Tag Archives: travel

Have Dog, will Travel

Posted on August 3, 2022 by susancarey

My Top tips for travelling/house-sittiing with your own pet. Continue reading →

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Balloon Flight over the Chateau

Posted on October 2, 2019 by susancarey

Frank and I celebrated our 33rd wedding anniversary in September. On our ninth house-sit of this year we decided to book a balloon flight. Paying for our accommodation in kind (offering pet care) means we free up cash which can … Continue reading →

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Sailing along the Amsterdam Canals

Posted on August 27, 2019 by susancarey

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 →

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All Good Things…

Posted on July 23, 2019 by susancarey

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 →

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Is it OK to trample on the tulips, in pursuit of the ultimate selfie?

Posted on April 25, 2019 by susancarey

We live in an era of narcissism fuelled by sites such as Facebook and Instagram. Many people post images of themselves amongst the tulip fields surrounding the famous spring gardens, de Keukenhof and this often involves traipsing through and destroying … Continue reading →

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Nostalgia and Spitfires in Bewdley

Posted on July 2, 2018 by susancarey

GIs, Tommies, civilians, landgirls and glamorous ladies were out in their glad rags strutting their stuff up and down the platform at a 1940s-themed event. How wonderful to be transported back to a simpler time when we didn’t have omnipresent, tyrannical technology at our heels. Continue reading →

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Tulips, skunk cabbage and the BFG meet in Yorkshire

Posted on April 19, 2018 by susancarey

On our second house-sit of the year looking after a cat and Koi fish in Yorkshire, the sun came out and because we probably won’t visit the Keukenhof this year (my husband isn’t a fan of the regimental neatness and … Continue reading →

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Love-lock Bridges in Amsterdam

Posted on January 9, 2018 by susancarey

Amsterdam is a romantic city, full of canals and pretty bridges isn’t it? So you would expect to see many, many more of those love-lock bridges around town. But no, we have only two, de Magere Brug (Skinny Bridge) and … Continue reading →

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Happy Christmas from Amsterdam!

Posted on December 18, 2017 by susancarey

It snowed here last week and I got caught in a storm on my way home through the Erasmus park in Amsterdam west. I was glad I was just five minutes away from a warm apartment and not slithering in … Continue reading →

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House-sit Number Four

Posted on October 30, 2017 by susancarey

In September a lovely English lady, Sally Christopher approached me via a home-exchange site to enquire if Frank and I would be interested in house-sitting her Eguzki B&B in Durango for 12 days. After establishing that the B&B was shut … Continue reading →

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