Affordable Travel
Another huge advantage of this type of collaborative travel, are the dramatic savings you can make on the costs of accommodation by living in a community rather than a hotel or
hostel. Savings can be significant in an expensive European country, especially a city like Paris.
In exchange for caring for someone else’s home, their property and their pets they will offer you free accommodation, and more importantly a local guide with recommendations for all manner of local activities, artisans and the best views of the city.
All the experiences, however simple or ‘normal’ they may seem in daily life can be pretty exotic to the uninitiated when they are experienced as a local.
"... The restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.” Lawrence Durrell
Lamia Walker is the founder of HouseSitMatch.com