Retirement
Is Australia expensive to travel in – our 2020 nomadic travel costs
January 24, 2021Is a year in Australia more expensive than travelling overseas for the same time period? Over the past few years I have documented in various blogs how affordable it is to travel the world full-time. At the start of 2020 I decided not to continue doing this as I felt I had published enough real […]
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The phone call you never want to receive
December 20, 2020We were expecting June 2020 to be another relaxing month under lockdown. Enjoying the winter sunshine and wonderful view over the Maroochydore River on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. Instead, it turned out to be, probably, the most stressful, emotional, turbulent, confusing and challenging time of our lives. This post details a personally challenging […]
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Preparing for family loss as a Nomad
December 18, 2020One inescapable fact of life is that none of us is going to live forever. When we started our nomadic, house sitting lifestyle back in 2015 my dad was 83 and Jacqueline’s parents edging close to 70. So, before embarking on our travels we had to face the reality that at some point in time […]
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2019 in review – how much did we spend?
January 3, 2020Well, it’s the end of another year and time to review our travel budget and travel costs for the year just gone. I’ve crunched the numbers and would you believe that we traversed 11 countries across the globe this year for only $33,088.26 – that’s just $90.56 a day for 2 people. Read on to […]
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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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New York travel tips
October 8, 2019Our 3 week trip to New York in September 2019 was a fantastic experience. We learned many things whilst there and have distilled our best New York travel tips for you below. They should prove beneficial and save you time and money. The subway/metro The New York subway system is fast, safe and efficient. To […]
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New York, New York
October 6, 2019I’ve always wanted to return to New York ever since my first, and only, visit in 1986. 1986 was the year I took my first ever overseas trip backpacking with a mate around the world for 4 months. Our ticket took us in a westerly direction from Australia through Asia, Europe, the USA and back […]
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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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Travel expenses for the first 3 months of 2019
April 19, 2019I’ve tried different ways of documenting our travel expenses over the past 3 years with differing levels of success. So I’ve and decided that the best way forward is to produce a quarterly summary every 3 months. Here’s what we did, where we went and our expenses for the first 3 months of 2019. These […]
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A day exploring Teotihuacan
April 15, 2019I’ve always been fascinated by ancient civilisations and the monuments they’ve constructed over the millenia and centuries. Our visit to Mexico City presented an opportunity too good to miss to spend a day exploring Teotihuacan. This is the site of the Mesoamerican pyramids that are a one hour bus ride (and approx. 50 kilometres) north […]
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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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March 2018 – Australia
January 8, 2019Having concluded our Asian sojourn we returned to our hometown – Melbourne, in mid-February. Our return was to honour a commitment we’d made a few years earlier to a dear friend that had asked us to pet sit her two little doggies. As chance would have it our niece was getting married in mid-April so […]
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Monarch Butterflies – A Winter Holiday in Mexico
January 6, 2019Introduction Millions of Monarch Butterflies make an epic journey every year from the USA and Canada to Central Mexico. I had seen this natural spectacle on one of Sir David Attenborough’s natural history documentaries for the BBC many years earlier and it had always fascinated me. Whilst investigating how to fill in a two week […]
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February 2018 – Ancient Kingdoms and Modern Metropolises
January 2, 2019February was a very busy month as we travelled to, and through, 4 countries – Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia. The ancient Khmer Kingdom of Angkor Wat has been on my bucket list for as long as I can remember so I was very excited that we were finally going to see this architectural wonder. […]
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2018 in Review
January 1, 2019A New Year generally starts with a reflection of the previous year and in our case this was no different. What was surprising to us though were the “figures” that accompanied that review. To be frank – they were quite staggering. We never imagined that over the course of 2018 we would have visted 16 […]
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2 days in Guadalajara
December 3, 2018We had a few days to fill in between house sits in Ajijic, Mexico. The second largest city in Mexico – Guadalajara, is just an hours bus ride away so we decided to spend 2 days in Guadalajara.
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Living an adventurous roving retirement
November 10, 2018We really are blessed with the wonderful lifestyle that we enjoy. Travelling the world and seeing wondrous things are just part of our ‘normal’ roving retirement life. On occasions we are able to write about some of the things we’ve done and have articles published in magazines. In November, we had another article published in […]
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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 […]
Read More6 months down – how much has it cost??
November 19, 2017We recently celebrated 6 months since starting our roving retiree lifestyle on 9th April 2017 and thought it would be great to see and share how much it has cost. We think you’ll be amazed at just how much this lifestyle costs.
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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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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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