A good life
Subtitle: at home on foreign soil
By: Derek Phillips, Klaske Muizelaar
Contributors: Muizelaar, Klaske, 1947- author
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Borderland Books
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9780983517412
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Travel; Family; Quality of life
Description: This is the touching memoir of Derek Phillips and Klaske Muizelaar and the life of love and travel they shared together. Derek, an American, had been living in Amsterdam since 1971. Klaske, born in the north of the Netherlands, had been there since 1972. Their life together centered on maintaining dignity, self-respect, and, most importantly, mutual love. At home in Amsterdam, they shared passions for work and reading, good food, music, art, walking, and travel. Despite their love of travel, such sojourns were often beyond their means. But this was to change in 1988 when, by happenstance, they learned about the phenomenon of house exchanges. Thus began their good life "at home" on foreign soil, spending five or six weeks each year living in the homes of strangers in France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Costa Rica, the United States, and elsewhere. They describe in detail thirty of the more than fifty house exchanges they experienced.