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?

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 will design a travel plan to make your dream trip a reality.

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

Reading & Daydreaming about your trip will prepare you for the real thing.

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: you fly away from the familiar to a new land of adventure.

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

Decompressing when you arrive at your destination: stress falls away and magic begins.

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

Discover: a first stroll lets you explore your surroundings. Everything is new, including you.

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.

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.

ENGLAND

COTTAGES IN FOUR
ENGLISH REGIONS

•The Cotswolds

Heart of England

•Cornwall & Devon

The West Country

•The Lake District

Northwest England

• The Yorkshire Dales

North Yorkshire

& by SPECIAL REQUEST:

• Cambridge • Oxford
• Cheshire & Shropshire
• The Midlands

Central England

Open to vaccinated Americans & Canadians. Pre-arrival & UK tests required.

SCOTLAND

LODGINGS IN THREE SCOTTISH REGIONS:

• The Central Highlands

Scotland’s Heartland

• Edinburgh

Scotland’s Historic Capital

•Inverness & North

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.

WALES

COTTAGES IN TWO
NATIONAL PARK REGIONS OF WALES

• Mid-Wales

Brecon Beacons Nat’l. Park

• Northwest Wales

Snowdonia Nat’l. Park

& by SPECIAL REQUEST:

• Southwest Wales
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park

Ireland open to vaccinated Americans & Canadians. Test needed in No. Ireland.

IRELAND

COTTAGES & APARTMENTS IN FIVE IRISH REGIONS:

• Central Ireland

Tipperary & Clare

• Southwest Ireland

Cork & Kerry

• Northwest Ireland

Donegal & Sligo

• Northern Ireland

Antrim & Londonderry

• Dublin City Apts.

Dublin

Open to vaccinated North Americans. French Health Pass recommended.

PARIS

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.

ITALY

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

Switzerland open to certified vaccinated Americans & Canadians.

SWITZERLAND

APTS. & CHALETS ACROSS THE SWISS ALPS:

• Bernese Oberland Alps:

Mürren & Kandersteg

• Italian Switzerland:

Locarno & its neighbors

• The Valaisian Alps:

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.

ICELAND

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.

DENMARK

LODGINGS IN THREE DANISH REGIONS:

• Zealand: Copenhagen & Roskilde

• Odense & Funen

• Aarhus, Aalborg, & Jutland

Classic lodging locations in Copenhagen & Roskilde. Special request locations throughout Denmark.

Restricted open to EU & UK visitors, but NOT to Americans & Canadians.

NORWAY

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 Canadians (NOT Americans) welcome. Pre-arrival Covid test required.

SWEDEN

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.

NEW ZEALAND

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.

BERMUDA

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, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, & the UK.

CUSTOM EUROPE

COUNTRIES WE CUSTOM-PLAN DREAM TRIPS TO:

• Britain • Ireland

• Finland • Iceland

• Germany • Holland

• Greece • Italy

• Portugal • Spain

• France • Switzerland

• Denmark • Norway • Sweden

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, 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

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