Europe
Travel costs – how much did we spend in July/Aug/Sept 2019
October 14, 2019How much have our travel costs been so far this year? This post is a continuation of previous posts from earlier this year documenting our travel expenses for the first quarter and second quarter. During July, August and September we completed house sits in Germany, Scotland, France and the USA. We also scheduled in some […]
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Travel costs – how much did we spend in Apr/May/June 2019
July 19, 2019This post continues on from the report we did earlier in the year documenting our travel first quarter travel costs. April, May and June saw us complete our Trans-Atlantic cruise between Miami and Rome and then do 4 house sits in the UK, France and Germany. We also had a few breaks from house sitting […]
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April 2018 – A wedding, Frankfurt and Spain
January 24, 2019The first two weeks of April saw us completing two house sits before continuing our travels overseas with a special Business Class flight! A few days prior to our departure we attended our niece’s wedding on an unseasonal and bitterly cold Autumn afternoon. Wedding’s are very special days and this one was no exception. However, […]
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Travel the world full time for less than $100 per day
August 26, 2018Introduction On 9th April 2017 we set off on our worldwide roving retirement having sold almost every possession we owned. We had taken an adult gap year (read about it here) during 2016 and had an idea of what our full year costs would be and budgeted accordingly. We had hoped that we could travel […]
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Rhine River Cruise and Cycle
August 6, 2018Ever wanted to cruise down the Rhine River in Germany viewing the castles on the vineyard covered hills? Come with us as we discover this magical area by boat and bicycle.
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Aigues Mortes and Flamingo’s
June 3, 2018The first part of this week was drab and dreary weather wise. A total contrast to the glorious weather we enjoyed at the same time here last year. However, we had a smile on our face when we were confirmed for a sit in Mexico in late October. Once the sun shined on Friday we […]
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Begur, Carcassonne and Provence
May 30, 2018I’m finding that writing a blog post takes too much time so I’m experimenting with doing a short weekly video review of our travels. In this first video I cover the week up to 28th May, 2018. Having spent the previous 3 weeks on a repeat house sit in Sant Feliu de Guixols on the […]
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It’s been a while
May 20, 2018My last post was January 28th, 2018 – almost 4 months ago!!! I’m not particularly happy or proud of that because there are so many things I’ve wanted to blog about. It’s just that, for those that have never done a blog, they take an inordinate amount of time to put together. We went back […]
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Our first six months as roving retirees…
October 17, 2017Six months into our new roving retirement and we are loving it. Having sold virtually all of our possessions we left Australia on April 9th, 2017 to pursue a new approach to life – full time, slow travel providing House Sitting services as a way to offset our travel costs. It’s now mid-October and […]
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Kings Landing aka Girona
September 22, 2017This was our third visit to Girona in the Catalan region of north-east Spain. Last year, whilst house sitting in Santa Christina d’Aro, we rode the 34kms each way on a blistering hot day (but that’s another story) and had a small taster of this magnificent medieval city. We returned a few days later in […]
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Travel costs – June 2017 (France and the UK)
July 9, 2017One of the reasons for doing this blog is to show people that it doesn’t have to cost a fortune to travel full time. Every month I’ll post a blog showing our total costs for the month and you can see how we’re going – here’s Junes totals.
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Avignon – a broken bridge and home of the Popes
July 6, 2017During our recent house sit in Provence, France we were fortunate to visit the UNESCO World Heritage site of Avignon. A spectacularly preserved medieval town on the Rhone River surrounded by it’s original fortified city walls.
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Our first week in Provence – Sommieres and French Bull Fighting
June 6, 2017Our first full week in the South of France and we’ve been busy little bees getting out and about enjoying all that this region has to offer – beautiful rolling hills, vineyards and medieval towns.
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Travel costs – the past month (well 23 days)
June 4, 2017One of the reasons for doing this blog is to show people that it doesn’t have to cost a fortune to travel full time. Every month I’ll post a blog showing our total costs for the month and you can see how we’re going.
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A walk in Andalusia – Ruta del Gollizno
May 31, 2017After dropping the home owners off at Granada airport at the start of our most recent house sit in Spain we decided to stop off at Moclin – a hillside village with a 14th century Moorish castle overlooking a valley towards the Sierra Nevada.
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We’re famous – well almost!!!
April 29, 2017“How can you afford to travel full time??” friends and family have asked us. Well, part of the answer is in an article
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What a year!!! (part 1)
January 1, 2017Who knew that as we set off on November 5th 2015 what a wonderful, exciting, adventurous, enlightening, educational year it would turn out to be for us.
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Medieval Villages of Catalonia
October 4, 2016Spain’s north eastern region of Catalunya is overflowing with ancient medieval villages. On yet another glorious September day we took the car out to discover and explore what they had to offer.
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The Volcanoes of La Gorratxa
September 29, 2016Our last week on the Costa Brava saw us venturing further afield and heading inland, north west of Girona, to visit the Parc Natural de la Zona Volcànica de la Garrotxa. This park contains 40 volcanic cones, 20 basalt lava flows and numerous small medieval villages.
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Preparing for our Excellent Adventure…
November 10, 2015Glenn, for many years, has had romantic ideas about spending 6 months living in a sugar cube house on a Greek Island and the remainder of the year living in Australia.
“It will never work! How can we afford it? Won’t we get bored? What about our house, jobs?” was my response.