BBC author Kate Ashford explains how to effectively plan for your sabbatical in her article Planning a Sabbatical? Smart tips for the journey. From the length of preparation time to how to do it less expensively, she covers many relevant points. She writes, “If it…
Gabrielle Blair is the captain of DesignMom.com, a website full of fabulous tips and information at the intersection of motherhood and design. This year, she is taking her whole family to live in France and has found a perfect home in the beautiful Normandy region….
Living a bicontinental lifestyle from Berlin to Los Angeles—each city with a different culture—home is where you make it. It’s Deike Peters’ fifth time successfully finding renters for her Berlin home through SabbaticalHomes.com. She, her screenwriter husband, and two children have chosen to live a…
With the endless knowledge derived from traveling the unknown, don’t you think Benjamin Franklin would have been eager to use SabbaticalHomes.com? The thought of Benjamin Franklin being a SabbaticalHomes.com member if he were alive today tickled my mind while touring the Benjamin Franklin House during my…
Minds on the Move Around the World with Professors Konrad and Hannelore Jarausch Professors Konrad and Hannelore Jarausch have active academic appointments that bring them across all corners of the globe. They are both on the faculty at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Konrad…
More Than Just a Home Sitter…One member’s story of friendship SabbaticalHomes.com member Debra Deliso enjoys her work as an actor, teacher, director and writer in the greater Los Angeles area. Home Sitting brings her across the vast city and helps inspire her work. When fellow…
Shelley Miller reveals her biggest secret, “With home exchanging you will never say, ‘I wish we could afford to travel.’ Instead you’ll ask, ‘Where should we go next?’.” We were so pleased when this up-and-coming author (Postcards From Home: Exchange the home, save the family)…
Last January, my family spent a month in Vietnam. While we were away, a family from Christchurch, New Zealand, had their own holiday in our home. They weren’t friends or relatives; in fact, we’d never met them until the day they collected the key. The…
Being Retired Needn’t Mean Living in the Past Rosie Millard investigates de-cluttering one’s home in retirement. Besides enjoying a fresh and tidy space, earning extra income through newly available room(s) is an added bonus. Millard mentions, “…worth checking out is www.sabbaticalhomes.com, which advertises rooms to…
The Guardian’s Jill Papworth explores nearly a dozen ways to earn extra money. One of her ideas is to rent out an extra room in your place. She describes the idea in detail, noting, “Californian-based website Sabbaticalhomes.com, which is run primarily for academics and teachers…
