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Category Archives: Animals
Have Dog, will Travel
My Top tips for travelling/house-sittiing with your own pet. Continue reading
Posted in Animals, house-sitting, travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Housesitting, Housesitting with own pet, Somerset, travel, Travel UK, Travel with pet, Wiltshire
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She is most definitely worth many Tuppences…
Here it is then, the long-awaited news about our new family addition, puppy named Tuppence. She is six-months old now. Sire, pictured below, the fabled blue mini JRT, Louie, of Much Wenlock; dam the even-more-fabled patterjack, Faith, of Herefordshire. Late … Continue reading
Artists, Saucy Boxes, and Konik Ponies
What do artists, Konik ponies and saucy boxes have in common? Read my blog to find out. Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Art
Tagged Andro de Jong, Dies Janssen, Els Crum, Karin Bucholtz, Lent, Nijmegen, Open studio, visual arts
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Farewells in 2020
It’s been a strange year. There’s been the pandemic to cope with, I’ve had some mental health struggles, we have bought a new house in Nijmegen and plan to leave Amsterdam in the new year. As if that wasn’t enough … Continue reading
First House-sit of the Year
Unless you are a Buddha living under a tree you will have noticed we are in the grip of a pandemic which has severely restricted our freedom of movement. It now seems like some distant dream when we could move … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, lifestyle, travel, Uncategorized
Tagged buddhism, France, Hotel Le Stelsia, house-sitting, Jacques Bru, Lot et Garonne, penne d'agenais, Philippe Gestet, River Lot
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Sailing along the Amsterdam Canals
Dear readers, I promised you a blog about Amsterdam and here it is! You might remember that Frank and I are OOPOEHs. Omas en Opas Passen Op Een Huisdier, which translates into the rather unflattering; Grandpas and Grandmas look after … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Amsterdam boat trip, Amsterdam canals, Amsterdam tourism, Boats4rent, day trip Amsterdam, Oopoeh, travel
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All Good Things…
After two months of house-sitting it is sadly almost time to go home again. We’ve travelled through Hertfordshire, Nottinghamshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Cheshire, Leicestershire and spent the last two weeks in the smallest county in England, Rutland. … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, lifestyle, travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Animals, British food, house-sitting, Peak District, pet-sitting, pets, Rutland, travel, Visiting England
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Llamas, Outrageous Wealth and The Black Death
It’s a first! pet-sitting llamas in deepest Peru, I mean deepest Hertfordshire. Continue reading
Posted in Animals, history, lifestyle, travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Aldwick village, black death, hertfordshire, home counties, house-sitting, llamas, plague village, Rothschilds, tourism england, tring, waddesdon manor
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Coffee, Cake and Furry Friends #catcafe #jippies #haarlem
Haarlem is so close to Amsterdam that Frank and I often go there for a day trip. It’s much more civilised than Amsterdam. The Red Light District there is quite small which means it doesn’t attract the amount of low … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Food, travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Cat café, Day trip from Amsterdam, haarlem, Jippies Katten café
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