Essential garden tools – The garden hose reel
If you’re a homeowner with a garden, or manage a plot of land like an allotment you’ll have tools. The essential garden tools can be a personal list, however, there are few items that are really helpful. The garden hose reel can be overlooked, but living without it is literally a drag. Here are some […]
UK Staycation – The places to search
It’s that time of year when we all start yearning for a change of scene. A little holiday some rather beckons. This year perhaps a little more than usual we find ourselves looking for that little cottage by the sea. Some of our clients told us they’ve started booking petsitters through Housesitmatch to get ahead […]
Brexit Update for Travelling Pet Owners
If you are a pet owner and want to travel either to Europe from the UK or from Europe to the UK read this Brexit update. We have gone through the government websites to ensure you have the right information. If you are a British Passport holder travelling to your second home in Eurozone then […]
Travel Hacks: See The World for 70% Less Than Staying at Home
We love to share the great travel tips we hear in our housesitting community. In this blog we share some extraordinary travel hacks from long term international travellers and housesitters Nat n Jodie. Travel Hacks for Affordable Long Term Travel Every year, it seriously never ceases to amaze us, that even though we travel internationally […]
Long term travel and the leap of faith!
Long term travel has always preoccupied travel agents Dianne and Mike. This year they finally took the plunge, they sold everything, upped sticks in Canada leaving family and friends to travel slowly across the world. A life long dream of journeying to discover the world one country at a time through slow travel, and living […]
Asia a ‘rich budget travel’ experience
Last year our first student intern Ellie said farewell to our office on completing her internship determined to experience budget travel, ideally to try house-sitting and to see more of the world. All our housesitting assignments and travelers’ tales had given her a taste for travel. Twelve months later she has sent us a blog […]
Our pets chose us and our unusual cave home in Spain
Our pets chose us and our unusual home We have pets, or rather we have been adopted by a number of pets, four cats and one dog to be precise. All of them chose us and our home to share their lives. We love our pets, but actually we were quite surprised to have been […]
Top tip for affordable travel and free accommodation – Try house-sitting!
Ellie our student intern, now graduated, reflects on her impending traveling adventure and offers some top tips for others considering a long term trip and needing affordable travel. Affordable travel and free accommodation through house-sitting and pet-sitting Becoming a new graduate is exciting and challenging all at the same time, not only do you have to […]
House-sitting Intern Discovers Affordable Travel
House-sitting as a means of Affordable Travel I have travelled the world as a student, camping, back-packing and youth hosteling, latterly discovering house-sitting as a green and affordable way to travel.Then in my final year at Uni I joined HouseSitMatch.com a new ‘start-up’ as their first intern, and that’s when I really began to discover […]
House-Sitting and Sustainable Travel
What is Sustainable Travel? Is house-sitting sustainable or green travel? Sustainable and responsible tourism is a phrase that has become very popular in the past few years. But why has it become such a big issue? And how is house-sitting related? It’s estimated that 7 out of 10 people in the UK take a short […]
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