I am English and my husband Tom is Scottish we emigrated to Australia 11 years ago.  Having sold our business and taken early retirement we spent time renovating our family home.  We sadly lost own dog Nessie (aged 16 and a half) and one of our closest friends to cancer in 2010 and we decided that now was the time to do something we had always wanted to do and travel the world (well life is just too short!), so In 2011 we decided to rent out our home, put our furniture in storage and headed off into the wide blue yonder and follow our dreams (and the sun).  

 

We spent a year or so travelling around Europe and then headed over to the Caribbean (we have a son over there, so this was a great excuse to explore the islands).  However, we soon came to realise that to continue to do what we loved doing we would need to look at other ways to be able to do this.  The financial constraints of living in hotels and the impersonal aspect of travelling this way had really started to wan.  We were really starting to miss having the comforts of home and people and animals in our lives.

 

A friend of ours in Australia had house sat Down Under and suggested that we look into this as an option.  I decided to devote some time to researching house/pet sitting.  After visiting websites and reading several books I decided this was definitely worth looking into....the rest as they say is history!