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Tips for Being a Full-Time Housesitter

You are hoping to be a full-time housesitter, which is great! It’s a good way to travel, but the job requires you to change the way you do things, and the following tips should help you become a full-time sitter. Tips for Being a Full-Time Housesitter Learn to Love Pets One way of increasing the […]

Top 5 Reasons Why You Need A House Sitter

The hardest decision in a pet lover’s life is when he/she has to leave their pet under the care of someone else as she/he travels away – be it for work or for a holiday. Some homeowners choose to trust their pets with family members, while others opt for housesits or kennels. However, you might […]

Why House Sitting is the Perfect Vacation for Travelling Students

As you’ll know from reading this blog, house sitting is something we love to do. It’s a great way to explore the world, whilst enjoying a home-from-home experience. Thousands of people housesit every year, but if you are a student, this could be the perfect way to explore the world – and here’s why. It […]

House Sitting In Paris – How To House & Pet Sit Around The World Like Us

Pinch me! We’re in Paris! Not only are we in Paris, but we are pet sitting AND house sitting in Paris too, and guess what is visible down our little street? The Eiffel Tower! Yes, Pinch me!  What a whirlwind experience to get here house sitting in Paris. We have waited for so long to return […]

Housesitting For A Healthy Lifestyle

We have been pet and housesitting our way around the world for the past four years. We sold our home and successfully traveled to 65 countries so far, and we are still going!  I guess it isn’t your average life for some, but it is certainly a life we love, and we’d like to tell you […]

“WINNER” of the 2015 ‘New Voices’ BLOG COMPETITION

“Ruth Johnston, (that’s ME !!), Australian travel writer and full-time housesitter, travels around the world with her son by housesitting, volunteering, and finding new and exciting locations for travel journalism. They find that housesitting saves them money and enables them to keep traveling around the world. In this our choice for the 2015 HouseSitMatch ‘New […]

House-sitting Enables Travel – By A Ten Year Old

Explorason loves traveling! In fact, he has been to 63 countries around the world, over the past three years. And in order for us to sustain our travels, we often house-sit. He loves house-sitting; he adores pets – especially dogs and loves having time to stop and relax. Here is his story …… How house-sitting […]

Executive and Luxury House sitting Professionals

They say ‘Your home is your castle’ – right? From humble homes to luxury mansions, homeowners all over the world need to leave their ‘castles’, and for a myriad of reasons, they take leave of absence of the place dearest to their heart. They leave behind their world treasures, their family heirlooms, their treasured memories, their […]

Never pay rent again! And travel the world. We tell you how.

Firstly – we have some great ways for you to reach this goal – to never pay rent again. So read on.  The secrets all be revealed. ………Many of you know we have been traveling the world and for a long time.  In fact, this is our third year. We get asked ALL THE TIME […]

Talking Turkey in Turkey with a Turkey whilst Housesitting

Talking Turkey in Turkey with a Turkey whilst Housesitting So this is Turkey-Lurkey. He is one BIG male turkey, and he lives in Turkey with over 20 – yes 20 – other animals we have come to house sit. Now looking after over 20 animals is in itself pretty unique, but what is really unique is […]

Free Italy Accommodation with Housesitting

  We find ourselves with an amazing opportunity for free Italy accommodation that we want to share with you. We find ourselves now traveling with just the 2 of us, and Explorafriend leaves us as she wanted to go to her family in Italy, so we dropped her onto a train in Rome. So our […]

Housesitting Resumé Exploramum

House sitting Resumé Who we are Professional and well respected house-sitting duo with many years of experience offering pet care and home care services for any clean and neat home. We have traveled the world to many continents and countries and house-sat and offered pet-care as we travel. I am a single 56-year-old mother of […]