Swap homes with us?
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(English)Menlo Park, CA, San Mateo, United States
sleeps
8
We'd love to visit
Serendipity , Europe, France, United Kingdom, Italy
We are open to the following
Home swap
People in our family who will be exchanging
4 adults
Beautiful Menlo Park, 1 mile from Stanford University between San Francisco and San Jose (either 30 miles/48 km away) accessible by train (bikes allowed on train and provided) or optional car. In the middle of the best of northern California (with the best weather year-round anywhere). 2 bedrooms, each with queen bed, 2 double fold-out sofas (1 in private office with high speed internet (apple computer but also wireless internet throughout house and yard for laptop PC) and 1 in TV room (62" HDTV with surround sound) and 2.5 baths. Gourmet kitchen with expandable dining table for all your new friends, 2 gas (wood burning is so passe) fireplaces (1 in living room and 1 in billiards salon off the kitchen with BBQ on back deck. Outside, black bottom pool with spa/hot tub and a gate in the back fence that leads to a park with 6 private tennis courts (key provided) and walking/jogging trail. All 3 near-by towns, Menlo Park, Redwood City and Palo Alto have wonderful, friendly people and numerous dining, entertainment (free concerts all summer long) and shopping opportunities and 20 excellent golf courses are within 45 minutes. The ocean and Hwy.1 are 40 minutes away, 1.5 hours finds you in the wine country (north) or Monterey/Carmel (south). Why, you ask, are we willing to leave this paradise? Well, we too have a weakness for travel and would love to share the home we love. Jim (Giacomino) and Susan Walls