A Room for a Visitor

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Sometimes one builds a large home when not so old to meet various possible needs of a family.  As one ages, parents depart and children grow up to pursue their own lives visiting only in holidays. One is then left with a large home with a lot of vacant space, most of the time, in old age.

Some old persons lock away parts of their homes most of the year to reduce cleaning and maintenance chores. I too have been doing that for the past several years. However, others have found an innovative use for their homes. They let out a room or two to visitors, students or tourists. It creates a homely facility for a tourist who might wish to skip the hustle and bustle of a city hotel and save money; for a student from a foreign land it is a great facility. I lived in one such all through my student years at UBC in Canada at highly affordable rates. It was the home of a dear old lady by the name of Mrs. Cuthbert. She not only gave me a furnished place to live in but also provided all sorts of needed information during my stay with her.

With these thoughts in mind, recently, I too refurnished an independent room with a small kitchen and bathroom attached to it for use by tourists from the West. I have put up an ad about it on Craigslist in case someone was looking for such an accommodation. Dear readers from US or Europe or Down Under, if you were planning a vacation to India any time in the near future, do look it up and get in touch.

https://jaipur.craigslist.org/vac/d/vacation-in-india/6834548395.html



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