During our 3,5 months overseas, I have made many observations on different things which I thought would be of interest. France has lots of tolls on its highways, especially in the South. They can be...

Bernkastel-Kues is a lovely picturesque town on the Mosel river not far from Trier. It is well known for its Christmas market. We went on the Sunday, the last day it was open and took Hector and Maple...

Our time in Trier was spent looking after two lovely dogs called Maple (female) and Hector (male). They were rescued at two weeks old on the streets of Borneo. They are brother and sister and love and...

We had a six-night gap between our Neuberg and Trier housesits. I put a post on the Facebook housesitting group asking other house sitters how they handled gaps between sits. At times of course a few days...

Trifels is another town that was recommended. It was about 30 minutes drive from where we stayed. It is set in a lovely forested area. The Imperial Castle is very well known, but we could not visit it...

One of the places recommended on TripAdvisor as a beautiful, quaint town in Southern Germany was Tübingen. It was over an hour drive from Neuberg so we set off after walking the dogs. The weather was very...

This housesit was for over two weeks to look after three French Bulldogs for Julie and Christian in Neuberg am Rhein. Neuberg is situated next to the huge Rhine river. In fact we had to change the setting...

We had a wonderful, peaceful time in Switzerland for a week. Danica lives in the loveliest house in a tiny town called Rafz, perched on the edge of some vineyards. We were about 35 minutes drive from Zurich....

Our second house sit was in Germany, in the town of Selbitz (population 4200) in NE Bavaria, up near the Czech border. We looked after a lovely Boxer called Yoshi. She was very sweet, and loved going for...

Friends of ours from Mooi River, South Africa own a house near Cordes sur Ciel, not far from Toulouse. When they heard that we would be house sitting in the South of France they said why didn’t we take...