I have happily wasted so much time just hitting refresh on this incredible website
- One couple from Singapore, fed up with their coronavirus quarantine a few months ago, decided to get creative and launch a website that satisfies the wanderlust in us all since most of us can't travel right now.
- The result was "WindowSwap," a site that presents visitors with video snippets of what you see when looking through the windows in peoples' homes from around the world.
- The submissions have come everywhere from Giza to Brooklyn, and so many points in between.
About two months ago, during what they describe as the strictest part of the coronavirus quarantine in Singapore, Sonali Ranjit and Vaishnav Balasubramaniam were starting to get restless and feel "a little antsy" in the couples' one-bedroom apartment.
Scrolling through their Instagram feed one day, they spied a post from a friend who lives in Barcelona. He'd shared an image of the view from his window, looking out into the northeastern Spanish city he calls home. "I remember he was complaining about being bored of it -- he was under lockdown too, of course -- but it looked incredible to us," Ranjit told BGR via email. "We were joking about how we wished we could just swap places with him ... when we came up with the idea. If we couldn't swap places, perhaps we could swap window views. And pretend we were somewhere else for a while."
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