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Category: Travel Tips and Advice
Travel tips and Advice
International Housesitting – A Guide to Housesitting Worldwide.
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, along with the many benefits of house and pet sitting for both homeowners and sitters. We also examined the downside of housesitting. As we say in...
International House Sitting-Stretch Your Travel Budget & Upgrade Your Trip
As of mid-2019, Tim and I will have been travelling the world for around 13 of the last 23 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 explained away because we mainly travelled in developing countries where the cost of...
Oman – A Road Trip
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 ambled like zombies through immigration where the local staff were obviously very proud...
Niggle Time in Negombo
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 conference presentations. It’s a 6hr trip in the van with a short lunch break, so the bus would’ve...
Trincomalee – Tourists in Tamil Town
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 Horowupotana on Highway 12, about 60kms from Trinco (as the locals call it). From there you only need...
Anuradhapura – Hot and Holy
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! Janaka dropped us at Dambulla’s street-side bus stop and we didn’t have to wait long to...
Dambulla/Sigiriya – For those about to Rock!
We took the smaller, AC bus from the bus station at Kandy (360Rps ea) and began the slow procession out of Kandy and its surrounding districts. We found ourselves still going down to the north, central plains from Kandy, although at a much slower descent. The countryside was lush with rice paddies and thick stands of palm trees. The road...
Kandy – Sweet’n’Sour
Arriving 20mins early, we secured seats on the bus and we were soon heading out of Nuwara Eliya and just beginning to realise the extent of the golf course. The ride is a spectacular 2hr descent, winding down an endless series of switchbacks and hairpin bends that the bus was only just able to negotiate. Tea plantations and tiny roadside...
A Colonial Hamlet – Nuwara Eliya
On arrival in town from our early morning jaunt to Horton’s Plains and onward to Nuwara Eliya, we were swiftly greeting by the Victoria Inn manager as he loaded our bags into an awaiting van. He seemed a bit anxious and the only explanation he’d give us is that the hotel was fully booked. I began to see red very...
