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Our blogs are stories shared by our housesitting team, and members who have benefited from the affordable travel, home and pet care made possible through our membership network. We hope you enjoy the blogs. Please take a moment to leave your feedback.
2017 Housesitting Blog Competition FINALIST 2
Each year HouseSitMatch hosts a Blog Competition and this year our entries are better than ever. Here we share with you the Housesitting Blog Competition Finalist 2 Entry – Jacqueline and Glenn Lamb travel while they housesit around the world…
2017 Housesitting Blog Competition FINALIST 1
Each year HouseSitMatch hosts a Blog Competition and this year our entries are better than ever. Here we share with you the Housesitting Blog Competition Finalist 1 Entry – Angela Williams and her husband Frank travel while they housesit around…
Housesitters needed for pets in China
When a Welsh couple moved to China for a temporary job they did not expect to remain as Expats for a lengthy period. Two and a half years later they are established with a household full of rescued pets and…
New Blog Competition from HouseSitMatch
Enter our 2017 Blogging Competition Enter our 2017 Blogging Competition Theme – ‘This is what I have learned about housesitting…’ Tell us your fabulous stories in a blog, submit it to us by 1 December making sure to include your…
Bed and Breakfast in Oxford University – Yes really!
Bed and breakfast in St Hugh’s College – Oxford’s Secret Garden Bed and breakfast in Oxford – is it something you might consider? Ever thought about visiting St Hugh’s College, Oxford? Good friends Kathy and Inka wanted a weekend city…
Cheap accommodation: a comparison of today’s options
Which type of cheap accommodation is best? In today’s online world there are lots of options when it comes to finding cheap accommodation. The internet has enabled all manner of search tools across the world, whether you are looking for…
Petsit bookreview ‘The Wall’ by M.Haushofer
This petsit book review draws on the mysterious and powerful link between reading and travelling and indeed housesitting. It’s not just about filling the hours of a long journey or being occupied in periods of waiting. A good book takes your…
Housesitting Home-maintenance – Expert Top Tips!
Pre or post housesitting, home-maintenance is an area of work some of us love and other hate. Actually, I probably fall into the camp of any time of year home-maintenance phobic fear. A home with pets living indoors offers another…
Housesit book review: ‘How to be Idle’ by Tom Hodgkinson
A housesit assignment can inspire one to read voraciously. Recent graduate Nick became a housesitter after University, and that’s when among other books he read ‘How to be Idle’, while on the housesit assignment. In this book review, Nick shares…