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Italy’s Stunning Abruzzo Region
What It’s Like to Housesit in Atri, Italy We spent 3 weeks of August, 2023 housesitting just outside the picturesque hilltop village of Atri. Atri lies in Italy’s stunning Abruzzo region east of Rome, across the mountains on the Adriatic coast. There is so much to see, do, and eat in this area, although we…
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Exploring Buckinghamshire
What it’s like to housesit in “Bucks” We spent a lot of time in England over the past two summers (2022 and 2023). As many of you know, we travel through housesitting. Purely because of the concentration of people in London and the surrounding counties, a LOT of sits pop up in Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Bedfordshire,…
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Scotch Whisky Delight: Our Glen Garioch Distillery Tour Experience
There are a lot of people who consider Scotch Whisky one of the great pleasures in life. While housesitting in the UK, we were incredibly lucky to catch up with some friends from Aberdeenshire, Scotland. They treated us to an amazing Glen Garioch Distillery Tour, which was a great way to catch up with friends…
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Beautiful Hampshire, England
… What it’s like to housesit in rural Hampshire We just got to housesit in beautiful Hampshire, England. We are full-time house sitters, without a home base of any kind. Sometimes housesits don’t align perfectly. This past week, for example, we had a week’s gap between longer housesits, and had to search out for shorter…
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Renting a Car in England?
5 Things to Consider when deciding whether to rent a car in the UK
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Top 4 Things to See in North and Central Yorkshire
What It’s Like to Housesit in … Danby, North Yorkshire Last updated: In late November 2022, we were lucky enough to land a housesit in Danby, which is actually located in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park. It’s a small village (less than 1500 population) that is in the Scarborough District, so also close to…
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A Day in Concord, Massachusetts
Yesterday, we took a day trip from Boston to the lovely historic town of Concord, Massachusetts. It’s only a 30 minute drive from our trusted housesitting assignment here so we grabbed the opportunity! Concord the location of “the shot heard around the world” that started the American Revolution back in 1775. This site uses affiliate…
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A Beautiful Provence Village: Correns, France
We spent a month house sitting in the South of France. Here’s what it was like.
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The Isle of Avalon
One of the great perks of housesitting is the opportunity to travel and discover. Our current sit is in the southern part of the county of Somerset. The little village is only a 40 minute drive from Glastonbury where Glastonbury Tor is located! It was not a perfect winter’s day, quite cold and blustery, but…