by timshazz | Jun 4, 2019 | House and Pet-Sitting, Travel Tips and Advice
Hopefully, you’ve already read Part 1 of our series on housesitting – International Housesitting – How to stretch your travel budget and upgrade your trip. In it, we explained: What housesitting is all about The many benefits of house and pet sitting for both...
by timshazz | May 11, 2019 | Travel Tips and Advice
The Good Life… As of2026, Tim and I will have been traveling the world for around 20 of the last 30 years. Even before we started international house sitting, people wondered how we could afford to ‘retire’ as early as we did. In the early days, that could be...
by timshazz | Apr 9, 2019 | Destinations, Travel Tips and Advice
The brand-spanking new airport in Muscat was a fine sight indeed for the two weary travellers. We’d been on the go for the last day, having departed Maafushi in the Maldives in a speedboat and then onto 3 different planes from Mali, Colombo and then Dubai. We...
by timshazz | Apr 9, 2019 | Destinations, Travel Tips and Advice
Amazing sunset on Negombo Beach After our little “Roadside” bus excursion the other day, we decided to fork out for a van to return from Trincomalee to Negombo to pick up our friend Teresa and so that Sharyn could take her plane back to Australia for her...
by timshazz | Apr 9, 2019 | Destinations, Travel Tips and Advice
Uppuveli Beach, Trincomalee Over breakfast, and after some study of the bus timetables, we decided to link a couple of buses up from Anuradhapura rather than wait till 11.50am for the express bus to Trincomalee. Buses depart more often for the small junction town of...
by timshazz | Apr 9, 2019 | Destinations, Travel Tips and Advice
At breakfast Poala and Bruno gave us their address and contact details back home in Italy (we’d given our card earlier). It’d certainly be worthwhile catching up with them as they aren’t that far from our rellies in the north either. Travel is great!...