We live in a leafy and lively London neighbourhood in easy reach of all major attractions. Our local station, Honor Oak Park, has just been integrated into the tube network with the opening of the new London Overground (http://www.cultureline.org.uk The South Bank is 15 minutes away and the West End 30 minutes away by tube/train. The station is 10 minutes walk away from our house and several buses also pass close by. Our neighbourhood is attractive and historic, and has an unusually large amount of green space. Five minutes walk from our place takes you to 19th century Peckham Rye park (http://www.foprp.org.uk to a notably family friendly pub (the Herne Tavern - http://www.theherne.net and to several smaller green spaces, including One Tree Hill, a wood with striking views over London. Ten minutes brings you to the Horniman Museum (http://www.horniman.ac.uk famously child friendly and known for distinguished musical and ethnographic collections, and for its nature centre and its aquarium. 15-20 minutes walk brings you to Forest Hill, which has practical shops, and, more interestingly, to East Dulwich's Lordship Lane with many interesting small shops, especially for food, and lively and atmospheric cafes, pubs and restaurants. 30 minutes walk or ten minutes on the bus bring you to historic Dulwich Village, which has beautiful houses, lovely Dulwich Park and Dulwich Gallery, one of the UK's leading small galleries, with a collection including fine Rembrandts, Poussins and Gainsboroughs (http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk For a more edgy and contemporary art scene Peckham and Camberwell are also close and are increasingly important centres for new art - there was a Peckham Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale!

We are a family of three. Sonia is a doctor and academic working in the field of psychiatry. Justin is a social policy academic. Anton is a very chatty six year old who enjoys travelling and is in his second year at the primary school close to the house. Apart from our work and entertaining our boy, our greatest enthusiasms are for music, especially classical, for our city and its history and vibrant cultural life, and for travelling. We are sociable and very much like to entertain in our nice home. One of us is half German and the other half Austrian, and we travelled a lot before our little boy came along, especially in Western and Eastern Europe. We have really got the home exchange bug, and have now had 19 home exchanges, including Paris (4 times!), Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rome, Madrid, Dorset, Copenhagen, Croatia, the Jura, Normandy,the Loire Valley and La Rochelle. We enjoy exploring big cities, but also very much like a complete change of scene, for example a house deep in the countryside.
We have an exchange booked in the summer holidays in 2012 in Granada. We may begin considering good offers for swaps from October 2013 onwards - the week beginning Oct 29 is half term holiday week here. We cannot swap outside English school holidays and are not able to do non-simultaneous exchanges. We often like to take friends along with us on swaps, and so are interested in large properties where people are happy for us to do this.