Category: Travel tips

  • Maximize your space and organize your bags with packing cubes

    Maximize your space and organize your bags with packing cubes

    Do you have a packing system? Have you tried packing cubes? My mother swore by packing everything as absolutely flat as possible to maximize space and potentially minimize wrinkles. When I started packing for our family of four, I decided that rolling up all our clothes was a better way. Both of these systems have…

  • Fill Gaps Between Housesits

    Fill Gaps Between Housesits

    Not all house sitters are full time. But there are many, like us, who have chosen to be fully nomadic, arranging our accommodation almost exclusively through housesits. We tend to plan a few months ahead by securing some longer (2+ week) housesits. But how do we fill gaps between housesits? How do we minimize nights…

  • Save Money in England this summer with these Membership Cards

    Save Money in England this summer with these Membership Cards

    Visiting England this summer? Do you love the idea of English gardens, parklands, historical sites, and stately homes and manors? Here’s one of our best travel tips to save money in England with membership cards: whether you are visiting for two weeks or 6 months, here are 3 membership cards that as we, as trusted…

  • Renting a Car in England?

    Renting a Car in England?

    5 Things to Consider when deciding whether to rent a car in the UK

  • A Beautiful Provence Village: Correns, France

    A Beautiful Provence Village: Correns, France

    We spent a month house sitting in the South of France. Here’s what it was like.