We have had an amazing adventure for 15 months. The map below gives a summary of where we travelled. It also shows how much we actually did!  The red pins are our 22 housesits. Where did we travel? Between...

In the 19th century, the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus was considered the largest pilgrimage center in Portugal. It lost some popularity because of the Apparitions of Fátima in 1917. The baroque church at...

Peneda-Gerês is the only national park in Portugal. It is known to be a place of incredible beauty and I am so pleased we took a few days out to explore it.  The terraced land reminded me a bit of...

The very cute photo of the youngsters on the cover of this blog post, and above, is courtesy of the Camara or municipality of Guimarães. The rest were all taken by me whilst we watched the festivities. The...

Guimarães is one of the finest historic cities in northern Portugal and is fondly regarded by the Portuguese as the birthplace of their country. It was here that the first Portuguese king (Afonso Henriques...

We spent ten days exploring Northern Portugal. Two nights were spent in Porto and Lisbon, but we did not explore either city. Our goal was to explore Northern Portugal and we rather spent three days in...

The Poetry cave (Grotte delle Poesia ) was known to be one of the best natural swimming places on the coast of Puglia.  In fact, it is included in the list of the 10 most beautiful natural pools in the...

Polignano a Mare is known as the Pearl of the Adriatic. When we arrived in Bari and were waiting for our train we had a chat to a Scottish lady married to an Italian, who mentioned three or four places...

The biggest thing about Italian food is the freshness of the ingredients. The tomatoes seem redder, the carrots seem more orange. I showed Adu what photos I wanted to include in this post and he laughingly...

We have been based just outside San Vito dei Normanni for the past month looking after two cats Moly and Socks. Adu has also kept the pool in sparkling good condition and mowed the front lawn twice. The...