Realizing Your International Travel Dreams —
Your journey begins in the immense sky.
Over the vast ocean, you sleep
high above the storm.
SIX STEPS TO MAKING YOUR DREAM TRIP COME TRUE —
1. DREAM
Do you dream of international travel?
• Maybe stories you have read or movies you have seen have inspired you.
• Maybe tracing family roots is your ambition.
• Maybe music, theater, or sports are your focused goals.
Whatever your reasons to travel overseas, your international travel dreams can come true. This is where the travel experts at Home At First come in.
2. dESIGN
Tell us your travel dreams. We design a free trip proposal for you, with all the right flights, lodgings, & ground transport you need to turn your international travel dreams into realities, efficiently and economically. Only when you accept your personalized trip design is your deposit payment due. Once your deposit is received, we put in place all the arrangements to make your dream trip come to life.
3. dAYDREAM
Read & daydream about your trip! Before your trip begins you receive a comprehensive guidebook keyed for your destinations. Thirty days prior to your departure you receive all necessary trip documents (tickets, vouchers, passes) plus detailed arrival information, including your overseas addresses, contact information for your lodgings and your hosts, and specific meeting plans for arrival day.
4. dEPART
Departure Day. Check-in and Security and two hours of Waiting-to-Board (sorry). Then the big bird soars. The wise flier snores. Too soon breakfast interrupts rudely, signifying the approaching landing. Terra Incognita appears out the cabin window. A new world appears as if out of your airplane slumber. Dreams begin to transform into first impressions, not hardened enough at first to be considered realities.
5. dECOMPRESS
Arrival Day. In some prearranged way — train, bus, taxi, rental car — you find your foggy way to your first night’s lodging. Bed’s invitation wrestles with your curiosity to explore. Bed mostly wins, at least for a couple of hours. You wake in a new place where you barely remember arriving. Time seems as fuzzy as your mind is groggy. You are hungry. Your first meal will help reestablish order. Relaxation begins. Peace happens.
6. dISCOVER
Your International Travel Dream Begins. A new morning — the first day of your new life. Take a walk. Eat a fresh pastry with a reassuring coffee or a change-up tea. Watch closely. Listen even more closely. Hear strange language: familiar words now sound foreign. Observe all around you. Dare to speak, to order, to shop. Can you find your way home? Home. Your new home. Comfortable. Roomy. You’re Home At First.
FIND YOUR DREAM TRIP HERE:
Home At First Destinations
around the World
Featuring Quality Hosted Lodgings
Open to vaccinated Americans & Canadians. Pre-arrival & UK tests required (until 11FEB22).
LONDON
SUPERBLY LOCATED CENTRAL LONDON APARTMENTS:
• Tower Bridge North
near historic Tower of London & Tower Hill tube.
• Tower Bridge South
in fashionable riverside Bermondsey.
• London Bridge North
near Monument tube station.
• London Bridge South
near London Bridge station.
Open to vaccinated Americans & Canadians. Pre-arrival & UK tests required (until 11FEB22).
COTTAGES IN FOUR
ENGLISH REGIONS
Heart of England
The West Country
Northwest England
North Yorkshire
& by SPECIAL REQUEST:
• Cambridge • Oxford
• Cheshire & Shropshire
• The Midlands
Central England
Open to vaccinated Americans & Canadians. Pre-arrival & UK tests required (until 11FEB22).
LODGINGS IN THREE SCOTTISH REGIONS:
Scotland’s Heartland
Scotland’s Historic Capital
The Northern Highlands
& by SPECIAL REQUEST:
• Glasgow
• The Borders
• Isle of Skye
• Mull & Iona
• Outer Hebrides
• Orkney & Shetland
Open to vaccinated Americans & Canadians. Pre-arrival & UK tests required (until 11FEB22?).
COTTAGES IN TWO
NATIONAL PARK REGIONS OF WALES
Brecon Beacons Nat’l. Park
Snowdonia Nat’l. Park
& by SPECIAL REQUEST:
• Southwest Wales
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Ireland open to vaccinated Americans & Canadians. Test needed in No. Ireland (until 11FEB22?).
COTTAGES & APARTMENTS IN FIVE IRISH REGIONS:
Tipperary & Clare
Cork & Kerry
Donegal & Sligo
Antrim & Londonderry
Dublin
Open to vaccinated North Americans. French Health Pass recommended — available in pharmacies.
LEFT & RIGHT BANK
PARIS APARTMENT LOCATIONS:
Central Paris
Apartments
in safe, attractive, desirable neighborhoods near attractions, the Métro, restaurants, and services:
Arrondissements 1-8, 11, & 18.
& by SPECIAL REQUEST:
• Provence
• Normandy
• Alsace
Open to vaccinated Americans & Canadians w/ negative pre-arrival test.
ROME, TUSCANY, & 5 SPECIAL REQUEST REGIONS:
• Central Rome Apts.
• Tuscany: Siena Estate
• Tuscany: Hill Country
& by SPECIAL REQUEST:
• Amalfi Coast
• Cinque Terre
• Florence
• Venice
• Sicily
Open to vaccinated visitors. 2 tests & Swiss vax certificate required.
APTS. & CHALETS ACROSS THE SWISS ALPS:
Locarno & its neighbors
The Matterhorn & Zermatt
& by SPECIAL REQUEST:
• Eastern Switzerland:
Pontresina, the Bernina Alps, & the Upper Engadine
Open for fully vaccinated visitors with negative pre-arrival PCR or antigen test.
CIRCLING ICELAND:
THE RING ROAD TRIP
Boutique Hotels, Inns,
& Apartments around
Iceland’s Ring Road
including Reykjavik,
volcanoes & glaciers.
Independent discovery set itineraries of 3, 7, & 10 day lengths, or custom-made for your budget, interests, and time constraints.
Iceland is combinable with most European destinations.
Vaccinated Americans & Canadians welcome without test or quarantine.
LODGINGS IN THREE DANISH REGIONS:
• Zealand: Copenhagen & Roskilde
• Odense & Funen
• Aarhus, Aalborg, & Jutland
Classic lodging locations in Copenhagen & Roskilde. Special request locations throughout Denmark.
Certified vaccinated visitors welcome without testing or quarantine.
OSLO, BERGEN, &
THE FJORDS
Plus Stavanger, Kristiansand, Lillehammer, Ålesund, Trondheim, Lofoten, & Tromsø
Lodgings at 8 classic & 5 special request Norwegian locations including the World Heritage Site fjords.
Vaccinated Americans & Canadians welcome without testing or quarantine.
LODGINGS IN FIVE CLASSIC REGIONS:
• Stockholm
• Uppsala
• Gothenburg
• Lakeland
• West Coast
Boutique Hotels, Inns, & Apartments at 5 classic & 4 special request locations across Sweden.
BORDERS CLOSED to North American Tourists indefinitely.
NORTH & SOUTH ISLANDS — A ROAD TRIP OF DISCOVERY:
Individually planned itineraries using boutique lodgings with outstanding hosting in:
• 7 North Island regions
• 7 South Island regions
Vaccinated US, UK, & Canadian visitors welcome. Strict testing protocols.
BETWEEN BRITAIN &
THE CARIBBEAN:
Bermuda offers much
more than its famed pink sand beaches. We offer cottages & inns across the island.
OPEN to vaccinated Americans & Canadians: Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden Switzerland, & the UK.
COUNTRIES WE CUSTOM-PLAN DREAM TRIPS TO:
• Britain • Ireland
• Finland • Iceland
• Germany • Holland
• Greece • Italy
• Portugal • Spain
• France • Switzerland
• Denmark • Norway • Sweden
Covid 4.0.
It’s January, 2022, and, after 2 full years of the Covid pandemic, the arrival of the latest virus variant, “omicron”, has everyone wondering if we are back at the beginning, or if the virus is evolving into something that will permit us to return to “normal”.
No industry has been more negatively impacted by Covid than international travel. Here at Home At First we’re optimists. We have to be in order to get through this enduring pandemic. We believe that wider spread vaccinations (and booster shots) plus the introduction of promising new oral medications will minimize the threats of Covid variants, possibly rendering the risks of getting Covid to something akin to the risk of getting the flu.
We are also realists. We see that Covid comes and goes in waves, which cannot be absolutely predicted. Although Covid in Europe is high now and climbing dramatically in both the United States & Canada, the charts suggest that the numbers of infections may fall again dramatically in a couple of months. We may already be seeing the beginning of such a downturn of cases in the UK.
We intend to survive the pandemic intact and be ready to serve our clients. Our best resource is our dedicated team with years of professional experience as international travel planners.
Meanwhile, continue to do your part: get vaccinated & boostered, mask & maintain proper distance, and follow the science. And, when the time you want to travel comes, remember, Home At First is still ready.
— Ron Fahnestock & Judi Taussig Fahnestock, Editors
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A Letter from Home…
THE KEY TO ENDING THIS PANDEMIC: International travel is not a right. It is a privilege we believe Americans & Canadians even of modest means should be able to afford. Historically, wars, terrorism, and natural disasters have at times limited our ability to travel to certain destinations. Now, the plague of Covid-19 has placed limits on international travel. We should not be free to potentially add to the spread of the pandemic. Science has provided us with a passport for international travel that most destinations recognize as low-risk to them and to us: the vaccines accepted & approved as effective. They are the key, not only to permitting international travel to continue, but to ending this world-wide pandemic. If you are fully-vaccinated — and boostered — you are a big part of the solution. Thank you for helping us all. Here at Home At First we look forward to helping you enjoy the great privilege of international travel.
— Ron Fahnestock, Editor
HOW TO BUILD, PRICE, AND BOOK YOUR TRIP —
Contact HOME AT FIRST: (800) 523-5842 (toll-free USA & Canada) • +1 610 543 4348 (worldwide) • info@homeatfirst.com