December 2023 – London & Brighton
Once again, as the dates of our house sit do not always fall neatly into calendar months, my monthly updates have gone slightly skew-whiff. To get back on track, following…
November 2023 – Amsterdam
London to Amsterdam Amsterdam is my favourite city in the world. I first went to visit as a teenager in 1980 and instantly fell in love with the place. Beautiful…
October 2023 – London and Manchester
Brussels to Gerrards Cross To help fund our travels we let our apartment in Manchester and our current tenant had given us notice that they wanted to leave in mid-October.…
September 2023 – Brussels
London to Brussels We had been looking forward to the arrival of September since earlier in the year when we had managed to book a four-week house & pet sit…
August 2023 – Brighton
August 2023 in Brighton was a month of ups and downs. The ups included two lovely house sits, getting to look after some pets different than the usual cats and…
July 2023 – Manchester
After what had been a really hectic June. In contrast, July, with only one house sit, in a city we know well, that covered the whole month, was a very…
June 2023 – Goodbye England, Hello Scotland!
Goodbye England Hello Scotland We were well-rested after our week in London and ready to move on again. Next Stop, Scotland. June was to be our Scottish month. With three…
May 2023 – Goodbye Australia, Hello UK!
Goodbye Australia 😥 Hello UK 😀 Sadly, our New Zealand and Australian adventure was coming to an end. With just nineteen days allowance left on our visa, we just had…
April 2023 – Sydney
During April, we had just one house sit that covered most of the month. We wanted to spend April in or around the Sydney region so were delighted to receive…
March 2023 – Goodbye New Zealand, Hello Australia!
When we arrived at Napier airport, after the events of our last week in New Zealand we were both surprised and delighted to see our flight to Australia was on…
February 2023 – More sightseeing and New Zealand gets hit by cyclone Gabrielle!
Our time in New Zealand was coming to an end and, sadly, February will be be our last month in this beautiful country. We arrived in Napier at the end…
January 2023 – Goodbye Christchurch, Hello Napier.
Happy New Year! January was our last full month in New Zealand and we had just one more house sit to do after Christchurch before we go to Australia in…
December 2022 -New Zealand, The South Island
November on the North Island was a great introduction to New Zealand for us. The time went really quickly and before we knew it, the time had come for us…
November 2022- Goodbye Greece, Hello New Zealand!
After waving goodbye to Karyo's mum we still had a week left in Athens before it was time to wave goodbye to Greece and say Hello to New Zealand. As…
October 2022 – Goodbye Brighton, Hello Greece
Me, Karyo's mum and Karyo October was a bit of a whirlwind for us. Our final house sit in Brighton did not come to an end until October 18th. We…
September 2022 – Our final house sit in Brighton.
I can hardly believe that I am sitting here, writing our September update. This means that our four-month stay in Brighton is almost over! Me and Karyo at Brighton Marina…
August 2022 – Brighton
August 2022 - Brighton - Two house sits, Brighton Pride and A Happy birthday to me! Brighton Pier We completed two house sits during August. These were to be our…
July 2022 – Brighton
Midway through July we ended our first housesit in Brighton that we had started back in June, then, in the last two weeks of July managed to squeeze in two…
June 2022 – Barnsley and Brighton
A year off work, we don't mind if he does! June 2022 started with good news ! Karyo has been given the green light to take a year off work!…
May 2022 – One years house sitting, A busy month and a visitor comes to stay!
May 2022 marks exactly one year since we started our house sitting adventure. It has been an amazing year and this month has probably been our busiest to date. In…