den Wohnungen zeigen begeistert, so manche Idee hat Einzug in unsere Wohnung in Berlin genommen. Aus einigen Kontakten sind sogar Freundschaften geworden. Ich hoffe, wir können es noch lange weiter fortsetzen und wir freuen uns jetzt schon auf den nächsten Tausch nach England 2027. Danke auch an das homelink- Team uns das zu ermöglichen.
Grüsse aus Berlin
HomeLink members for over 25 years
We’ve been HomeLink members for over 25 years and have never regretted it. In more than 60 home exchanges around the world, we’ve stayed in everything from spacious villas to small city flats, sometimes for a weekend and sometimes for an entire holiday. We’ve discovered quiet places we might never have visited otherwise and stayed right in the heart of bustling cities.
We’re always fascinated by how people’s homes reflect their different ways of life. We’ve even brought some of their ideas back to our own flat in Berlin. And some of the people we’ve met through exchanges have become friends.
We hope to keep exchanging for many years to come, and we’re already looking forward to our next exchange in England in 2027. Thank you to the HomeLink team for making it all possible.
Best wishes from Berlin!
Kommentar:
English:Since 1983, we have enjoyed two or three home exchanges a year with HomeLink all over the world. In well over 50 exchanges, we were disappointed by an exchange partner only once—and that was many years ago.
We spent wonderful weeks abroad, and even two full months in Australia, living not as tourists but as guests in our “second home”. Through contact with our exchange partners’ neighbours, friends and families, we learned a great deal about the countries and their people—often discovering that reality was quite different from the usual stereotypes.
Four weeks in Hawaii, three weeks in New York City, four weeks on Fripp Island, a private island in the United States, three weeks in Paris, and three or four weeks at a time in Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Rome, Vienna, Ireland, Scotland, England, southern and northern France—the list goes on. All these journeys became unforgettable experiences because we were able to meet local people and live almost as they did.
As ordinary tourists, we would never have discovered many of these places and regions. Home exchange enabled us to avoid mass tourism and experience places from a completely different perspective.
I recorded some of these experiences in writing and later published them in a book. In it, I describe deserted beaches, walks without meeting another person and towns where the only people we encountered were locals. This way of travelling is also distinguished by extraordinary hospitality and the tremendous trust shared between exchange partners.
Our heartfelt thanks go to Manfred Lypold and Daniela Gocker for the outstanding support they have given us throughout all these years!