February 2025 – Paphos & London
Sadly, our time in Cyprus was coming to an end. In February, we had three house sits booked. Our final one for this visit in Cyprus, and then two more…
January 2025 – Athens, Crete, and Paphos
To start, Karyo and I wish you all a (very) belated Happy New Year. Thank you for your continued support in reading our ramblings. Have you made any New Year's…
December 2024 – Cyprus
We had really enjoyed our November spent in Corfu and were eager to continue our plan of only pet-sitting in warm destinations for the winter. For December, we applied to…
November 2024 – Corfu
Winter 2023/24 =🥶 After enduring last years miserable, cold, wet, winter in the UK, we had promised ourselves that would be our final UK winter and hoped to spend all…
October 2024 – Four more London sits!
We have booked to leave the UK in November (more on that later!), and are flying out of Gatwick Airport. Wanting to keep our travel to the airport as short…
September 2024 – An anniversary, and we squeeze in four more house sits!
September arrived and with it came an anniversary. Unbelievably, September the 4th 2024 marked four years since we gave up our permanent address. Who can forget our first attempt and…
August 2024 – Bromley, Beaconsfield & Surbiton
We love all pets but truth be told, dogs are a lot more work than cats. After caring for eight dogs in our last six house sits, we looked forward…
July 2024 – Brighton & Horsham
The BIG NEWS for this month is that Karyo has retired! The seed for Karyo to retire was first planted when we went to New Zealand and Australia at the…
June 2024 – East Wittering and London
Last month, Karyo's mum, Anastasia, arrived from her home in Greece for her annual visit. On this visit, we had arranged two house sits for her to share with us.…
May 2024 – Brighton, Birmingham, Manchester
We normally choose the destinations of our house sits fairly randomly. Not putting too much importance on where we are at the start, or end, of the month. However, May…
April 2024 – London & Winchester
Compared to last month when we did just one, five week sit in the sleepy town of Horley, April was a whirlwind of activity. We managed to squeeze in three…
March 2024 – Horley
Gatwick to Horley We have not had a permanent address now for almost three years. Generally, we have embraced this well and, so far, it has brought us very few…
February 2024 – Fuerteventura
We often mention to each other that since becoming full-time pet and house sitters we haven't taken any 'proper' holidays ourselves! The reason for this is, as we are constantly…
January 2024 – Brighton & Hove
Happy 2024! We arrived in Brighton last month and were enjoying our stay. We have been doing one long, six-week house sit that has taken us well into January. That…
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…