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Add Budapest to your Bucket List

My younger sister messaged me “Budapest is on my bucket list!”. And it had been in mine too.  Maybe sister’s think alike? Firstly – it is pronounced “budda – pesht”. So practice that now.  Got it? Good. We can go on. We have been here in Budapest housesitting – about 20 km out.  Catching up on […]

Exploramum and Explorason are featured for Family Housesitting

We have been house-sitting and traveling around the world for more than 2 years. Here is an article I just found that includes us – way back when we started in Fiji. Housesitting really is a family adventure. They talk about Family Housesitting and show us way back at the start of our journey. It […]

Travel The World To Places Just Like Me !

Sponsored Post  Why I Created Home Sitters Worldwide – by Francien Daniels-Webb If only I had a dollar for every time someone asked me, “What do you do?  Why do you pet and home sit?” I’ll let you in on the answer! Because I LOVE it! I love the lifestyle.  I love the people, and the […]

Top Ten Travellers Troubles and Triumphing Through Them

Traveling is fantastic, but things can go wrong. We know because we have experienced so many challenges of late. So we are going to share our top ten travel troubles, and help you to triumph through them. This is our third year of travel and our 47th country.  That means, we have experienced a LOT of […]

Crazy three week road trip around Eastern Europe – Pt 2

Continued from Part one – you can read that here first if you missed it We find ourselves back traveling through Serbia again, and we head northeast. This is one of the prettiest border crossings so far – over the river.  Then onto Romania to a gorgeous town called Orsova for two nights. We book […]

An interview with Exploramum on Romania

We hope you enjoy this wonderful read about our adventures exploring along the road less traveled -in Romania. Thanks to the Selim family for the interview http://selimfamily.com/2015/01/31/off-the-beaten-path-travels-in-romania/ Questions and Comments  What do you make of my recent interview with Romania? Do you find it inspiring? Do share your comments with us below. Check out these […]

More Dash than Cash but very Flash

When we decided to come to Serbia to celebrate my 53rd birthday, we were delighted when we found the amazing Dash Star Hotel that is just out of the main center of Novi Sad, Serbia – but only 5 minutes by car into the thriving little city. We parked outside in their private car park […]

Interview – Exploramum and Mom with Backpack

 Interview – Exploramum and Mom with Backpack In our first year after we started our journey, we heard from a lady in Italy who was following our blog. We became Facebook friends. And, we chatted every now and then on messenger. When we told her of our plans to come to Italy, she and her […]

A Bed of Surprises in Belgrade Serbia

It has been a bit of a surprise that we found ourselves back in Serbia (we visited for one night last year), and even more so, heading to Belgrade.  We really hadn’t planned it all that well – in truth, we hadn’t really even planned it! So when we contacted Rentastan, we were really pleased […]

Spending Sunday in the Salubrious Sisley Spa in Serbia

Spending Sunday in the Salubrious Sisley Spa in Serbia This week was my 53rd birthday, and it turned out to be a great week, and it was going to end perfectly. It started with us driving from the top northern border of Romania, through Hungary and ending up in Novi Sad for a few days. […]

Authentic Serbian Experience near Belgrade Serbia

About thirteen kilometers from downtown Belgrade in Serbia is a hidden gem called Hotel Sucevic. Set in the hillsides of Avala you will find something unexpected. There are two main buildings set in a beautiful garden environment, just a short drive from the bypass. The Hotel Sucevic has a great choice of rooms and suites, from small […]

Celebrating in Style on Novi Sad Serbia

Last year we traveled through Serbia at lightning speed. In fact, it was all of 24 hours with a quick, but wonderful stay. But we had a taste of Serbia. And this taste of wonderful Serbian hospitality and friendship made us want to come back for more. So for this reason, we decided to choose […]