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Housesitting in our sixties – Discovering a new lifestyle
June and Mark Spindloe a semi-retired couple tell us about ‘Housesitting in our sixties’. They describe housesitting as a natural step after years of parenting, working and traveling to visit with family across the world. Becoming location independent and exchanging…
With housesitting – you never quite know what to expect!
WINNER OF THE 2016 NEW VOICES BLOG COMPETITION Mike and Marion, a retired British couple from Tenbury Wells started housesitting only a few years ago. They thought that with their love of animals and experience of running their own small…
Last minute house-sitter Maidenhead UK
Once in a while we are asked to help in a crisis to find an emergency house-sitter or specialist pet-sitters within 24 hours. Recently one of our housesit adverts read – Last minute house-sitter Maidenhead. This usually occurs because someone…
How house-sitting enables my travel
Travel and house-sitting I’ve been travelling the world for a very long time now with my Mum, and one thing I really love is when we house-sit, especially the long ones, because it makes me feel like home. We have…
The bearable lightness of being stuff-free
A new perspective on being stuff-free It has become something of a cliche to bemoan the modern Western predilection for accumulating stuff. As Tyler Durden so eloquently puts it in Fight Club, ‘The things you own end up owning you’. We…
Making friends while housesitting
Making friends on a long term housesit For a number of years now I have chosen to look after property and pets (as a cost saving way) to travel the world. I’ve found that being a short term single visitor…
Marbella Family Fun! A vibrant expat community sharing tips on living in Costa del Sol
Where Expat families and residents of Marbella visit to find their information Families and expat families in particular visit MarbellaFamilyFun.com because it offers the very latest on all there is to see and do on the Costa del Sol, as…
Long term house-sitting near Kiev – Part 3
Settling into the Long term house-sitting :- When accepting a Long term house-sitting or pet-sitting assignment anywhere in the world, you need to consider your readiness to live in an unfamiliar environment for an extended period, and what simple things…
Long Term Housesitting near Kiev – Part 2
House-sitter and independent traveler Edward accepts a Long term house-sitting near Kiev. The owner is selling her home and emigrating to Montenegro, she needed someone to live in the house until it is sold. This blog describes Edward’s arrival in…