Sadly our time at our first house sit on this Slow Explore has come to an end. It really has been such an incredibly pretty area to explore, and we have been so lucky with lovely home owners Jane and Andy,...

Our first housesit involved looking after three dogs in the Salies de Bearn area (France) for nearly three weeks. We loved the dogs with their distinct personalities. Alfie the oldest, was very loving,...

Saint-Jean-de-Pied-Port (SJPP) is a very beautiful town a few minutes’ drive from the France-Spain border. It sits in the Pyrenean foothills and is the old capital of the traditional Basque province of...

Adu is a mad geocacher 😊 He has found over 3500 geocaches to date!  It is absolute his main hobby and love .. after me 😊 Geocaching can be defined as a hunt for a hidden treasure using GPS co-ordinates....

On one of our day trips we decided to visit Saint-Jean-de-Luz. It’s a very pretty fishing town not far from the Spanish border. It has a lovely walkway alongside the fishing boats. Its most famous guest...

Today (13 October) has been a very frustrating day! Firstly it was very foggy and cold so we decided to only take the dogs walking a bit later. Of course one gets too involved in other things, (like booking...

Whilst house sitting we made short trips to two nearby towns, Salies de Bearn and Navarreux The small town of Salies owes its fame to the discovery of salt. A wild boar was found next to a spring with...

Where is Bordeaux? Bordeaux is a port city on the river Garonne in the Girdonde department of Southwestern France. Bordeaux is a thriving, busy young city. It has a population of 257 804 people....

A crucial document for traveling around France is the Passe Sanitaire. This document has a built in QR code of your Covid vaccinated status and is essential to be able to travel on public transport and...

Its Saturday 3rd October 2021. We are off on our big adventure. To slow explore wherever we go. We fly to Paris via Johannesburg. Then we connect onto Bordeaux. Our first housesit is in Salies de Bearn...