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Welcome to the HouseSit Match Blog
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.
Housesitting family – Travel more, for less!
Karen and Cam King sold their home in Victoria Australia 18 months ago to start a world tour with their two children to become a housesitting family. Cam was a chef on an oil rig, and Karen ran a cake…
Expat homeowner: housesitting helps at home
From time to time we ask our homeowners what drove them to seek a housesitter, and how does housesitting help them manage their property. A new expat homeowner recently joined HouseSitMatch looking for a long term sitter (10 months) to…
Travel to enjoy ‘the unexpected miracle of life’
The joy of travel can offer unexpected surprises, each destination with its own hidden secrets, some unexpectedly stunning, some unexpectedly affordable. Sometimes, there is nothing you read about your destination that can really prepare you for what you can discover…
Repositioning cruise: travels best secret
The secret of traveling the seven seas is not as many think the location of Atlantis, but the routes and access to the best repositioning cruise! What’s a repositioning cruise..? Well may you ask! It’s a way that some clever travelers…
Poland Affordable Travel
If you’re a keen traveler and always looking for new affordable travel experiences, housesitting, pet-sitting or otherwise, blogs drawn from real life travel can become a great source of inspiration and timely information. At HouseSitMatch we are keen to share…
Pet travel – HouseSitMatch Vet’s 3 Top Tips
Our HouseSitMatch Veterinary consultant Dr Matthew Bayliss BVSc MRCVS helps us to understand current advice for pet travel from and into the UK. Let’s face it, even through we may prefer to have housesitters pet-sitting in our home taking care…
New Start-ups in the Sharing Economy
Since our launch and finding ourselves squarely in the Sharing Economy we have drawn inspiration from other start-ups operating in this space. And every year since the launch of the FT Summit on the Sharing Economy we have taken our…
New housesitter tries petsitting in Marlow
New housesitter Nick Caley shares his first week’s petsitting diary. A first time housesitter Nick followed advice given by HouseSitMatch his housesitting network, and after several chats to get to know the owner he traveled to the ‘sit’. He describes…
Game show or housesitting – the same & yet different
Many house-sitters spend time watch tv, perhaps a game show, or day dream occasionally wherever they are sitting thinking about how they could pet sit or housesit somewhere more exotic, more exciting, perhaps even life changing like a Caribbean island…