A few weeks ago, my husband and I attended the International Living Bootcamp in Atlanta. What an inspiring time of learning about living, working, and retiring overseas! We learned about Panama, Ecuador, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and many other locations with thriving expat communities, lower costs of living, and opportunities to experience other cultures.
One of the vendors at the event offered opportunities to invest in gold and silver coins. As a promotion, they gave out this commemorative coin in honor of Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee. I thought that some of you might like to see it.
The front
I used my printer’s scanner to grab this image; the text is blurry, but you can see the coin well.
Here’s another image, this one taken with my husband’s phone camera. Not so good—you can see the text, but the coin looks off, which is why I ran it through the scanner.
The back
Greetings, friends!
A family outside of Paris recently wrote to us asking for an exchange this summer. While we would have LOVED to do so–PARIS!–airfare would have been the same as if traveling to Munich–$7,000. So, unfortunately, we had to decline. In my email reply though, I did ask if they would be interested in considering an exchange during other times–perhaps in the winter months when fares are lower, or maybe even Summer 2012, as I understand that fares may be lower if you book far out in advance.
Another exchanger in Florida also wrote, asking to exchange homes this summer. The area was not one where we’d like to visit, so I proposed a possible three-way exchange: perhaps I could find someone in an area where we’d like to visit who wanted to visit Florida? Then I would stay in the 3rd party’s home; the third party would stay in Florida; the Florida party would stay in my home, which is what they wanted all along.
And this leaves me wondering about the etiquette of requesting and responding to home exchanges.
