What Is House Sitting And How Do You Get Started?
What is house sitting, why you should consider it as a means of seeing the world, and how to find your first housesit – a beginner’s guide
House Sitting in France, Spain & Portugal: A Pandemic Tale
It was meant to be our year for an extended road trip through western Europe, housesitting along the way. But 2020 turned into a pandemic tale of lockdowns, closed borders and ever-changing plans…
Preparing For A Hurricane – A House Sitter’s Guide
You’re house sitting in the tropics and a potential Category 5 hurricane is heading your way? How do you prepare? Based on our life-changing experience surviving Hurricane Irma in 2017, here’s our guide to help you make the right decisions…
Housesitting For Beginners – How To Be The Perfect Sitter
What is housesitting, why you should consider it as a means of seeing the world, and how to find your first housesit – a beginner’s guide
5 Random Things We’ve Learned From House Sitting
From flooded bedrooms and being locked out of the house to forever regretting teaching the parrot a new phrase – here are the top five lessons we’ve learned from housesitting…
What’s It Like To Housesit In Rural France?
Everything you need to know about housesitting in the magnificent French countryside…
What’s It Like To Travel And Mind Other People’s Pets?
Or how we’ve managed to combine travel and pet sitting to explore South West France…
House Sitting – An Alternative Way To See The World
Living like a local, learning the language, feeding the cat…
About Ian & Nicky
We're an English couple who've set out on a voyage of discovery around the world. While this blog is designed as a permanent record of what we see, think and do, we hope it will also provide information and inspiration for other travellers. In the meantime, please feel free to pour yourself a glass of something suitably chilled and take a look around....