Meetafamily: Bringing Families Together

'Wouldn’t it be useful if it was simple for one family to meet another with similar leisure interests and hobbies? This would help families to find new friends in a new place, or could just provide even more fun for all.'

This is the introduction in a press release Home Base Holidays received from meetafamily.com, a recently launched service which aims to help like-minded people meet each other, whether to find local friends (especially useful when new to an area) or to link up to share information on similar interests.

The meetafamily.com website is extensive, with over two million villages, towns and cities throughout the world available for the service. I was pleasantly surprised to find my small home town of Wiarton, Ontario indexed - and even smaller villages nearby!

Although it will obviously take some time for a service such as this to build up an extensive database of users (it is free to list and your contact details are kept private), this could well be a useful way to connect with others (Meetafamily will contact another registered family on your behalf for a small fee). I am pleased to see that home exchange has been recognised on the site as of likely interest to many who register as, after all, part of the fun of arranging home swaps is contact with others who also enjoy this form of travel and getting to know home exchange partners during the course of arranging an exchange - very similar to the ethos of Meetafamily really.