We are looking for an exchange for 4 to 9 (or 12) July 2020, somewhere in Kent, just the two of us. Also, we are open to invitations for 2-3 weeks from 1 August onwards (Italy: from 25 July onwards) to any place in Europe that offers room for 5 people, us plus our adult son and daughter as well as our 16 year old, preferably near a beach, river, lake or good spa.

We have two cats in our house in Göttingen. Our second home in Basel, Switzerland, is pet-free.

Our house dates from the 1920s, is full of character, and renovating it is a never-ending task. We proceed as funds allow. In 2013 we roofed it and added two balconies. in 2014 we renovated the kitchen. Our furniture is a mixture of family pieces and flea marked findings (some renovated some not yet), added by pieces from IKEA and lately some from antique shops. Altogether it maybe called "shabby chique".
We have lots of toys, a number of musical instruments, including a piano and a drum set. We can only receive about 15 German TV programmes but we have a vast DVD collection and an X-Box Kinect which we enjoy on a nice big flat screen. We have thousands of books, quite a few of them in English.
We love gardening but again the garden is a work in progress: A spacious stone veranda and huge cherry tree, and some old roses with mixed borders, a small potager - some parts newly planted, some still fairly wild. As we live in a city the whole place is only 500 m2.