I remember watching the movie The Holiday back in the day and 1. dreaming about owning a cottage as charming as Iris’s and 2. like many, being introduced to the idea of a house swap.
It saw Iris (Kate Winslet) switch her cosy cottage in Surrey for Amanda’s (Cameron Diaz) swish mansion in LA. But did I ever dream I’d be swapping my own home in Drumcondra 17 years later? Never in a million years.
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